Benefits+of+Design+Based+Research

These are some benefits of Design Based Research (DBR):
 * 1) Levin & O'Donnel (1999): to close the credibility gap
 * 2) Lagemann (2002): develop more usable knowledge
 * 3) Reeves & Herrington (2005): more socially responsible
 * 4) Barabab & Squire (2004): practical contribution (education practice, tangible products, program that can be adapted)
 * 5) Messick (1992): providing consequential evidence or validity
 * 6) Reeves (2000): better ties between theory & practices, between researchers & practitioners
 * 7) Barab & Squire (2004); research participants allowed to improve practice & generate evidence-based claim about learning
 * 8) Cobb, diSessa, Lehrer, & Schauble (2003): the design context is subject to test & revision, and the successive iterations that result play a role similar to that of systematic variation in experiment

Critique to DBR:
 * time consuming
 * some lack of theoretical foundation & does not attempt to generate findings
 * difficult to analyze the huge number of data
 * difficult to make generalizations across participants