Examining Educational Design Research As Form Of Teacher Professional Learning: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis

Abstract

With schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland required to implement a new National Curriculum, it is timely explore how other systems have approached such a large-scale undertaking. In the United States, schools have been implementing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for the past 5 years. The introduction of the CCSS has led schools, districts and systems to intensify their focus on teacher professional learning to ensure the standards are implemented with fidelity. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of teachers who participated in a district-wide Educational Design Research (EDR) project, as a form of professional learning, during the 2014-2015 school ye..