Scoping Review of Equity in Educational Collaborations, 295 Articles

Samantha Shewchuk's scoping review examines how equity is conceptualized and operationalized in collaborative education research. The work involved a systematic search yielding 7,123 records, which were screened down to 295 open-access articles for analysis. It proposes a unifying Equity-Centered Collaboration Framework based on a mixed-methods analysis of goals, processes, and outcomes.

Use Cases

• Developing evaluation metrics for collaborative projects based on the identified equity dimensions of participatory, relational, and distributional processes.
• Informing the design of co-creation initiatives using the recurring themes of shared decision-making, culturally responsive practice, and attention to structural inequities.
• Training facilitators on equity-centered collaboration using the proposed framework that situates equity across goals, processes, and outcomes.
• Conducting meta-analyses of collaborative research literature based on the extracted data from 295 articles.

Strengths

• Systematic methodology involved screening 7,123 records to a final set of 295 articles.
• Mixed-methods analytic strategy combined computational text analysis with qualitative thematic synthesis.
• Explicit definitions of equity were identified and analyzed in 58 studies.
• Framework is derived from data extracted at three analytic levels: goals, processes, and outcomes.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 239.7 KB PDF document, which is a tiny file containing a review article, not a primary data collection.
• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; the content is textual analysis, not structured data.
• Freshness should be verified; the last update date is 2026-06-04, which is a future date and may be a placeholder.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Samantha Shewchuk

Collection Method

Systematic scoping review of academic databases using automated and manual screening processes.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 05:40:56; freshness should be verified.