The Enactment of Improvement Science in Higher Education

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session Four
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT031 (Saturday)

Abstract

Improvement Science (IS) is a methodology that guides teams of educators, administrators, researchers, and students to collaboratively identify problems and the systems that produce them, followed by the iterative development and testing of solutions to these problems (Hinnant-Crawford, 2020). While evidence about the use of improvement science in K-12 education is emerging, there is little complementary scholarship in the postsecondary context, especially scholarship focused on how those involved in IS engage its principles and routines in institutions of higher education (IHEs). Using a process-oriented, single case study design, I examine how students, staff, and faculty at one IHE enact improvement science.

Author

• Elizabeth Jones, University of Michigan