Evidence-Based Practices
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What works in education? Is there valid evidence that programs and practices we use--or might consider using--are effective?
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The purpose of the Evidence-Based Practices group
This group is resourced by a number of Websites which provide information to educators (and others) about the results of educational research (and other social research). Here is a brief list of them to get us started:
The Best Evidence Encyclopedia, which has provided the related links below, is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences is the best-known, publically-funded "what works " clearinghouse in the U.S.
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that disseminates systematic reviews of programs in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.
The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy's Social Programs That Work website provides the results of studies based on the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's methods for determining evidence.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at every stage of development and provides social science research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children.
The Promising Practices Network features summaries of evaluated programs that improve outcomes for children.
The University of Colorado's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence started a project in 1996, called Blueprints for Violence Prevention, which has identified 11 prevention and intervention programs that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness.
As other resources similar to these become known to us, let's add them to this initial list.
Here's an additional resource:
The U.K.-based Educational Evidence Portal allows you to search across a selected range of websites which publish educational research or to search its own database of indexed resources.
The Best Evidence Encyclopedia, which has provided the related links below, is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.
The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences is the best-known, publically-funded "what works " clearinghouse in the U.S.
The Campbell Collaboration is an international research network that disseminates systematic reviews of programs in education, crime and justice, and social welfare.
The Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy's Social Programs That Work website provides the results of studies based on the U.S. Office of Management and Budget's methods for determining evidence.
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at every stage of development and provides social science research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children.
The Promising Practices Network features summaries of evaluated programs that improve outcomes for children.
The University of Colorado's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence started a project in 1996, called Blueprints for Violence Prevention, which has identified 11 prevention and intervention programs that meet a strict scientific standard of program effectiveness.
As other resources similar to these become known to us, let's add them to this initial list.
Here's an additional resource:
The U.K.-based Educational Evidence Portal allows you to search across a selected range of websites which publish educational research or to search its own database of indexed resources.
Discussion Forum
What constitutes effectiveness? 1 Reply
Started by Skip Zilla. Last reply by Ian Carmichael Nov. 29, 2008.
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Comment by Eemah Martha on October 17, 2009 at 2:42am - Thank you for this group. Lots of great resources and information has been wonderfully compiled. Thanks so much for this labor.
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Comment by Skip Zilla on January 24, 2009 at 12:26am - We had a good series of Forum discussions several months ago on the book The Courage to Teach, Kathryn. You might want to click on the Forum tab and look for them. Your concerns and caring about your students as individual persons is heartening professionally. Your students are very fortunate that you see them as you do. Thanks for the comments.
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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on January 23, 2009 at 11:34pm - Oops...I hit the "Add Comment" button by mistake...I believe that I will only be effective when I engage every student; "no child left behind" by my own calculations. I don't remember the ones who seemingly meet with success, as much as I remember the ones I lose....
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Comment by Kathryn L. Keene on January 23, 2009 at 11:30pm
- Okay! I feel like a stalker...I'm following Skip and Ian constantly!...But how could one not join this group?!? I must be honest; I have kids who are sometimes (often?) bored in my classroom (that's tough to admit). There are so many personalities, intelligence strengths, and backgrounds (Maslow...can they be the best they can be...with the complications they bear?...no matter what I do?)
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Comment by Ian Carmichael on November 27, 2008 at 10:27pm
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Great group spot, Skip,
Thanks for the range of resources already.
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