Improvement science involves an objective, methodical, and systematic approach to improving practice in education.
Rigorous, but not rigid
In improvement science, researchers work with practitioners to select methods and data that will lend reliable and meaningful insight to the problem at hand.
NICs offer a way to integrate improvements into, and across, systems
Networked improvement communities offer a sound, replicable way to solve the “scalability” problem that often stymies the spread of innovation in education.
Some things borrowed, some things new
Improvement science and NICs build on ideas that have a long history and a great deal of evidence behind them, but they also offer new and distinct contributions that can help education “get better at getting better.”
This brief lays out an evidence-based approach to communicating about the science of improvement in the education sector. It aims to help the public understand improvement science and support it as an approach to education reform.