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They work in collaborative teams, and much of the research is carried out in school settings around the country. As the research teams learn over time how to cultivate the substance and processes of research-based practice, they come to embody a new model of practitioners and researchers familiar with and comfortable in both the world of research and of practice.
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Education does not presently function like medicine or agriculture, where close linkages between research and practice have had major influences on both. Three sets of powerful but underutilized resources convince us that a SERP research and development enterprise could support genuine improvements in student achievement: (1)
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· ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ TH E GOAL The Strategic Education Research Partnership is designed to reshape the education research and development landscape to meet these challenges: SERP will seek to forge a new kind of partnership among researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, generating collaborative work that will in turn help develop new capabilities among researchers and educators. This means that SERP needs to be a place where researchers, policy makers, and practitioners can work collaboratively, where the ethos is one of respect for the many kinds of knowledge and experience needed to advance research-based educational practice.
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a set of field sites school districts or groups of districts where practitioners and researchers work together to define and pursue key questions and puzzles regarding practice and lines of development and implementation research. All of these headquarters, research teams, and field sites will make common cause in a series of collaborative research and development networks.
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The proposed SERP networks would provide the physical link between schools and school districts, on one hand, and the research community, on the other. This partnership in a common and carefully planned enterprise is what will make possible the key innovative characteristics of the SERP endeavor: · Placement of the problems of practice at center stage in determining the research agenda; · Exploitation of many sources of knowledge, including behavioral and social science research, subject-matter scholarship, and, not least, effective practice; · Systematic linkage among elements that are typically treated separately in educational research student learning, teacher learning, the organizational context of schooling, and education policy; · Development of mechanisms that accumulate knowledge dynamically; · Rigorous attention to replication and the systematic building of scientific knowledge; · The construction of a detailed, longitudinal database; and · Conceptualizing student, teacher, and organizational learning as long-term developmental processes.
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Linking research to education practice effectively will require the commitment of those who are ultimately responsible for the form that practice takes. There are, clearly, many stakeholders for whom education issues are a high priority, but none with greater authority over, or responsibility for, student outcomes than state policy makers.
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Ultimately, a SERP enterprise capable of carrying out the broad mission envisioned here will require a considerably larger investment. While the size of the investment envisioned may be daunting given the meager funds traditionally allocated for education R&D and current fiscal strains, even 0.5 to 1 percent of the budget for elementary and secondary education would yield two to four times the amount estimated for the first seven years.
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