Task Force on Knowledge Translation/Knowledge Value Mapping
Knowledge Value Mapping (KVM) is a conceptual tool for discussing and understanding the role of scientific research as a system of relationships among institutions, groups, practitioners, and consumers that give rise to social impacts. The Task Force on KT-KVM seeks to discuss and explicate the process of producing knowledge, using it, and enabling its use for a specific sector or area of NIDRR-sponsored disability or rehabilitation research. The Task Force will share information and consensus statements to assist the NCDDR and NIDRR research grantees better understand the role of scientific research in an intricate system of relationships among institutions, groups, practitioners, and consumers that give rise to social impacts.
Task Force Objectives
The task force is developing consensus/position statements regarding:
- use of the concept of knowledge value communities in dissemination and utilization of systematic reviews (Bozeman, 2003);
- considerations of "driving" and "restraining" forces in moving NIDRR-sponsored research results into public policy (Rogers & Bozeman, 2002);
- needs forevidence grading to be responsive to NIDRR's desire to address "end-users with limited scientific training [who], in particular, may need assistance in order to understand competing research claims or to determine the relevance of particular findings to their individual situations" (NIDRR, 2005); and
- knowledge mapping standards appropriate for each of NIDRR's targeted stages of knowledge development.
Task Force Members
- Meera Adya, Ph.D., Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University
- Mike Barcus, Ph.D., RRTC-VCU
- Peter Blanck, Ph.D., Burton Blatt Institute (BBI) at Syracuse University
- Margaret Campbell, Ph.D., NIDRR Planning and Evaluation
- Charles E. Drum, J.D., Ph.D., RRTC on Health & Wellness
- Marianne Farkas, Sc.D. - Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Frank Martin, M.S., Liaison from NCDDR
- Dennis Moore, Ed.D., SARDI - WSU School of Medicine
- Juan Rogers, Ph.D., (Facilitator) Georgia Institute of Technology
- Pimjai Sudsawad, Sc.D., NIDRR KT Program Coordinator Margaret Campbell, Ph.D., NIDRR Research Sciences Division
Former Members
- Jerry Parker, Ph.D., University of Missouri
- Terri Blankenship, RRTC-VCU
Selected References
Bozeman, B. (2000). Technology transfer and public policy: a review of research and Theory. Research Policy 29, 627-655.
Bozeman, B. (2003). Public value mapping of science outcomes: Theory and method. A monograph of the public value mapping project of the Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes. Retrieved August 22, 2005, from http://www.cspo.org/home/cspoideas/know-flows/Rockvol2-1.PDF
Bozeman, B., & Rogers, J.D. (2002). A churn model of scientific knowledge value: Internet researchers as a knowledge value collective. Research Policy 31(5), 769-794.
Kerner, J. F. (2006). Knowledge translation versus knowledge integration: A funder's perspective. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Profession, 26(1), 72-80.
Kingsley, G., Bozeman, B., & Coker, K. (1996). Technology transfer and absorption: An "R & D" value-mapping' approach to evaluation. Research Policy 25(6), 967-995.
Logan, J., & Graham, I. D. (1998). Toward a comprehensive interdisciplinary model of health care research use. Science Communication, 20(2), 227.
NCDDR (2005, August). What is knowledge translation? Focus: A Technical Brief 10. Austin, TX, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. Retrieved August 21, 2006, from http://www.ncddr.org/kt/products/focus/focus10
NIDRR (2005, July). Knowledge Translation Planning Panel: Summary of the June 9-10, 2005 Panel Meeting. Retrieved July 24, 2006, from http://www.ncddr.org/new/announcements/ktpanel_summary/index.html
Rogers, J.D., & Bozeman, B. (2001). Knowledge Value Alliances: An alternative to the R&D project focus in evaluation. Science, Technology & Human Values, 26(1), 23-55.
Sudsawad, P. (2007). Knowledge translation: Introduction to models, strategies, and measures. Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
