4Design-Based Research in Education

Philip Bell University of Washington

Christopher M. Hoadley The Pennsylvania State University

Marcia C. Linn University of California, Berkeley

Design-based research studies respond to the systemic, complex nature of education and align well with the goal of promoting inquiry in science courses. The current theoretical frameworks for learning and instruction lack the detail necessary to guide all aspects of the design of science education programs. Design-based research studies draw on the full range of social science research methods to improve designs for instruction and advance understanding of learning. The reciprocal relation between curriculum improvement and advances in theoretical frameworks distinguishes ...

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