The paper presents the research –based education from the perspective of postgraduate students enrolled in Master and PhD programs public universities in Romania. The study aims to analyse the participants’ perceptions of the importance of their study programme on their professional development, to describe how participation in the study programme is integrated into their professional practice, and to examine the strategies used by students to enhance the impact of their research projects in their own work places. The method consists of a questionnaire administrated to students enrolled in the Faculties of Education of five research universities in Romania between 2012 and 2013. Most of the students are employed full-time in the educational system as teachers, administrators or educational advisors. A total of 161 students from Romanian Universities took part in the study. The results demonstrate that postgraduate students provide perhaps the major link between research conducted in and reported by faculties of education, and their own work in their educational workplaces. The results indicate that while the research topics of the master and PhD thesis arose out of workplace issue, their motivations for postgraduate studies were of a personal nature. A wide majority recognised that research conducted in universities had a personal impact on their works, improving their actions. Developing research projects at the work place involving both researchers and practitioners or publishing more research findings in the specialized journal and enhance the communication between researchers and practitioners were also reported as useful strategies facilitating the research transfer. Consequently their views and experiences constitute important information in any study of the impact of research on schools and schooling and of the research based education in teacher education programmes at university level.

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