What Does it Take to Scale up and Sustain Evidence-Based Practices?

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What Does it Take to Scale up and Sustain Evidence-Based Practices?

Abstract/Description

This article discusses the strategic scaling up of evidence-based practices. The authors draw from the scholarly work of fellow special education researchers and from the field of learning sciences. The article defines scaling up as the process by which researchers or educators initially implement interventions on a small scale, validate them, and then implement them more widely in real-world conditions. Examples of scale-up research are included. The authors discuss challenges to scaling up and sustaining evidence-based practices, followed by factors that can potentially support scaling up, including professional development and district leadership. A case example describes how these issues can play out by highlighting experiences with a Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) scale-up research project in a large urban school district. The article concludes by offering recommendations for research, policy, and practice.

Author/creator

Klingner, Janette K.

Boardman, Alison G.

McMaster, Kristen L.

Date

2013

In publication

Exceptional Children

Volume

79

Issue

3

Pages

195-211

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Empirical

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en Yes

ISSN

0014-4029

DOI

10.1177/001440291307900205

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)

Citation

Klingner, J. K., Boardman, A. G., & McMaster, K. L. (2013). What Does it Take to Scale up and Sustain Evidence-Based Practices? Exceptional Children, 79(3), 195–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/001440291307900205

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