Educational Research Toolkit: A Model of Adapting Innovation

Abstract

The subject of this article is education research, but its focus is on its instrument the toolkit and more specifically in modeling it, in order to provide stakeholders a tool that encouraged them to integrate innovations, as well as incorporate technology, reform curricula, and foster inclusion of new educational approaches that lead to develop best practices from/to students and improve their education. To achieve these goals the paper examines three complementary educational research approaches: first, how a toolkit can become a modeling mechanism of educational research; second, what theoretical considerations or conceptual backgrounds are required to justify a toolkit modeling; and third, how innovations, utilizing a generalized framework can create, through learning and teaching adjustments, new educational processes. As a result, the paper presents a toolkit modeling approach that proceeds inductively, combining theoretical constructs and conceptual reasoning with practical applications to yield a coherent explanatory educational process adapting innovation, among others, to education.