Develop a Robust Research Design

Develop a Robust Research Design

Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development

The Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development describes the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s and the U.S. Department of Education (ED)’s shared understandings of the roles of various types or “genres” of research in generating evidence about strategies and interventions for increasing student learning.

Companion Guidelines on Replication & Reproducibility in Education Research

A Supplement to the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development

Checklists for the Common Guidelines for Education Research and Development

This document includes six checklists created by the Evaluation Resource Center for Advanced Technological Education (EvaluATE).  These checklists  may be used by researchers and evaluators to check for adherence to the National Science Foundation's Common Guidelines.

ITEST Instrument Database 

Beginning in 2009, the ITEST resource centers (LRC and STELAR) asked active ITEST projects to report their use of externally developed and reliable instruments to collect data on their project outcomes.The STELAR website now houses a database of instruments. All of the instruments listed were used to some extent by at least one ITEST project. The ITEST project is listed under the "Related Projects" heading on the instrument's page. Only instruments that could be located online are included in the database.