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Brandi Hinnant-Crawford; Edwin Nii Bonney; Jill Alexa Perry; Amanda R. Bozack; Deborah S. Peterson; Robert Crow; Susan Carlile – Educational Researcher, 2024
In this essay, we explore the tension between research using continuous improvement (CI) paradigms, such as improvement science, and conventional research, and the role and regulation of Institutional Review Board (IRB) oversight. We argue that the current regulatory structure privileges traditional research and hinders collaborative inquiry that…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Cooperation, Participatory Research, Research Methodology
Thompson, Karen D.; Martinez, Martha I.; Clinton, Chelsea; Díaz, Guadalupe – Educational Researcher, 2017
Researcher-practitioner partnerships have gained increasing prominence within education in recent years, yet scholarship on partnerships and tools to guide partnerships' work remain in their infancy. Drawing on our own work in a partnership as well as analysis of abstracts for the 41 partnerships funded by the Institute of Education Sciences and…
Descriptors: Educational Researchers, Interpersonal Relationship, Incidence, Data Collection
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Wiebe, Eric; Thompson, Isaac; Behrend, Tara – Educational Researcher, 2015
This response to Perna et al. provides an alternate approach to research on massive open online courses (MOOCs). We argue that a student-centered, theory-driven conceptualization and methodological approaches allow us to move beyond descriptive statistics and into a deeper understanding of MOOC learners. Examples using a teacher development MOOC…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Open Education, Online Courses, Student Centered Curriculum