Design-Based Implementation Research

Item

Title

Design-Based Implementation Research

Abstract/Description

PURPOSE
This paper is second of seven in this volume elaborating different approaches to quality improvement in education. It delineates a methodology called design-based implementation research (DBIR). The approach used in this paper is aimed at iteratively improving the quality of classroom teaching and learning practices in defined problem areas through collaborations among researchers, practitioners and other education stakeholders.

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH
The paper describes the origins of the approach in US education, along with its foundations, core principles and a case application of DBIR in practice. The case focuses on the specific problem of teaching science and genetics in primary and secondary schools in a district.

FINDINGS
The guiding principles of DBIR are: a focus on persistent problems of classroom educational practice; iterative and collaborative design and testing of innovations through partnerships between researchers and practitioners, involving multiple stakeholders’ perspectives; a concern with developing theory related to both implementation processes and classroom learning outcomes, using systematic inquiry; and development of the capacity of both researchers and practitioners to sustain changes in educational systems.

ORIGINALITY/VALUE
Few theoretical treatments and demonstration cases are currently available in US education that examine common models of quality improvement, particularly DBIR. By engaging practitioners with researchers in designing, testing and implementing reforms meaningfully, DBIR shows promise in offering significant on-the-ground benefits. This paper adds value by allowing readers to compare the DBIR method with the other improvement approaches explicated in this volume.

Author/creator

LeMahieu, Paul G.

Nordstrum, Lee E.

Potvin, Ashley Seidel

Date

2017

In publication

Quality Assurance in Education

Series

Quality Assurance in Education [Special Issue]: Working to Improve: Seven Approaches to Quality Improvement in Education

Volume

25

Issue

1

Pages

26-42

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

en Methodological

Keywords

quality improvement

DBIR

IRE Approach/Concept

Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR)

Featured case/project

Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP)

STEMGenetics

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0968-4883

DOI

10.1108/QAE-11-2016-0077

URL

Publisher Webpage

Is part of

Quality Assurance in Education: Working to Improve: Seven Approaches to Quality Improvement in Education [Special Issue]

Other related resources/entities

Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching

Citation

LeMahieu, P. G., Nordstrum, L. E., & Potvin, A. S. (2017). Design-Based Implementation Research. Quality Assurance in Education, 25(1), 26–42. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-11-2016-0077

Cited in

Cross-National Research on Continuous Improvement

Item sets

Quality Assurance in Education [Special Issue]: Working to Improve: Seven Approaches to Quality Improvement in Education

OB Citations - Cross National Research on Continuous Improvement

OB Citations - Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education

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