Launching Implementation and Replication Studies in Mathematics Education (IRME)

Abstract

We are launching a new international research journal in mathematics education."What?", you might ask, "Doesn't mathematics education already have a myriad of journals?" Yes, this is indisputable. A quick count will easily reveal more than a hundred, counting also regional and national journals. Yet, as the title of this

Implementation-related research in mathematics education: the search for identity

“…This is because most of these papers simultaneously encompass several reasons. For example, Jaworski and Potari ( 2021) mentioned all five reasons as the motivation for their study, and many authors developed arguments that concern four reasons (e.g., Burkhardt & Schoenfeld, 2021;Krainer, 2021;Prytz, 2021) or three (e.g., Devlin, 2021;Jankvist et al, 2021aJankvist et al, , 2021bValoyes-Chávez & Felmer, 2021;Wang et al, 2021). In other words, most of the papers simultaneously elaborate on design and/or re-design issues, on the interplay of factors that influence the enactment and on aspects of implementation-related theory development.…”

“…Of course, there are also implementation programs, in which nearly symmetrical attention is given to both materialcentered and interaction-center innovations that complement each other (e.g., Diego-Mantecón et al, 2021;Jankvist et al, 2021aJankvist et al, , 2021bKarsenty, 2021;Roesken-Winter et al, 2021;Wang et al, 2021). Such programs concern innovations that can be seen as mixed or material-interactive.…”

“…Furthermore, in three SI papers, by Jankvist et al, (2021aJankvist et al, ( , 2021b, Krainer (2021), andPrytz (2021), the complexity of relationships between the stakeholders is the topic of investigation. Here we would like to briefly dwell on the study by Prytz (2021), which reveals not only the complexity, but also dynamics of the various roles of stakeholders in the long run.…”

“…Furthermore, the data corpus on the Teaching Better Mathematics project in Norway that Jaworski and Potari (2021) present consists of reflections of the leading didacticians of the project. Jankvist et al, (2021aJankvist et al, ( , 2021b and Prytz (2021) explored the long-term reform of mathematics education in Sweden as an educational case study that relies on the analysis of relevant documents and insights from past studies. As a matter of fact, in this SI only the national-level To-Do-Math project in Taiwan (Wang et al, 2021) is accompanied by systematic analysis of quantitative data collected at a scale comparable with the scale of the project.…”

“…Research-based innovations differ in their implementability. Drawing on Levine and Cooper (1991), Jankvist et al, (2021a, 2021b refer to implementability of a research-based innovation in an educational context as an indicator of "how realistic and feasible it is for practitioners to implement an innovation arising from interpreted research results" (this issue, italics added). In turn, interpretation of research results is necessary in order to make them accessible for the intended end users.…”