ABSTRACT
As a nation without natural resources, Singapore believes that the impact of global political and economic change is redressed best through change in education practices (Gopinathan, 2001). However, there is a dearth of international benchmarks (Luke et al., 2005). Toward this end, the National Institute of Education established the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP) in 2003, with a S$47 million commitment over a five-year period to enhance pedagogical innovation and classroom practice, build the national research infrastructure, and train a new generation of educational researchers (ibid.). As new interventions are initiated in schools, there is a need to gather information about the factors that enhance or inhibit educational change in Singapore’s context, create a common pool of knowledge among decision-makers about the characteristics of successful change, and develop tools for evaluating the impact of change.
