Formative Experiments & Design-Based Research

Purpose

  • To serve the needs and promote the interests of LRA members invested informative experiments (FE) and design-based research (DBR) as a methodological approach to literacy research.
  • To create a supportive, dialogic community of researchers confronting problems, issues, and challenges related to this approach and who wish to share their successes and failures, thus increasing collective wisdom and developing a network of resources.
  • To clarify the parameters of this approach toward developing useful frameworks for conceptualizing, planning, conducting, and reporting FE and DBR. To develop and promote standards of rigor for designing FE and DBR and in collecting and analyzing data.
  • To promote discussions about the fundamental purposes of literacy research, particularly the relation between research, practice, and the enhancement of human well-being.

Committee Members