The foundation for a new era of data-driven medicine has been set by recent technological
advances that enable the assessment and management of human health at an …

A group of collaborative approaches to education research sits uneasily within the existing
infrastructure for research and development in the United States. The researchers in this …

Pressures are increasing on educational policy and practice to use research to guide
improvement. Recently there have been concerted efforts to forge new and different kinds of …

Schools today confront ambitious new societal goals aiming at greater learning for more
students. Simultaneously, we are demanding that our educational institutions operate more …

Background/Context Educators around the country are working individually and collectively
to improve teaching and learning. Despite marked progress in some places driven by these …

The main theme of this book is to describe complex phenomena as structures of interacting
objects. Object technology is applicable to a wide range of phenomena on many different …

That there is a divide between research and practice is a common lament across policy-
oriented disciplines, and education is no exception. Rhetoric abounds about the role …

A user enters input, or a question in natural language form, and information is retrieved. A
questions database is coupled to the input interface and contains questions which are …

There is growing concern among researchers and governmental officials that knowing what
works in education is important, but not enough for school improvement. Sound evidence …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to delineate an approach to quality assurance in
education called networked improvement communities (NICs) that focused on integrating …