Support scaling of promising interventions

SEER Standards

• Researchers must carry out their research in settings and with student populations such that it can inform extending the reach of promising interventions.

Recommendations

• Researchers should explore factors associated with the intervention and its implementation that can inform the efficacy and sustainability of the intervention at scale, such as its affordability and feasibility.
• Researchers should develop materials that could support the replication and/or scaling of an intervention by others, such as manuals, toolkits, or implementation guides.

Resources

• Read From Research to Market: Development of a Transition Process to Integrate Sustainable Scaling Methodologies into Education Innovation Research Design and Development from SRI International.

What We're Reading

Coburn, C. E. (2003). Rethinking scale: Moving beyond numbers to deep and lasting change. Educational Researcher, 32, 3–12. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x032006003

Krainer, K., Zehetmeir, S., Hanfstingl, Rauch, F., & Tscheinig, T. (2019). Insights into scaling up a nationwide learning and teaching initiative on various levels. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 102, 395–415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-018-9826-3

McDonald, S., Keesler, V. A., Kauffman, N. J., & Schneider, B. (2006). Scaling-up exemplary interventions. Educational Researcher, 35, 15–24. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x035003015

Omar Al-Ubaydli, John A. List, and Dana Suskind. 2019. The Science of Using Science: Towards an Understanding of the Threats to Scaling Experiments NBER Working Paper No. 25848 May 2019. https://tmwcenter.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/The-Science-of-Using-Science-2019-Al-Ubaydli-List-Suskind.pdf

Related: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/scalability/

Last Modified: October 12, 2021