Introduction to New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research
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Introduction to New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research
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Despite progress in the identification of effective programs and practices with rigorous evidence of effectiveness, there is growing awareness that large-scale improvement of student outcomes requires more than the identification and dissemination of highly effective programs and practices. Increasingly, there are calls for school systems—and the researchers and developers who work with them—to fundamentally change their approach to educational improvement at scale. While these new approaches to scaling up effective programs and practices take many forms, they involve four interrelated themes. One, there is a shift from thinking about implementation at scale to improvement at scale. Two, there is a shift from focusing on scale as outcome to the process of scaling itself. Three, there is a theme around how to deal with adaptation of reform. Four, there are tensions around defining the community of practice for reform. This article outlines current scholarship on scaling up educational reform through these themes and introduces the articles in this special issue, which offers additional theoretical and empirical perspective on scaling up.
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Date
In publication
Series
Volume
92
Issue
5
Pages
559-568
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
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Published Text
Preprint/Forthcoming Resource
Scholarship genre
Commentary/Editorial
Theoretical
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Featured case/project
Peer reviewed
Yes
Grant number
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education (Grant R305E100030)
Citation
Cannata, M., & Rutledge, S. (2017). Introduction to New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research. Peabody Journal of Education, 92(5), 559–568. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2017.1368629
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| Peabody Journal of Education [Special Issue]: New Frontiers in Scaling Up Research |
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