Resources for client projects

Evidence Based Practice Resources

Websites and resources cataloging evidence-based practice:

• What Works Clearinghouse - developed by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) (not categorized in ESSA evidence tiers; studies included here meet only most rigorous evidence criteria)
  
• Results First Clearinghouse Database - developed by the Pew Charitable Trusts (not categorized in ESSA evidence tiers; evaluates interventions as rated by eight national databases)
• Best Evidence Encyclopedia - developed by the Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University (not categorized in ESSA evidence tiers)
• Evidence for ESSA - developed by Johns Hopkins University (categorized in ESSA evidence tiers)
• RAND report on school leadership interventions under ESSA - (categorized in ESSA evidence tiers)
• Using Evidence to Create Next Generation High Schools - developed by the U.S. Department of Education (not categorized in ESSA evidence tiers)
• Roadmap to Evidence Based Reform for Low Graduation Rate High Schools - developed by the Every Student Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University

Resources/Reports on Evidenced Based Practices

• ESSA Leverage Points: 50-State Report on Promising Practices for Using Evidence to Improve Student Outcomes, Results for America. 
  
• ESSA Leverage Points: 64 Promising Practices from States for Using Evidence to Improve Student Outcomes, Results for America. 

Other Evidence Based Resources 

• 2 page Evidence Explainer from Results for America

• Non-regulatory guidance from USED that does a nice job of laying out why and how to examine whether/how interventions are working and links to a detailed description of a logic model.

• In MA, "How Do We Know" initiative, including a website with a page on "How do I build and share evidence?"

• Ohio's already developed a slew of resources, including their "Empowed by Evidence FAQs"  that includes a nice chart on the evidence tiers as well as a specific question: Does Tier 4 matter?