"Effective research in educational settings requires collaboration between researchers and school-based practitioners to codesign instruction and assessment, analyze findings, and make thoughtful revisions. This innovative work presents design-based research (DBR), a key methodology for conducting studies in authentic educational contexts. Leading experts provide examples of high-quality DBR addressing different research

Over a decade ago the concept of "design experiments" was introduced because of the belief that many of questions could not be adequately addressed by laboratory-based experiments. Since then, design-based research as a term has grown in popularity and significance. The core manuscripts of this special issue respond to the

"Effective research in educational settings requires collaboration between researchers and school-based practitioners to codesign instruction and assessment, analyze findings, and make thoughtful revisions. This innovative work presents design-based research (DBR), a key methodology for conducting studies in authentic educational contexts. Leading experts provide examples of high-quality DBR addressing different research

This volume focuses on new trends in art and education in Japan. It will inspire and provoke discussion among researchers and practitioners in various educational settings about the future direction of art education in Japan and around the world.

The key question this book addresses is how to identify and create optimal conditions for the kind of learning and development that is especially important for effectively functioning in the 21st century. Taking a new approach to this long-debated issue, it looks at how a design research-based science of learning