Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions

Mcdonald, Sarah Kathryn; Keesler, Venessa; Kauffman, Nils J.; Schneider, Barbara

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“…Definitions of scaling up and out share the notion of seeking to achieve more, reaching more beneficiaries, having greater impact ( [29] (p. 733), [30] (p. 15) and [31] (p. 213)). Scaling implies an innovation moved across boundaries to reach more people [32], in the context of food systems meaning more or larger consumers and producers.…”

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“…In transition terms scaling equates growing a niche, moving into landscape and regime. It occurs through replication [33], a quantitative increase in activity and coverage [3,29,30], or expansion through growth in institutional capacity [30,34]. Expansion and replication lead to innovations occupying more or enlarged niches.…”

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“…A definition used by UN agencies [37] and others [29] describes scaling up as: "expanding, adapting and sustaining successful policies, programmes or projects in different places and over time to reach a greater number of people" [34] (p. 1). This implies spatial expansion from local micro action to meso or macro level [30,33,38]. Others see scaling up as expansion of institutional capacity [31].…”

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Scaling up and out as a Pathway for Food System Transitions

Pitt

Jones

2016

Sustainability

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This paper contributes to the understanding of sustainability transitions by analysing processes of scaling up and out as change pathway. It defines scaling up and out as a distinct form of policy transfer focused on programme implementation, with continuity of actors across jurisdictions. We detail how scaling up and out occurs, introducing a new mechanism to policy transfer frameworks. This is explicated through the case study of Food for Life (FFL), a civil society innovation programme promoting sustainable healthy food in public settings. We highlight why FFL was scaled up and out, how this was achieved, by whom, and the results and success factors. The case study demonstrates the importance of interrogating motivations for transferring policies, and how these influence whether successful outcomes are achieved. This requires a revised framework for analysing policy transfer, with greater attention to the links between motives and outcomes, and a less binary understanding of agents' roles. Where scaling is the mode of policy transfer, we suggest that continuous involvement of at least one transfer agent across the process is significant to success. We conclude by highlighting implications for future research into policy transfer and food system transitions.

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Section: Conceptualising Scaling Up and Scaling Outmentioning

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Section: Conceptualising Scaling Up and Scaling Outmentioning

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Section: Conceptualising Scaling Up and Scaling Outmentioning

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Scaling up and out as a Pathway for Food System Transitions

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Jones

2016

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“…McDonald and colleagues define scale as "the practice of introducing proven interventions into new settings with the goal of producing similarly positive effects in larger, more diverse populations (7)." Part of scale includes modification and transfer, where initial research provides information to potentially improve and refine initial measures and hypotheses, and then replicate the results within similar settings or scale to other settings.…”

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Lessons Learned from Collaborations in Chemistry Assessment across Universities: Challenges in Transfer and Scale

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Holme

2013

ACS Symposium Series

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“…Yet, scale-up research is an emerging field in education that requires further conceptualization (Coburn, 2003;Raudenbush, 2007) and methodological rigor (McDonald, Keesler, Kauffman, & Schneider, 2006).…”

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Large‐scale interventions in science education for diverse student groups in varied educational settings

Lee

Krajcik

2012

J Res Sci Teach

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Current classroom practices in the U.S. and internationally have largely been shaped by changing student demographics and accountability policies. This special issue includes manuscripts that develop conceptual frameworks or report on empirical studies addressing large-scale interventions of educational innovations for diverse student groups in varied educational settings. Understanding issues related to large-scale interventions will be particularly important for the U.S., as the science education system embraces new science standards [National Research Council, [2011] A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas. Washington, DC: National Research Council.]. In our introduction to the special issue, we discuss critical issues in scaling up educational innovations through which large-scale interventions evolve. First, we describe the process of scaling up an educational innovation. Then, we address challenges in scaling up an innovation. Next, we discuss implications that these challenges present to implementation of an innovation and evaluation of its efficacy and effectiveness. Finally, we briefly introduce the articles that appear in this special issue. ß 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 271-280, 2012 Keywords: policy; diversity; equity Internationally, current classroom practices have largely been shaped by changing student demographics and accountability policies. In the U.S., the school-aged population is becoming increasingly more diverse, while achievement gaps across content areas persist and in some areas are increasing. At the same time, more demands are being placed on all students as a result of high-stakes testing and accountability policies. Educational innovations take place against the backdrop of changing student demographics and evolving educational policies.This special issue includes manuscripts that develop conceptual frameworks or report on empirical studies addressing large-scale interventions of educational innovations for diverse student groups in varied educational settings. These manuscripts discuss challenges and failures as well as accomplishments and promises of such efforts. Interventions are defined broadly including, but not limited to, curriculum development, teacher professional

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Scaling-Up Exemplary Interventions

Cited by 131 publications

References 18 publications

Scaling up and out as a Pathway for Food System Transitions

Scaling up and out as a Pathway for Food System Transitions

Lessons Learned from Collaborations in Chemistry Assessment across Universities: Challenges in Transfer and Scale

Large‐scale interventions in science education for diverse student groups in varied educational settings

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