ABSTRACT
The website for Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ), a highly respected refereed journal focused on adult and continuing education, lists many different types of studies published in its pages including “survey research, experimental designs, case studies, ethnographic observations and interviews, grounded theory, phenomenology, historical investigations, and narrative inquiry” (n.d.). The website does not explicitly mention educational design research (EDR; McKenney & Reeves, 2012) or any of its variants such as design-based research (DBR), development research, formative experiments, design-based implementation research, or simply design research (Van den Akker, Gravemeijer, McKenney, & Nieveen, 2006). A search for papers that could be characterized as EDR in AEQ and related adult and continuing educational research journals revealed no such studies.
