2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve

Autor/in	Bryk, Anthony S.
Titel	2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve
Quelle	In: Educational Researcher, 44 (2015) 9, S.467-477 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-189X
DOI	10.3102/0013189X15621543
Schlagwörter	Educational Policy; Educational Change; Theories; Problem Solving; Research Methodology; Research Utilization; Networks; Performance Based Assessment; Personnel Management; Evidence Based Practice; Communities of Practice + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Bildungsreform; Theory; Theorie; Problemlösen; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsumsetzung; Leistungsermittlung; Personalmanagement; Community
Abstract	A chasm is growing between our rapidly rising aspirations for our educational systems and what schools can routinely accomplish. Education needs an improvement paradigm--one that recognizes the complexity of the work of education and the wide variability in outcomes that our systems currently produce. This article sketches out such a paradigm. It joins together the discipline of improvement science with the power of structured networked communities to accelerate learning to improve. These networked improvement communities (NICs) combine analytic thinking and systematic methods to develop and test changes that can achieve better outcomes more reliably. NICs are inclusive in drawing together the expertise of practitioners, researchers, designers, technologists, and many others. And they organize their activities in ways akin to a scientific community. They develop practice-based evidence as an essential complement to findings from other forms of educational research. The point is not just to know what can make things better or worse; it is to develop the know-how necessary to actually make things better. [This article was adapted/derived from the AERA Distinguished Lecture given on April 6, 2014, at the AERA Annual Meeting.] (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01