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Banks, James A. – Educational Researcher, 2016
During the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the quest for civil rights by African Americans and other groups of color reverberated throughout the United States and the world, including within educational professional and research organizations, such as the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, the National Council of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Professional Associations, Civil Rights, Social Change
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Gutiérrez, Kris D.; Penuel, William R. – Educational Researcher, 2014
The authors argue for a reconceptualization of rigor that requires sustained, direct, and systematic documentation of what takes place inside programs to document how students and teachers change and adapt interventions in interactions with each other in relation to their dynamic local contexts. Building on promising new programs at the Institute…
Descriptors: Intervention, Context Effect, Interpersonal Relationship, Research Utilization
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Ball, Arnetha F. – Educational Researcher, 2012
In this 2012 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Presidential Address, the author considers this year's conference theme--how to take what we know from research and put it to effective (policy and practice) use. The essay challenges members individually and collectively to improve the connection. She reflects on the history of AERA as…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Utilization
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Penuel, William R.; Fishman, Barry J.; Cheng, Britte Haugan; Sabelli, Nora – Educational Researcher, 2011
This article describes elements of an approach to research and development called "design-based implementation research." The approach represents an expansion of design research, which typically focuses on classrooms, to include development and testing of innovations that foster alignment and coordination of supports for improving…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Teaching Methods, Program Implementation
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Morris, Anne K.; Hiebert, James – Educational Researcher, 2011
To solve two enduring problems in education--unacceptably large variation in learning opportunities for students across classrooms and little continuing improvement in the quality of instruction--the authors propose a system that centers on the creation of shared instructional products that guide classroom teaching. By examining systems outside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Educational Opportunities, Instructional Improvement
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Burkhardt, Hugh; Schoenfeld, Alan H. – Educational Researcher, 2003
Educational research is not very influential, useful, or well funded. This article explores why and suggests ways that the situation could be improved. Our focus is on the processes that link the development of good ideas and insights, the development of tools and structures for implementation, and the enabling of robust implementation in…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Educational Research, Educational Improvement, Academic Achievement
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Kessels, Jos. P. A. M.; Korthagen, Fred A. J. – Educational Researcher, 1996
Explores the relationship between theory and practice in education, discusses the characteristics of the different types of rationality, that is, episteme (scientific understanding) versus phronesis (practical wisdom), and examines the consequences for teacher education of the shift from episteme to phronesis. A revaluation of practical knowledge…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Learning Theories, Philosophy, Research and Development
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Klein, Susan S. – Educational Researcher, 1997
Responds to Robert Slavin's article "Design Competitions: A Proposal for a New Federal Role in Educational Research and Development" (Educational Researcher, 1997). Compares two approaches to improving federal educational research and development management: the System of Expert Panels, and Proposed Design Competitions. Key similarities…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
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Richardson, Virginia – Educational Researcher, 1990
Uses the literature on teacher change and learning to teach, and examples from a teacher change research project, to examine how research can be used to bring about change in teaching practices. Suggests that the empirical premises derived from research, combined with a teacher's practical knowledge, can produce teacher change. (FMW)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education