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

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette K. Klingner ◽  
Alison G. Boardman ◽  
Kristen L. Mcmaster
Keyword(s):  
Research Policy ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
District Leadership ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Strategic Reading ◽  
Collaborative Strategic Reading

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.

scholarly journals Updating the Secondary Transition Research Base: Evidence- and Research-Based Practices in Functional Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-46
Author(s):  
Dawn A. Rowe ◽  
Valerie L. Mazzotti ◽  
Catherine H. Fowler ◽  
David W. Test ◽  
Vickie J. Mitchell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Secondary Transition ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Transition Research ◽  
Research Based Practices ◽  
Do So

Transition education should be grounded in quality research. To do so, educators need information on which practices are effective for teaching students with disabilities transition-related skills. The purpose of this systematic literature review was to identify evidence-based and research-based practices in secondary special education and transition for students with disabilities. This systematic review resulted in the identification of nine secondary transition evidence-based practices and 22 research-based practices across more than 45 different transition-related skills. The range of effects for each of the secondary transition evidence-based and research-based practices identified are also included. Limitations and implications for future research, policy, and practice are discussed.

Is it only ‘What works’ that ‘Counts’ in New Knowledge Economies? Evidence-based Practice, Educational Research and Teacher Education in Australia

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jill Blackmore
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nation States ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Economies ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Research In Education

Recent texts on globalisation and education policy refer to the rapid flow of education policy texts producing or responding to common trends across nation states with the emergence of new knowledge economies. These educational policies are shaping what counts as research and the dynamics between research, policy, and practice in schools, creating new types of relationships between universities, the public, the professions, government, and industry. The trend to evidence-based policy and practice in Australian schools is used to identify key issues within wider debates about the ‘usefulness’ of educational research and the role of universities and university-based research in education in new knowledge economies.

A Scaling-up Approach from Experimental Tunnel to Spray Dryer

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xuan-You Li ◽  
Ireneusz Zbicinski ◽  
Jing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Spray Drying ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Pilot Scale ◽  
Drying Kinetics ◽  
Water Evaporation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Spray Dryer ◽  
Cfd Modelling ◽  
Initial Water

A scaling-up approach from drying of a thin layer wet material in a experimental tunnel to a pilot scale spray drying was developed through determining drying kinetics of quick evaporation process. Maltodextin was selected as solid material in solution to be dried. Critical moisture contents as a function of initial water evaporation rate (drying rate) shows that there is the same variation between the small scale test tunnel and the pilot scale spray dryer. Result of CFD modelling demonstrates that drying kinetics obtained from the small-scale tunnel could be properly applied to scale-up the spray drying process.

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

2013 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janette K. Klingner ◽  
Alison G. Boardman ◽  
Kristen L. McMaster
Keyword(s):  
Scale Up ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Evidence Based Practices

scholarly journals Exploring the scope for Normalisation Process Theory to help evaluate and understand the processes involved when scaling up integrated models of care: a case study of the scaling up of the Gnosall memory service

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Clark ◽  
David Jolley ◽  
Susan Mary Benbow ◽  
Nicola Greaves ◽  
Ian Greaves
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Normalisation Process Theory ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Models ◽  
Integrated Service

PurposeThe scaling up of promising, innovative integration projects presents challenges to social and health care systems. Evidence that a new service provides (cost) effective care in a (pilot) locality can often leave us some way from understanding how the innovation worked and what was crucial about the context to achieve the goals evidenced when applied to other localities. Even unpacking the “black box” of the innovation can still leave gaps in understanding with regard to scaling it up. Theory-led approaches are increasingly proposed as a means of helping to address this knowledge gap in understanding implementation. Our particular interest here is exploring the potential use of theory to help with understanding scaling up integration models across sites. The theory under consideration is Normalisation Process Theory (NPT).Design/methodology/approachThe article draws on a natural experiment providing a range of data from two sites working to scale up a well-thought-of, innovative integrated, primary care-based dementia service to other primary care sites. This provided an opportunity to use NPT as a means of framing understanding to explore what the theory adds to considering issues contributing to the success or failure of such a scaling up project.FindingsNPT offers a framework to potentially develop greater consistency in understanding the roll out of models of integrated care. The knowledge gained here and through further application of NPT could be applied to inform evaluation and planning of scaling-up programmes in the future.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was limited in the data collected from the case study; nevertheless, in the context of an exploration of the use of the theory, the observations provided a practical context in which to begin to examine the usefulness of NPT prior to embarking on its use in more expensive, larger-scale studies.Practical implicationsNPT provides a promising framework to better understand the detail of integrated service models from the point of view of what may contribute to their successful scaling up.Social implicationsNPT potentially provides a helpful framework to understand and manage efforts to have new integrated service models more widely adopted in practice and to help ensure that models which are effective in the small scale develop effectively when scaled up.Originality/valueThis paper examines the use of NPT as a theory to guide understanding of scaling up promising innovative integration service models.

