Report / Jan 3, 2017

Framing Strategies to Build Understanding of Improvement Science

Emphasize the following themes and ideas

Scientific problem-solving approach

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.

Framing Strategies to Build Understanding of Improvement Science

Framing Strategies to Build Understanding of Improvement Science

Emphasize the following themes and ideas

Scientific problem-solving approach

Rigorous, but not rigid

NICs offer a way to integrate improvements into, and across, systems

Some things borrowed, some things new

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