The Role of Research For and About Scaling Education Innovations

Research from ROSIE makes clear that ROSIE teams experienced tension between the broader push to implement or scale the innovation and pressure to collect data and conduct scaling research. Because we believe that this tension is not unique to ROSIE scaling teams, this brief seeks to offer clarity around using research to advance scaling. The brief distinguishes between research for scaling and research about the scaling process itself, discusses different ways KIX-ROSIE teams are conducting and using research in their scaling work, and identifies some of the research challenges and solutions that emerged.