Design Based Implementation Research

Doing Research in DBIR

As a strategy for promoting quality in the research and development process, teams develop theory related to both classroom learning and implementation through systematic inquiry.

  • DBIR gives a central role to research and evidence to inform (but not determine) changes to design.
  • Theory both guides and emerges from design and the implementation of programs and curricula.
  • For any given problem of practice, multiple theories are likely to be needed.
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    Developing Tasks to Assess Phenomenon-Based Science Learning: Challenges and Lessons Learned from Building Proximal Transfer Tasks

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    Appendix: Rubric for Analyzing Quality of 3D Assessments

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    Tools for Supporting Teachers to Build Quality 3D Assessment Tasks

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    Developing a Validity Argument for Practical Measures of Student Experience in Project-Based Science Classrooms

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  • Research-Practice Partnerships and ESSA: A Learning Agenda for the Coming Decade

    Penuel, William R., and Caitlin Farrell. "Research-Practice Partnerships and Essa: A Learning Agenda for the Coming Decade." In The Social Side of Reform, edited by Esther Quintero-Corrall. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, in press.

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    Students’ Responses to Curricular Activities as Indicator of Coherence in Project-Based Science

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    A Research-Practice Partnership to Improve Formative Assessment in Science

    Penuel, W. R., & DeBarger, A. H. (in press). A research-practice partnership to improve formative assessment in science. In A. J. Daly & K. S. Finnigan (Eds.), Thinking systemically: Improving districts under pressure. Washington, DC: AERA.

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    Analysing Curriculum Implementation from Integrity and Actor-oriented Perspectives

    Penuel, W. R., Phillips, R. A., & Harris, C. J. (2014). Analysing curriculum implementation from integrity and actor-oriented perspectives. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 46(6), 751-777.

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    Research-Practice Partnerships: A Strategy for Leveraging Research for Educational Improvement in School Districts

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    Theories and Research Methodologies for Design-Based Implementation Research: Examples from Four Cases

    Russell, J. L., Jackson, K., Krumm, A. E., & Frank, K. A. (2013). Theories and Research Methodologies for Design-Based Implementation Research: Examples From Four Cases. Design based implementation research: Theories, methods, and exemplars, 157-191.

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    Taking a Societal Sector Perspective on Youth Learning and Development

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    Questions to Consider When Forming Partnerships Developed by Pittsburgh Design Fellows Partnership

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    Negotiating Problems of Practice in Research-Practice Design Partnerships

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    Contingent Pedagogies

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    Impacts of a Professional Development Program Focused on Helping Teachers Support Student Argumentation

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    Towards an Evidence Framework for Design-based Implementation Research

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    Design Research with Educational Systems: Investigating and Supporting Improvements in the Quality of Mathematics Teaching and Learning at Scale

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    Rigby Presentation on Teacher Collaborative Time in Math

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    Borko DBIR in Schools Benefits & Challenges

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    LeMahieu NICs in Improvement Science

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    Gomez Isolated on Hill of Beans

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    Improving Inservice Teacher Education with Design-Based Implementation Research

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    NCTM Webinar on DBIR and Early Math Learning Slides

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    Learning through STEM-rich tinkering: Findings from a jointly negotiated research project taken up in practice

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    Critical design ethnography: Designing for change

    Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 35(2), 254-268.

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    Rapid ethnography: Time deepening strategies for HCI field research

    In Proceedings of the conference on designing interactive systems: Processes, practices, methods, and techniques (pp. 280-286). New York, NY: ACM Press.

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    Script for NCTM Keynote on DBIR and Expanding Opportunity to Learn

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    Key Findings of Research on Professional Development in Science 1996-2014

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    Using ethnography in contextual design

    Communications of the ACM, 40(7), 82-88.

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    NCTM Keynote on Design-Based Implementation Research and Expanding Opportunity to Learn

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    Developing a DBIR Research Plan

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    Diagnostic Rubric: Are We a Partnership Yet?

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    Leveraging Professional Development to Design and Enact NGSS-aligned Materials in Uncertain Policy Contexts

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    Russell Presentation on Implementing and Sustaining Ambitious Reforms in Math

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    Heredia Presentation on Sensemaking in Implementation

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    Penuel Overview Presentation

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    Principal Look Fors in Framework-Aligned Teaching

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    Design-Based Implementation Research for Improving Undergraduate STEM Education

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    Design Pattern for Developing and Using Models Handout

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    Sample Assessment Tasks to Adapt to Design Pattern

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    Developing Assessments of Science Proficiency: Recommendations from the NRC (2014) Report

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    William T. Grant Foundation Resources Related to Research-Practice Partnerships

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    http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/resources/research-practice-partnerships/Research-Practice-Partnerships
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    From new technological infrastructures to curricular activity systems: Advanced designs for teaching and learning

    In M. J. Jacobson & P. Reimann (Eds.), Designs for learning environments of the future: International perspectives from the learning sciences (pp. 233-262). New York: Springer.

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    Scaling up innovative technology-based mathematics

    Journal of the Learning Sciences, 17(2), 248-286. (Paywall)

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    Examining teachers’ instructional moves aimed at developing students' ideas and questions in learner-centered science classrooms

    Journal of Science Teacher Education, 23(7), 768-788.

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    Linking teacher and student learning to improve professional development in systemic reform

    Teaching and Teacher Education, 19(6), 643-658.

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    North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute

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    http://tracs.unc.edu/learn-about-clinical-translational-research/learn-about-clinical-translational-research.html
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    William T. Grant Foundation Resources for Design and Analysis of Group Randomized Trials

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    Situated Research Design and Methodological Choices in Formative Program Evaluation

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