2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve
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- Title
- 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
- 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
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ISSN
- 0013-189X
- 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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