The research community focuses on conducting research with the purported goal of improving educational practice, yet the two communities largely remain disjointed. This chapter explores the major disconnects between research and practice from the perspectives of both the practice and the research communities, and we present strategies for establishing stronger connections based on the results of our literature analysis. We argue that examining the research–practice gap through the lens of absorptive capacity provides elucidations about the disconnects, and it facilitates the organization of research-based strategies. As a result, both communities are able to jointly determine what constitutes quality research evidence and attenuate the gap between research and practice.

研究社区专注于进行旨在提高教育实践水平的研究，但两个社区在很大程度上仍然脱节。本章从实践和研究团体的角度探讨了研究与实践之间的主要脱节之处，并根据我们的文献分析结果提出了建立更牢固联系的策略。我们认为，通过吸收能力的角度研究研究与实践之间的差距可以阐明这种脱节，并有助于组织基于研究的策略。结果，这两个社区能够共同确定什么构成了高质量的研究证据，并缩小了研究与实践之间的差距。