The Scholarship of Improvement: Building Community Around an Emerging Tradition of Practice-Focused Research
The objective of this structured poster session is to build community around the scholarship of improvement as an emerging tradition of practice-focused research. By the “scholarship of improvement”, we mean research focused on understanding and advancing continuous learning and improvement with the aim of strengthening the systems, resources, and practices that support students’ success in schools. The session is structured to showcase eleven examples of the scholarship of improvement. The posters detail new methods and measurement approaches supporting collaborative, continuous improvement; research-practice partnerships aimed at improving instruction, academic learning, and socio-emotional learning; the application of improvement methods in districts, turnaround zones, and state education agencies; and shifts in federal policy establishing the context for all of the preceding.
Official Session Summary (via AERA Annual Meeting 2019 Program)
Developing a System of Practical Measures, Routines, and Representations to Inform and Enhance Instructional Improvement Initiatives
Evidence for Improvement: An Integrated Approach
Applying Realist Methodology to the Study of Collaborative Capacity in Networked Improvement Initiatives
Randomized Trials and Improvement Modalities: Understanding the Federal Role in Education Research
Continuous Improvement "On the Ground": Lessons From Low-Performing Schools
Where's the Playbook? Common Curriculum and High School Turnaround
Where's the Playbook - Common Curriculum & High School Turnaround (Larbi-Cherif, 2019).pdf
Scaling Systemic Personalization Through Continuous Improvement: A Model for High School Reform
Get Started — Get Better: Using Improvement Cycles to Achieve State Systemic Improvement
Get Started — Get Better - Using Improvement Cycles to Achieve State Systemic Improvement (Ward, 2019).pdf
A Research-Practice Partnership to Transform Mathematics
Improvement Science Applied to Teaching: Cases From a Randomized Trial of Fractions Lesson Study
Improvement Science Applied to Improving College Courses: Learning From 17 Years of Work
Systems Thinking in Education Special Interest Group (SIG)
Peurach, D. J., & Russell, J. L. (2019). The Scholarship of Improvement: Building Community Around an Emerging Tradition of Practice-Focused Research. AERA Annual Meeting. http://tinyurl.com/y7hm68ar
Introducing Improvement Research in Education