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 wellbeing. 

Chair - 2017 - 2020
Jamie Colwell
Old Dominion University
864-356-4405
jcolwell@odu.edu

Karen Wohlwend (kwohlwen@indiana.edu), Liaison

Emily Howell (ehowell@iastate.edu), Secretary