Implementing Educational Innovations at Scale: Transforming Researchers Into Continuous Improvement Scientists
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Implementing Educational Innovations at Scale: Transforming Researchers Into Continuous Improvement Scientists
Abstract/Description
There is growing concern among researchers and governmental officials that knowing what works in education is important, but not enough for school improvement. Sound evidence alone is not sufficient for large-scale, sustainable change, both because practitioners may consider it irrelevant to their own problems of practice or run into challenges when they try to implement. Failed attempts at replicating positive outcomes in new (or simply expanded) settings underscore the need for a different relationship between research and practice, one that takes a systemic perspective on improvement and transforms the role for research. In this article, we describe the new science of improvement and where it sits in the evolution of research on education policy implementation. We discuss the roots of the approach as well as its key features. We explain how the work differs from that of traditional research and end with illustrations of this difference from our experiences with the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools.
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Date
In publication
Volume
29
Issue
1
Pages
257-277
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Methodological
Empirical
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Featured case/project
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Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
8959048
Grant funding
Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education
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Citation
Cohen-Vogel, L., Tichnor-Wagner, A., Allen, D., Harrison, C., Kainz, K., Socol, A. R., & Wang, Q. (2015). Implementing Educational Innovations at Scale: Transforming Researchers Into Continuous Improvement Scientists. Educational Policy, 29(1), 257-277. PAIS Index; Research Library. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904814560886
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