Data-driven decision making continues to be a growing educational reform initiative across
the globe. The effective use of data requires that teachers develop the knowledge and skills …

This paper is about the relationship between research, policy and practice in education. It
outlines reasons for the increased interest in research and its impact and describe some of …

Recent efforts to improve the quality and availability of scientific research in education,
coupled with increased expectations for the use of research in practice, demand new ways …

A group of collaborative approaches to education research sits uneasily within the existing
infrastructure for research and development in the United States. The researchers in this …

This chapter presents an introduction to design-based implementation research (DBIR). We
describe the need for DBIR as a research approach that challenges educational researchers …

With its focus on school-level leadership, Part One seeks to identify, elaborate, and clarify
existing knowledge about successful leadership practices. Because leadership is enacted …

Over many decades, educators have developed countless interventions and theories about
how to create lasting change. Implementation research is the study of these efforts with a set …

One of the central lessons from research on data use in schools and school districts is that
assessments, student tests, and other forms of data are only as good as how they are used …

Educational leadership can have strong, positive, although indirect, effects on student
learning. The full report of our study—Learning from Leadership: Investigating the Links to …

Schools face a lot of data on the functioning of their school which they can use to make
improvements in teaching, learning and the organization. For data use to lead to …