Balancing the need for pilot-testing with the goal of scaled change is a common challenge to community college reform efforts¶
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q2 i? Reform efforts face the difficulty of balancing a real need for pilot-testing with the ultimate goal of scaled change. → Nan L. Maxwell and Ann E. Person 2016
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Nan L. Maxwell and Ann E. Person 2016¶
Nan L. Maxwell and Ann E. Person, editors. (2016). Comprehensive Reform for 21st Century Success: New Directions for Community Colleges. Mathematica. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/comprehensive-reform-for-21st-century-success-new-directions-for-community-colleges
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In introducing the volume, the editors identify common challenges emerging across the chapters, naming "the difficulty of balancing a real need for pilot-testing with the ultimate goal of scaled change." No quantitative result is printed for this observation.
"First, the difficulty of balancing a real need for pilot-testing with the ultimate goal of scaled change."
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Related Claims¶
- Assessing the impacts of a package of interventions whose pieces touch the entire student population is a common reform challenge — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- An innovation foreign to the rest of its system tends to be rejected; lasting change needs a coordinated bundle of innovations. — related
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Balancing the need for pilot-testing with the goal of scaled change is a common challenge to community college reform efforts |
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Balancing the need for pilot-testing with the goal of scaled change is a common challenge to community college reform efforts |
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