Discovering "What's Innovative": The Challenge of Evaluating Education Research and Development Efforts

Autor/inn/en	Yin, Robert K.; Hackett, Edward J.; Chubin, Daryl E.
Titel	Discovering "What's Innovative": The Challenge of Evaluating Education Research and Development Efforts
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 83 (2008) 4, S.674-690 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
Schlagwörter	Research and Development; Partnerships in Education; Program Effectiveness; Elementary Secondary Education; Program Evaluation; Educational Innovation; Educational Improvement; Educational Change; Mathematics Instruction; Science Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschung und Entwicklung; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Bildungsreform; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht
Abstract	National Science Foundation's (NSF's) MSP Program seeks foremost "to improve student outcomes in high-quality mathematics and science by all students, at all pre-K-12 levels". The MSP Program, consisting of a portfolio of funded projects, in part positions itself as a research and development (R&D) program. This study has addressed the need to assess how well the R&D function is working, beyond the program's possible impact on existing pre-K-12 systems. The study discusses and enumerates discoveries and innovations in education and other fields. In so doing, the study suggests four types of discovery and innovation that can be monitored as part of an assessment of the MSP Program: uncovering, inventing, explaining, and substantiating. The study concludes that the needed R&D assessment can occur by monitoring the funded projects for their formal presentations and publications for evidence of these four types of discovery and innovation. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10