scholarly journals Editors' Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander W. Wiseman ◽  
C. C. Wolhuter
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
International Education ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Comparative And International Education ◽  
Community Of Researchers ◽  
Research In Education ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

The inaugural issue of FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education begins a new chapter in the scholarly and professional discussion of comparative and international education research, policy, and practice. Comparative and international education research has become increasingly isolated from educational policymaking as well as school- and classroom-level decisionmaking as the amount and diversity of research in the field has grown. FIRE is an international, peer-reviewed publication, which seeks to bridge this gap by promoting interdisciplinary scholarship on the use of internationally comparative data for evidence-based and innovative change in educational systems, schools, and classrooms worldwide. FIRE provides an open source and widely accessible platform for disseminating research on education from multiple cultural, organizational and national perspectives. To introduce FIRE to the community of researchers, policymakers, and educators this introduction provides an overview of the journal

Milligram-scale, temperature-controlled ball milling to provide an informed basis for scale-up to reactive extrusion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Andersen ◽  
Hunter Starbuck ◽  
Tia Current ◽  
Scott Martin ◽  
James Mack
Keyword(s):  
Ball Milling ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Reactive Extrusion ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Temperature ◽  
Temperature Controlled

It is demonstrated that temperature-controlled ball milling is a key component for scaling up small-scale mechanochemistry.

scholarly journals Scaling-up an evidence-based intervention for osteoarthritis in real world settings: A pragmatic evaluation using the RE-AIM framework

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Walker ◽  
Annette Boaz ◽  
Amber Gibney ◽  
Zoe Zambelli ◽  
Michael V Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Hip Osteoarthritis ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Academic Health ◽  
National Network ◽  
Gradual Process

Abstract Background : Scaling-up and sustaining effective healthcare interventions is essential for improving healthcare; however, relatively little is known about these processes. In addition to quantitative experimental designs we need approaches that use embedded, observational studies on practice-led, naturally-occurring scale-up processes. There are also tensions between having adequately rigorous systems to monitor and evaluate scale-up well that are proportionate and pragmatic in practice. The study investigated the scale-up of an evidence-based complex intervention for knee and hip osteoarthritis (ESCAPE-pain) within ‘real-world’ settings by England’s 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). Methods : A pragmatic evaluation of the scale-up of ESCAPE-pain using the RE-AIM framework to measure reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance. The evaluation used routine monitoring data collected from April 2014 to December 2019 as part of a national scale-up programme. Results : Between 2014-2018 ESCAPE-pain was adopted by over 110 clinical and non-clinical sites reaching over 9,000 people with osteoarthritis. The programme showed sustained clinical effectiveness (pain, function and quality of life) and high levels of adherence (78.5% completing 75% of the programme) within a range of real world settings. 770 people (physiotherapists and exercise professionals) have been trained to deliver ESCAPE-pain and 84.1% of sites have continued to deliver the programme post-implementation. Conclusions : ESCAPE-pain successfully moved from being an efficacious “research intervention” into an effective intervention within ‘real world’ clinical and non-clinical community settings. However, scale-up has been a gradual process requiring on-going, dedicated resources over 5 years by a national network of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). Whilst the collection of monitoring and evaluation data is critical in understanding implementation and scale-up, there remain significant challenges in developing systems sufficiently rigorous, proportionate and locally acceptable.

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