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Research and Development


Overview
The Research & Development initiative works to build and deepen understanding of student-centered learning approaches, in order to foster more widespread adoption and implementation.

View current Research & Development funding opportunities.

Priorities
Our Research & Development initiative focuses grants on three priority areas:

  • Gathering and promoting existing knowledge of student-centered approaches to learning.
  • Creating new research to promote student-centered approaches, and to support overall  system change, policy change and community engagement.
  • Developing new tools that support student-centered teaching, learning and assessment.  

Current Activities
Building a Knowledge Base

In partnership with Jobs for the Future, our intermediary, we’re gathering research on the rationale for and systems implications of student-centered approaches to learning.

 Emerging Fields
Through grants to districts, schools and programs, we’re making important discoveries about what works in competency-based approaches to student progression.

Work to Date
The Research & Development initiative has partnered with the Center for Collaborative Education on its  “Building Quality Performance Assessments” initiative. This investment has already yielded two critical reports identifying the role of assessment in shaping learners’ experience.