Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement
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Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this analysis is to reconsider organizational replication as a strategy for large-scale school improvement: a strategy that features a "hub" organization collaborating with "outlet" schools to enact school-wide designs for improvement. To do so, we synthesize a leading line of research on commercial replication to construct a "knowledge-based logic" focused on the production, use, improvement, and retention of effective practices in large numbers of schools. Drawing on findings from a longitudinal case study, we then use the knowledge-based logic to structure an interpretation of Success for All, a leading comprehensive school reform program. In contrast to common assumptions of organizational replication as a strategy that yields rapid results at the expense of local and professional control, we argue that organizational replication can be understood as a long-term enterprise in which program providers and schools collaborate to produce, use, improve, and retain practical knowledge. Capitalizing on this potential, however, is contingent on both proponents and critics re-examining common assumptions about organizational replication and recognizing value in replication enterprises that they would otherwise miss.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
13
Issue
2
Pages
155-190
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Theoretical
Keywords
IRE Approach/Concept
Featured case/project
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
1389-2843
Grant funding
Atlantic Philanthropies, USA
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
U.S. Department of Education
Grant number
U.S. Department of Education (#R308A6003)
National Science Foundation (#9979863).
Citation
Peurach, D. J., & Glazer, J. L. (2012). Reconsidering Replication: New Perspectives on Large-Scale School Improvement. Journal of Educational Change, 13(2), 155–190. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-011-9177-7
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