Creating Usable Innovations in Systemic Reform: Scaling Up Technology-Embedded Project-Based Science in Urban Schools

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Title

Creating Usable Innovations in Systemic Reform: Scaling Up Technology-Embedded Project-Based Science in Urban Schools

Abstract/Description

This article describes work by a research group bringing a middle-school inquiry and technology science innovation to scale in a systemic urban school reform setting. We distinguish between scaling and scaling within systemic reform. We pose a framework for use by developers of instructional interventions to gauge their "fit" with existing school capabilities, policy and management structures, and organizational culture, and illustrate how the framework exemplifies our experiences. We present challenges for researchers to consider as they attempt to create usable innovations and facilitate their adoption, enactment, and maintenance by school systems. Finally, we call for new approaches to the study of these problems outlining how systemic innovation challenges traditional evaluation and experimental methods.

Author/creator

Blumenfeld, Phyllis C.

Fishman, Barry J.

Krajcik, Joseph S.

Marx, Ronald W.

Soloway, Elliot

Date

2000

In publication

Educational Psychologist

Volume

35

Issue

3

Pages

149-164

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0046-1520

DOI

10.1207/S15326985EP3503_2

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)

Citation

Blumenfeld, P., Fishman, B. J., Krajcik, J., Marx, R. W., & Soloway, E. (2000). Creating Usable Innovations in Systemic Reform: Scaling Up Technology-Embedded Project-Based Science in Urban Schools. Educational Psychologist, 35(3), 149–164. https://doi.org/10.1207/S15326985EP3503_2

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