Publications
The following articles, chapters, and collections provide overviews of the Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR) approach. They provide more in-depth presentations of the principles, alongside examples of the principles in action.
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine. (2024). Scaling and sustaining pre-K-12 STEM education innovations: Systemic challenges, systemic responses. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27950 (Chapter 5)
Chen, B. (2024). A framework for infrastructuring sustainable innovations in education. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 33(3), 583-612. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2024.2320159
Penuel, W. R., Allen, C. D., Manz, E., & Heredia, S. C. (2022). Design-Based Implementation Research as an approach to studying teacher learning in research-practice partnerships focused on equity. In A. C. Superfine, S. Goldman, & M.-L. M. Ko (Eds.), Teacher learning in changing contexts: Perspectives from the learning sciences (pp. 217-237). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003097112-15
Penuel, W. R., & Potvin, A. (2021). Design-Based Implementation Research to support inquiry learning. In C. A. Chinn, R. G. Duncan, S. R. Goldman, & M. Kapur (Eds.), International handbook of inquiry and learning (pp. 74-87). Springer. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315685779-6
Anderson, E. R., & Colyvas, J. A. (2021). What sticks and why? A MoRe institutional framework for education research. Teachers College Record, 123(7), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146812112300705
Penuel, W. R. (2019). Infrastructuring as a practice of design-based research for supporting and studying equitable implementation and sustainability of innovations. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 28(4-5), 659-677. https://doi.org/10.1080/10508406.2018.1552151
Fishman, B. J., & Penuel, W. R. (2018). Design-based implementation research. In F. Fischer, C. E. Hmelo-Silver, S. R. Goldman, & P. Reimann (Eds.), International Handbook of the Learning Sciences (pp. 393-400). Routledge.
LeMahieu, P., Nordstrum, L. E., & Potvin, A. S. (2017). Design-based implementation research. Quality Assurance, 25(1), 26-42. https://doi.org/10.1108/qae-11-2016-0077
Fishman, B. J., Penuel, W.R., Allen, A.-R. & Cheng, B. H. (Eds). (2013). Design-based implementation research. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook, 112(2).
Penuel, W. R., Fishman, B. J., Cheng, B., & Sabelli, N. (2011). Organizing research and development at the intersection of learning, implementation, and design. Educational Researcher, 40(7), 331-337.
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Since the term Design-Based Implementation Research first appeared in the literature, hundreds of papers and presentations have been published. This site no longer tracks individual papers using DBIR, though we curate a selection of papers under the “cases” section for the purpose of providing a window into how DBIR projects yield different insights at different phases of research. You can explore papers that draw on the DBIR approach through a Google Scholar search.