Web Sites for Learning About Best Practices

I thought I'd pass on a useful list of web sites for finding out more about best practices. This list was compiled by Karl Hamner and forwarded to the Evaltalk Listserv. Hope you find it useful. David


On-Line Best Practice Resources

Mental Health & Substance Abuse: SAMHSA’s National Registry of Effective Programs (NREP) provides effective substance abuse and mental health programs for every community at http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/.

The Department of Justice has a wide variety of youth violence prevention resources on its well-organized site at http://www.usdoj.gov/youthviolence.htm.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) is committed to helping colleges and universities reduce alcohol-related problems on their campuses, protect students from harm, and improve quality of life for the entire campus community. To achieve this, NIAAA has created the resource Reducing Alcohol Problems on Campus: A Guide to Planning and Evaluation.
This is available free at http://www.collegedrinkingprevention.gov/Reports/Handbook/default.aspx.
Other related and useful publications can be found at:
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications /guides.htm.

The Department of Education (DOE) has published Identifying and Implementing Educational Practices Supported By Rigorous Evidence: A User Friendly Guide. This guide provides K-12 educational practitioners with user-friendly tools to distinguish practices supported by rigorous evidence from those that are not. It is available at http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/rigorousevid/index.html. More related resources from The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) are at http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ies/ncee/index.html.

The What Works Clearinghouse web site, http://www.whatworks.ed.gov, by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, gathers together current best practices in education. The introduction reads: “On an ongoing basis, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) gathers studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions (programs, products, practices,
and policies). We review the studies that have the strongest design, and report on the strengths and weaknesses of those studies against the WWC Standards so that you know what the best scientific evidence has to say.”


Karl Hamner
www.kmhconsulting.com