Extending the Applicability of Design-Based Research Through Research-Practice Partnerships

• In Event: Poster Session 7
  In Poster Session: Learning Sciences SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This research explored the implementation of a technology-enhanced instructional model for interdisciplinary learning, which was developed for higher education. Our aim was to extend its applicability by implementing it in three secondary schools. Therefore, a research-practice-partnership was established, and three practitioner-teams collaboratively designed technology-enhanced interdisciplinary learning environments, in which they adapted the model. This paper presents a new type of principled practical knowledge (PPK) —enhanced principled instructional model— which was obtained by comparing the practitioners' designs and the higher education design. The PKK broadened our understanding of ways to promote interdisciplinary learning. This study illustrates how productive research-practice partnerships can serve as a powerful strategy for implementing and scaling educational innovations beyond the original research context.

Authors

• Adi Kidron, University of California - Berkeley

• Yael Kali, University of Haifa