A Diverse Array of Improvement Research Methods

We are excited to present the ISN Video Library, a growing collection of interviews we’ve conducted with the founders, leaders, and advocates of a broad array of improvement research approaches. As you watch individual videos, you’ll learn about each approach’s unique history, philosophy, aims, and methods. We also encourage you to look across these videos and see the tremendous breadth of improvement research in education.

Our forthcoming landscape study considers each of the improvement research approaches listed in the table to the right, and we are aiming to have many more approaches represented in our video series soon. To this end, we are always looking for new interviewees! Please get in touch with us if you would like to participate.

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  • Is there an improvement research approach that we should add to our table?
  • Is there someone we should interview with a special insight about their approach?

Video Library

Community-Based Research

Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania

 

Maria Paula Ghiso, Columbia University

Data wise

Candice Bocala, Data Wise Project

Design-Based Implementation Research

Bill Penuel, University of Colorado

Improvement Science

Sandra Park, The Improvement Collective

 

Alicia Grunow, The Improvement Collective

Lesson Study

Catherine Lewis, Mills College

Spirals of Inquiry

Judy Halbert, University of British Columbia

 

Linda Kaser, University of British Columbia