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Matthew J. Mayhew; Christa E. Winkler – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2024
Higher education professionals often are tasked with providing evidence to stakeholders that programs, services, and practices implemented on their campuses contribute to student success. Furthermore, in the absence of a solid base of evidence related to effective practices, higher education researchers and practitioners are left questioning what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Practices, Evidence Based Practice, Program Evaluation
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Juan David Parra; D. Brent Edwards Jr. – Critical Studies in Education, 2024
This paper seeks to raise awareness among educational researchers and practitioners of some significant weaknesses and internal contradictions of randomised control trials (RCTs). Although critiques throughout the years from education scholars have pointed to the detrimental effects of this experimental approach on education practice and values,…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Educational Policy
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Morgan Chitiyo; Komlantse M. Gossou; Victor Alasa; Ambumulire Itimu-Phiri; Fumane Khanare; Felix K. Kumedzro; Richard Makoni; Newlin Marongwe; Dominic Oko; Simon G. Taukeni; Emmanuel Zhanda – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2024
Schoolteachers worldwide continue to encounter challenging behavior in their classrooms. As a result, teacher preparation programs are receiving more scrutiny regarding how well they are preparing their teacher candidates to effectively address challenging behavior especially in line with the principles of whole schooling. The overarching purpose…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Teacher Education Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Melinda Wallace; Maria Paredes; Faith Burtamekh, Contributor; Kenwyn Derby, Contributor – WestEd, 2024
Developed for school and district leaders, Family and Communication Engagement (FACE) departments, educators, and all departments charged with engaging families, this playbook offers evidence-based strategies to enhance family engagement in middle schools. It is a comprehensive resource for those seeking to implement broad-based improvements and…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Family Involvement, Evidence Based Practice, Middle Schools
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Barbara D. Goodson; Eleanor Harvill; Carter Epstein; Maureen Sarna; Kyla Brown; Rachel McCormick – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
The set of appendices in this volume is a companion to the report "Federal Efforts Towards Investing in Innovation in Education Through the i3 Fund: A Summary of Grantmaking and Evidence-Building." The goal of the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation Fund (i3) was to build high-quality evidence about effective…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Design, Educational Practices, Educational Innovation
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Christie, Christina A.; Lemire, Sebastian Thomas – American Journal of Evaluation, 2019
Many organizations now have evaluation policies. Because formal evaluation policies intend to frame evaluation practice, it is important to understand the aims of policies and their influence on practice. Evaluation theory is also intended to guide practice; therefore, the extent to which policies are informed by theory is also important to…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Educational Theories, Educational Practices, Program Evaluation
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Boyd, Sally – set: Research Information for Teachers, 2019
A sense of belonging and wellbeing at school influences educational and health outcomes. Here we widen the traditional focus of Assessment News to focus on the use of student wellbeing data in schools. We discuss the Wellbeing@ School (W@S) toolkit that is freely available to support schools to self-review as they examine and monitor student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Data Use, Educational Environment
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Champion, Robby – Learning Professional, 2017
While designs of professional learning have expanded exponentially beyond the required-attendance inservice day workshop model, infusing meaningful data into daily decisions and conversations has not gained as much traction. Leaders of professional learning are increasingly coming under pressure to demonstrate that evidence is not an anathema in…
Descriptors: Data, Evidence Based Practice, Decision Making, Program Evaluation
Figueras-Daniel, Alexandra – Council of Chief State School Officers, 2019
This guide aims to support state education agencies and early education partners develop coherent, research-based policy by guiding thinking, discussion, data collection, and gap analyses of current practices and policies that can lead to more intentional decision making relative to young Dual Language Learners (DLL) and English Learners (EL).…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Preschool Education, Primary Education, Educational Objectives
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Paulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
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Burnett, Cathy – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2017
At a time of increasing calls from policy makers for the use of "hard evidence" in driving decision-making at national and local levels in educational contexts, this article contributes to debates about evidence-based practice in early literacy research. It proposes that a reliance on studies designed to generate 'hard' evidence limits…
Descriptors: Intervention, Emergent Literacy, Evidence Based Practice, Educational Innovation
White, Sheila B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Response to intervention (RTI), an educational reform effort designed to meet the needs of struggling learners, has been adopted by an increasing number of states as a primary component of their educational service delivery model for low-achieving students (Burns et al., 2013; Castillo & Batsche, 2012). RTI models are multi-tiered…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Systems Analysis, Performance Factors, Response to Intervention
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Teacher Education Advancement Network Journal, 2016
In May 2014 Michael Gove Secretary of State for Education announced that there would be a review into Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in the UK. The report was led by Andrew Carter OBE, the Headteacher of a school-centred ITT provider and ITT lead on the Teaching Schools Council. The report was published in January 2015 and one of the principle…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
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Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Powell, Sarah R.; Lembke, Erica S.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2016
Legislations mandates that educators use evidence-based practices (EBPs) that are supported by scientifically based research. EBPs have demonstrated a likelihood to work for students with disabilities. EBPs should match targeted needs of the student receiving the instruction, which sometimes requires educators to search for the best intervention…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Special Needs Students, Intervention
Hughes, Elizabeth M.; Powell, Sarah R.; Lembke, Erica S.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris – Grantee Submission, 2016
Approximately 5 to 7% of school-age students have a learning disability related to mathematics (Shalev, Auerbach, Manor, & Gross-Tsur, 2000), but the percentage of students who experience mathematics difficulty is much greater. For example, results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP; National Center for Education…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Educational Practices, Special Needs Students, Intervention
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