Change is a major part of our lives, whether it is change in industries, technologies or
various sectors such as transportation, education, health care or social policies. But we still …

In this article, Heather C. Hill and Pam Grossman discuss the current focus on using teacher
observation instruments as part of new teacher evaluation systems being considered and …

The author suggests that we apply recent research knowledge to improve our
conceptualization, measures, and methodology for studying the effects of teachers' …

Michael Fullan's New Meaning of Educational Change is the definitive textbook on the study
of educational change. Based on practical and fundamental work with education systems in …

Designed for novice as well as more experienced researchers, Reason & Rigor by Sharon
M. Ravitch and Matthew Riggan presents conceptual frameworks as a mechanism for …

Education policy faces a familiar public policy challenge: Local implementation is difficult. In
this article we develop a cognitive framework to characterize sense-making in the …

The issue of “scale” is a key challenge for school reform, yet it remains undertheorized in the
literature. Definitions of scale have traditionally restricted its scope, focusing on the …

The decoupling argument—that schools respond to pressures from the institutional
environment by decoupling changes in structures from classroom instruction—has been a …

This book argues the case for combining multiple research methods, and provides much-
needed practical guidance for researchers who want to use this mixed-methods approach …

This article describes tools for measuring the content of instruction, the content of
instructional materials, and the alignment between these. Illustrative findings about the use …