Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) is an approach to research that lies at the intersection of research, policy, and practice. DBIR seeks to reconfigure the roles of researchers and practitioners to better support long-term research practice partnerships aimed at producing innovations that are effective, equitable, and sustainable and that can be adapted successfully to meet the needs of diverse learners across diverse settings, including schools and community settings. DBIR teams don’t just design innovations; they also redesign the infrastructures needed to support equitable implementation of innovations.
Tools are essential for organizing DBIR projects and for creating and maintaining the long-term research-practice partnerships in which such projects take place. Tools such as meeting protocols, heuristics for making design decisions, and processes for uncovering overlapping values among interest holders are critical for ensuring deep participation in different aspects of research and development. Such tools ideally consider power and history, and they enable people to dream new possibilities for systems.
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4 Core DBIR Principles
About Us
Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) is an approach to organizing research and development intended to promote effective, equitable, and sustainable improvements in education. It is an emerging method of relating research and practice that is collaborative, iterative, and grounded in systematic inquiry. DBIR builds the capacity of systems and partnerships to engage in evidence-based, continuous improvement as they work toward the transformation of teaching and learning.