Evidence Based Practice

Resources from the book: The New School Learning Commons

Foundational Ideas

•    Sawyer, R. Keith, ed.  The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

•    Popham, W. James. TransFormative Assessment. ASCD, 2008.

Professional Resources:

•    Carol-Bruce, Cathy. Creating Equitable Classrooms Through Action Research. Corwin Press, 2007.

•    Chaplin, Connie, David V. Loertscher, and Nancy A.S. Miller. Sharing the Evidence: School Library Assessment Tools and Resources. 2nd ed. Hi Willow Research & Publishing, 2008.

•    Clauset, Karl H. Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities: Improving Student Learning Through the Whole Faculty. Corwin Press, 2008.

•    Costa, Arthur L. The School as a Home for the Mind. Corwin Press, 2008.

•    Farmer, Lesley. How to Conduct Action Research: A Guide for Library Media Specialists. AASL, 2002.

•    Habits of Mind http://www.habits-of-mind.net/

•    Kelly, M.G. (Peggy) and Jon Haber. Resources for Student Assessment. ISTE, 2006.

•    Koechlin, Carol  and Sandi Zwaan.  Build Your Own Information Literate School. Hi Willow Research & Publishing, 2006.

•    Loertscher, David V. and Ross Todd. We Boost Achievement. Hi Willow Research & Publishing, 2006.

•    Reeves, Douglas B. Reframing Teacher Leadership to Improve Your School. ASCD, 2008.

•    Clauset, Karl H., Dale W. Lick, and Charlene U. Murphy. Schoolwide Action Research for Professional Learning Communities. Corwin Press, 2008. 

Other Resources

•    OSLA Toolkit http://www.accessola.com/osla/toolkit/intro.html

•    Project Achievement http://www.davidvl.org/achieve.html

•    Building Evidence Based Evidence through Action Research http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vharada/vi-Building%20Evidence-12-03-jav.htm

•    Action Research in the Grand Erie District School Board http://www.actionresearch.ca/

Professional Organizations:

•    CARET Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technology http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=resources

•    IES Institute of Educational Sciences http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/

•    American Educational Research Association http://www.aera.net/

•    International Association of Learning Sciences http://www.isls.org/index.html

Over to You

Please add other resources connected to evidence based practice here:

•  The journal  Evidence Based Library and Information Practice published an entire issue on evicence based practice in school libraries at: http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/EBLIP