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Barbara Schneider, Ph.D. is a John A. Hannah Distinguished University Professor at Michigan State University and principal investigator of the Data Research and Development Center at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Sarah-Kathryn McDonald is executive director of the Data Research and Development Center and a research scientist at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.
Part 1 Part I - Conceptualizing Scale-Up: An Educational Perspective
Chapter 2 Chapter 1 - Educational Innovation and the Problem of Scale
Chapter 3 Chapter 2 - Principles for Scaling Up: Choosing, Measuring Effects, and Promoting Widespread Use of Educational Innovation
Chapter 4 Chapter 3 - Generalizability of Treatment Effects: Psychometrics and Education
Chapter 5 Chapter 4 - Estimating the Effects of Educational Interventions
Part 6 Part II - Modeling Scale-Up: Lessons from Other Fields
Chapter 7 Chapter 5 - Scaling from Prototype to Production: A Managed Process Perspective from Industrial Engineering and Management
Chapter 8 Chapter 6 - From Efficacy to Effectiveness: Translating Randomized Controlled Trial Findings into Treatment Standards in the Health Professions
Chapter 9 Chapter 7 - Linking Program Implementation and Effectiveness: Lessons from a Pooled Sample of Welfare to Work Experiments
Chapter 10 Chapter 8 - Forecasting the Effects of Scaling Up Social Programs: An Economics Perspective
Part 11 Part III - Breaking Boundaries: Successful Scale-Up in Transforming Organizations
Chapter 12 Chapter 9 - Breaking Boundaries: Scaling Collaboration in Time and Space
Chapter 13 Chapter 10 - Socio-Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study
Chapter 14 Chapter 11 - Measuring and Managing Successful Organizational Scale-Up
Part 15 Part IV - Synthesizing Concepts of Scale-Up for Education
Chapter 16 Chapter 12 - Toward a Program of Research on Scale-Up: Analytical Requirements and Theoretical Possibilities
Chapter 17 Chapter 13 - Successful Scale-Up in Three Stages: Insights and Challenges for Educational Research and Practice
Chapter 18 Chapter 14 - Technology and Scale-Up: Implications for Research and Practice
Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.
— CHOICE, January 2008
Scale-Up in Education, Volume I, and the discussion it is sure to start, could not have come at a better time. With the growing emphasis on scientifically rigorous methods to learn what works in education, education researchers, policymakers, and practitioners must begin to consider what impacts may occur in moving from smaller scale studies to larger contexts and more diverse populations of students, teachers, schools, and communities. This volume pulls together a range of approaches from a variety of disciplines to help us think about theoretical and practical issues involved in 'scaling up.' All 14 chapters deserve thoughtful consideration.
— David Myers, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.