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Implementation Science: Understanding and Finding Solutions to Variation in Program Implementation

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Title
Implementation Science: Understanding and Finding Solutions to Variation in Program Implementation
Abstract/Description
PURPOSE
This paper is one of seven in this volume elaborating upon different approaches to quality improvement in education. This paper aims to delineate a methodology called Implementation Science, focusing on methods to enhance the reach, adoption, use and maintenance of innovations and discoveries in diverse education contexts.

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH
The paper presents the origins, theoretical foundations, core principles and a case study showing an application of Implementation Science in education, namely, in promoting school–community–university partnerships to enhance resilience (PROSPER).

FINDINGS
Implementation Science is concerned with understanding and finding solutions to the causes of variation in a program’s outcomes relating to its implementation. The core phases are: initial considerations about the host context; creating an implementation structure; sustaining the structure during implementation; and improving future applications.

ORIGINALITY/VALUE
Few theoretical treatments and demonstration cases are currently available on commonly used models of quality improvement in other fields that might have potential value in improving education systems internationally. This paper fills this gap by elucidating one promising approach. The paper also derives value, as it permits a comparison of the Implementation Science approach with other quality improvement approaches treated in this volume.
Author/creator
Nordstrum, Lee E.
LeMahieu, Paul G.
Berrena, Elaine
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
58-73
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Theoretical
en Methodological
Keywords
quality improvement
implementation science
IRE Approach/Concept
Implementation Science
Featured case/project
PROSPER (PROmoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience)
Open access/full-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISSN
0968-4883
DOI
10.1108/QAE-12-2016-0080
URL
Publisher Webpage
Is part of
Quality Assurance in Education: Working to Improve: Seven Approaches to Quality Improvement in Education [Special Issue]
Citation
Nordstrum, L. E., LeMahieu, P. G., & Berrena, E. (2017). Implementation Science: Understanding and Finding Solutions to Variation in Program Implementation. Quality Assurance in Education, 25(1), 58–73. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAE-12-2016-0080
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Quality Assurance in Education [Special Issue]: Working to Improve: Seven Approaches to Quality Improvement in Education
OB Citations - Traditions of Quality Improvement in Education

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