Expanded participation and new forms of evidence: breakthroughs reach previously excluded populations and may require new metrics¶
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q1 i? A breakthrough innovation extends meaningful participation to populations previously excluded by design or circumstance and may require new metrics to capture its impact. → Friedman 2026
Evidence¶
Friedman 2026¶
Friedman, K., Benge-Steele, C., & Woods, A.D. (2026). ATS Field Note: Breakthrough Innovation. ATS Hub Field Note Series. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/297
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Conceptual definition of the expanded-participation factor. The article illustrates it with Sesame Street, which "expanded participation by reaching children from across the world and generated new forms of evidence by using embedded research and formative testing to understand and improve learning at scale."
"Extend meaningful participation to populations previously excluded by design or circumstance and may require new metrics to capture their impact."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Discontinuity: breakthrough innovations introduce new models that depart from dominant approaches — related
- Substantial improvement in outcomes: breakthroughs change learning or life trajectories rather than improving incrementally — related
- Generativity: breakthroughs enable follow-on innovations, adaptation, and scaling through recombination — related
- System reconfiguration: breakthroughs reshape relationships among actors, capabilities, and institutional routines — related
- Sesame Street is presented as a model of research-based educational media whose curriculum-plus-formative-and-summative-research model drove measurable impact — related
- Agent-based educational science is positioned as reconfiguring, not replacing, empirical educational research — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Generative AI is an arrival technology that entered classrooms before any pedagogical evidence base could form — related
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Expanded participation and new forms of evidence: breakthroughs reach previously excluded populations and may require new metrics |
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