Design-Based Implementation Research: An Emerging Methodological Model for Conducting Design Research within Educational Systems


“Design-Based Implementation Research applies design-based perspectives and methods to address and study problems of implementation…DBIR challenges education researchers to break down barriers between sub-disciplines of educational research that isolate those who design and study innovations within classrooms from those who study the diffusion of innovations.”


From the Introduction to the forthcoming NSSE Yearbook, Design-Based Implementation Research: Theories, methods, and exemplars.

This web site presents resources related to an emerging model of research and development called Design-Based Implementation Research (DBIR). DBIR has four key principles:
  1. a focus on persistent problems of practice from multiple stakeholders’ perspectives
  2. a commitment to iterative, collaborative design
  3. a concern with developing theory related to both classroom learning and implementation through systematic inquiry
  4. a concern with developing capacity for sustaining change in systems
Click here for more on the key principles of DBIR

Click here to for posters and information from the 2013 AERA structured poster session on DBIR.

Theories, methods, and examples of DBIR will appear in a forthcoming volume:

Fishman, B. J., Penuel, W. R., Allen, A.-R. & Cheng, B. H. (Eds.). (In press). Design-based implementation research: Theories, methods, and exemplars. National Society for the Study of Education Yearbook. New York, NY: Teachers College Record.