Guidance Note on Using Implementation Research in Education
Building Evidence in Education (BE2) Working Group
Highlights
Although many interventions aiming to improve quality, inclusion, and equity in education have been tested around the world, it is not always clear from the existing research base why they work, for whom they work, and what are the defining contextual circumstances under which they work. And while there is an increasingly robust body of evidence on 'what works', taking interventions to scale through government systems often requires multiple iterations to achieve fidelity and a full understanding of the wider ecosystem.
Implementation research is concerned with why and how an intervention or reform works by considering the context, stakeholders, and process of implementation. This guidance note, developed by the Building Evidence in Education (BE2) Working Group, helps education stakeholders to design and oversee implementation research in order to answer questions and learn lessons about the contextual factors impacting the implementation of an intervention or reform in a particular government or implementer’s system.
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Building Evidence in Education (BE2) Working Group
BE2 is a working group of over 40 bilateral education donors, multilateral education agencies and foundations active in education research, created in 2012 and led by a Steering Committee that is composed of the UK government Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank and a United Nations (UN) representative agency (currently, UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight).