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9 - Design-Based Research

A Methodological Toolkit for Engineering Change

from Part II - Methodologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

By
Sasha Barab
Edited by
R. Keith Sawyer
R. Keith Sawyer
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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Summary

Design-based research (DBR) is a methodology used to study learning in environments that are designed and systematically changed by the researcher. The goal of DBR is to engage the close study of learning as it unfolds within a particular context that contains one or more theoretically inspired innovations and then to develop new theories, artifacts, and practices that can be used to inform research and learning in other related contexts beyond the one classroom being studied. In DBR, research improves practice at the same time as it results in fundamental research findings that can be generalized. The widespread use of DBR by learning scientists demonstrates the field’s commitment to impacting classroom practice, and is consistent with a focus on complex learning environments that involve many people in situated social practices.

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design-based researchdesign experimentPasteur’s quadrantimplementation contextiterative design
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The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences , pp. 177 - 195
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Edited by R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
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