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2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve

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2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve
Abstract/Description
A chasm is growing between our rapidly rising aspirations for our educational systems and what schools can routinely accomplish. Education needs an improvement paradigm—one that recognizes the complexity of the work of education and the wide variability in outcomes that our systems currently produce. This article sketches out such a paradigm. It joins together the discipline of improvement science with the power of structured networked communities to accelerate learning to improve. These networked improvement communities (NICs) combine analytic thinking and systematic methods to develop and test changes that can achieve better outcomes more reliably. NICs are inclusive in drawing together the expertise of practitioners, researchers, designers, technologists, and many others. And they organize their activities in ways akin to a scientific community. They develop practice-based evidence as an essential complement to findings from other forms of educational research. The point is not just to know what can make things better or worse; it is to develop the know-how necessary to actually make things better.
Author/creator
Bryk, Anthony S.
Date
2015
In publication
Educational Researcher
Volume
44
Issue
9
Pages
467-477
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Methodological
Keywords
improvement science
research methodology
research utilization
action research
educational policy
educational reform
organization theory/change
collaboration
mixed-methods
problem solving
experimental design
IRE Approach/Concept
Action Research
Improvement Science
Networked Improvement Community (NIC)
Practice-Based Evidence
Professional Learning Community (PLC)
Featured case/project
Baltimore Public Schools (BPS)
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
ISSN
0013-189X
DOI
10.3102/0013189X15621543
URL
Official Publication Webpage (via SAGE)
Alternate version
Improving: Joining Improvement Science to Networked Communities [AERA Distinguished Lecture]
Other related resources/entities
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Learning to Improve: How America’s Schools Can Get Better at Getting Better
Citation
Bryk, A. S. (2015). 2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve. Educational Researcher, 44(9), 467–477. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X15621543
Cited in
Introducing Improvement Research in Education
The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
Abbreviation
Educational Researcher
Item sets
Oxford Bibliography: The Policy Context of United States Educational Innovation and Improvement
IRE Handbook Introduction Citation
OB Citations - Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
Ob Citations - Research–Practice Partnerships in Education Within the United States

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