Evidence Advocacy Center released special education resources menu
What can one learn about evidence-based practices?
The Evidence Advocacy Center—an organization dedicated to improving student achievement by supporting educators in applying evidence about effectiveness of teaching procedures, practices, and policies—released a compilation of recommended resources for educators concerned with students with disabilities. The compilation, which the EAC called a “menu,” was assembled by a team of scholars and practitioners who combed through the extensive research abut improving outcomes for students with disabilities and selected resources they considered especially useful for special educators.
EAC’s menu for special education is available for the general public for free. One can find it on the EAC Website at “Special Educaion: Curated Resources Menu.” In addition to content about the group’s goal and a discloser tab that names the members of the team, there are five tabs providing catalogs of the curated resources covering (a) General Resources for Assessment & Intervention for Mathematics, Reading, Writing, & Behavior; (b) Resources for Evidence-Based Interventions for Students with Disabilities in Mathematics; (c) Resources for Evidence-Based Interventions for Students with Disabilities in Reading & Writing; (d) Resources for Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities; and (e) Resources for Writing Quality IEPs.
The menu about special education resources is one eight menus (a ninth is in the works). The others address topics such as issues about language variation, state department concerns, preparation of personnel, parent and family advocacy, and other topics. Readers interested in resources for these areas may peruse the complement of menus from a page called “Research-Base Menus.”