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This paper presents a framework for implementing improvement science in a district or educational organization. Findings from interviews with 17 experienced educational improvers indicate critical elements for a school district to effectively support and
Erin Anderson +2 more
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The Depth and Breadth of Improvement Science
The Improvement Science in Education series, initiated in 2019 by Robert Crow, Brandi Nicole Hinnant-Crawford, and Dean T. Spaulding, seeks to broaden and strengthen the understanding and use of improvement science in education.
Christopher Benedetti
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Bridging the Silos: A Comparative Analysis of Implementation Science and Improvement Science. [PDF]
Background Implementation science and improvement science have similar goals of improving health care services for better patient and population outcomes, yet historically there has been limited exchange between the two fields. Implementation science was
Nilsen P +5 more
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Quality as an organizational strategy: building a system of improvement [PDF]
Improvement science offers proven theories and methods that can be applied to specific projects, but they have rarely been applied to the leadership systems of healthcare organizations.
David M. Williams +2 more
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Promotion of improvement as a science [PDF]
The remarkable achievements of modern health care make the defi ciencies associated with delivery of care all the more noticeable. Health care is a major source of avoidable harm, and patients are routinely exposed to wide and inexplicable variations in the quality of care that they receive. These variations are very diffi cult to address, despite good
Marshall, M +2 more
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Developing Leadership for Improvement
Improvement and action-oriented research approaches make iterative testing to learn about systems and adaptive change a central practice. As the need to develop the field’s capacity to improve grows, so does the need to develop leaders’ capacity for ...
Maritza Lozano +2 more
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It’s Time to Make More Room for Program Evaluation in the Education Doctorate Program
This essay highlights the value of an applied methodology course in program evaluation in the education doctorate program by exploring several benefits that it offers to enhance a doctoral student’s ability to solve complex problems of practice ...
Jessica A. Marotta
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Preparing Scholarly Practitioners to Use Improvement Science
While doctoral leadership programs have widely adopted Improvement Science (IS) as a signature pedagogy, few studies have examined how to best equip doctoral students with the knowledge and research skills they need to utilize IS in practice.
Noelle A. Paufler
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Improvement Science Meets Improvement Scholarship: Reframing Research for Better Healthcare. [PDF]
In this editorial essay I explore the possibilities of ‘improvement scholarship’ in order to set the scene for the theme of, and the other papers in, this issue.
Cribb A.
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Developing a science of improvement [PDF]
Clinicians are used to using scientific evidence when they make decisions about the care they provide for patients: they have a good idea of what blood pressure they should be aiming to achieve for patients with diabetes, and there is enough evidence about the outcomes of knee joint replacement surgery to enable an informed conversation with patients ...
Martin, Marshall, James, Mountford
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