Evidence based practice uses research findings to guide instructional techniques rather than opinions or fads. There are three approaches to researching effectiveness: determining what works, when it works best, and how it works through the learning process. Effective research uses multiple methods appropriately to address different questions and looks for experimental control, random assignment, and appropriate measures in experimental comparisons.

1. Chapter 3: Evidence Based Practice

2. What is Evidence Based Practice?
 Design can be formed on fads, opinions, politics, or ideology.
 Instructional techniques should be based on effective research findings.
 Use research based knowledge as a guide, not as a means of telling you what to do

3. What are the three approaches to research
on instructional effectiveness?
 Identifying methods that improve learning
 Three ways to research instructional effectiveness:
 What works? Will the instructional method being used cause learning.
 When does it work? Finding which methods works best for the learner
 How does it work? Learning process that determine the effectiveness of instructional method

4. What makes a research method useful?
 Only focusing on one research method is not helpful.
 It is noted multiple research methods can be helpful because different methods address different
questions
 Using the appropriate method for the research question; the method must fit the question.

5. What to look for in Experimental
Comparisons?
 Look into the following for Experimental Comparisons:
 1. Experimental control
 2. Random assignment
 3. Appropriate measures

6. Why an experiment may show no
instructional effect?

7. The remaining unknown about Evidence
Based practice.
 There is still a need of a larger amount of research evidence that includes each of the major
instructional methods.