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Research Synthesis Infrastructures: Shaping Knowledge in Education

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Research Synthesis Infrastructures: Shaping Knowledge in Education
Abstract/Description
Research syntheses provide one means of managing the proliferation of research knowledge by integrating learnings across primary research studies. What it means to appropriately synthesize research, however, remains a matter of debate: Syntheses can assume a variety of forms, each with important implications for the shape knowledge takes and the interests it serves. To help shed light on these differences and their stakes, this chapter provides a critical comparative review of six research synthesis infrastructures, entities that support research syntheses through investments they make in synthesis production and/or publication—enabling (and constraining) the ways knowledge takes shape. Identifying our critical cases through purposive selection, we examined research synthesis infrastructure variations with respect to four different kinds of investments they make: in the genres of synthesis they support, in their promotion of synthesis quality, in sponsoring stakeholder engagement, and in creating the conditions for collective work. We draw on this comparison to suggest some of the potential changes and challenges in store for education researchers in future years.
Author/creator
See all items with this valueHammond, J. W.
See all items with this valueMoss, Pamela A.
Huynh, Minh Q.
Lagoze, Carl
In publication
Review of Research in Education
Volume
44
Issue
1
Pages
1-35
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
IRE Approach/Concept
Infrastructure
Realist Evaluation
Featured case/project
Cochrane
EPPI-Centre
Campbell Collaboration
What Works Clearinghouse (WWC)
Primary national context
United States
United Kingdom
Open access/free-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
Language
English
ISSN
0091-732X
DOI
10.3102/0091732X20907350
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Article on Author's Profile (ResearchGate)
Grant funding
Spencer Foundation
Grant number
Spencer Foundation Grant #201900070
Citation
Hammond, J. W., Moss, P. A., Huynh, M. Q., & Lagoze, C. (2020). Research Synthesis Infrastructures: Shaping Knowledge in Education. Review of Research in Education, 44(1), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X20907350

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