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Generating Improvement Through Research and Development in Education Systems

April 19, 2013 | Media and Technology, Public Programs, Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks, Exhibitions, Informal/Formal Connections
To effectively address problems in education, research must be shaped around a problem of practice. Reorienting research and development in this way must overcome three obstacles. First, the incentive system for university researchers must be changed to reward research on problems of practice. Second, the contexts must be created that will allow the complexity of problems of practice to be understood and addressed by interdisciplinary teams of researchers, practitioners, and education designers. And third, meaningful experimentation must become acceptable in school systems in order to develop a better understanding of how to effectively stimulate and support the desired changes.

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  • M. Suzanne Donovan
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    SERP Institute
  • Citation

    DOI : 10.1126/science.1236180
    Publication Name: Science
    Volume: 340
    Number: 6130
    Page Number: 317
    Resource Type: Research Products
    Discipline: Education and learning science | General STEM
    Audience: Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Public Programs | Professional Development, Conferences, and Networks | Exhibitions | Informal/Formal Connections | K-12 Programs

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