Closing the knowledge gap with narrative visualizations
Lessons from a research-practice partnership promoting multilingual students' academic success
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22162227 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julian M Siebert (0000-0002-0472-4677, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2504-284X • E-ISSN: 2504-284X |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/feduc.2025.1632345 |
| OpenAlex | W4412838183 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
This paper addresses the use of narrative visualizations as an effective way to improve communication, engagement, and knowledge transfer in research-practice partnerships (RPPs). I report on the experience of developing a narrative visualization reporting research findings to educators/school leaders in an RPP focused on providing more equitable access to high school mathematics courses for multilingual students [referred to as English learners (ELs) in the US]. The narrative visualization was intended to allow easy interpretation of information on: (i) student rates of completion of courses that are critical to becoming eligible for college admission; (ii) student mathematics course trajectories; and (iii) mathematics course placement decisions. Using the notion of graphical excellence, I identify specific visualization strategies and features that improve the quality of the narrative visualization and support practitioners use of them. Drawing on liberatory design thinking, I discuss how this form of reporting findings builds trust and facilitates engagement between partners, increases practitioners' agency, and thus creates more equitable power dynamics in RPPs and for the multilingual students at the core of the one discussed here
General partnership · Knowledge management · Mathematics education · Narrative · Political science · Computer Science · Data Visualization and Analytics · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Online Learning and Analytics · Psychology
Equitable Access for Secondary English Learner Students
Beyond the English Learner Label
Narrative Visualization
Principles of Collaborative Education Research With Stakeholders
What are the conditions under which research-practice partnerships succeed
Fostering educational improvement with research-practice partnerships
Long-term English learners’ mathematics course trajectories
Spotlight on “Long-Term English Language Learners”
Making meaning, doing math
Introduction
How Can Research-Practice Partnerships Advance Multilingual Learner Equity? A Case Study of Partnership with State-Education-Agency Leaders
Integrated knowledge translation
Learning at the Boundaries of Research and Practice
Leveled and Exclusionary Tracking
Tracking and High School English Learners
Closing the Gap
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