ABSTRACT
R&D refers to research and development activity both quantitative and qualitative. It is a powerful change process in its own right which pervades much of our endeavour in the educational world.
There is now a belief that some of the large-scale educational change initiatives of the 1960s and 1970s were less effective than they could have been and less efficient in their use of resources, partly because of an assumption that research findings could easily be transferred into classroom practice. This is no doubt a simplification, but is a useful issue on which to start in considering a model of research and development to apply in school.
