TY  - CHAP
AB  - Special educators make countless decisions regarding services for students with disabilities. The evidence-based practice movement in education encourages those decisions be informed by the best available evidence, professional judgment, and client values and context. In this chapter we argue that while evidence is the best basis for making decisions it is imperfect and uncertainty about the evidence-base for decisions will always exist. We outline three classes of evidence and the sources of uncertainty for each. Finally, we describe a framework for integrating these different sources of evidence as a means for increasing confidence in evidence-based decisions.
VL  - 26
SN  - 978-1-78190-429-9, 978-1-78190-430-5/0735-004X
DO  - 10.1108/S0735-004X(2013)0000026004
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0735-004X(2013)0000026004
AU  - Detrich Ronnie
AU  - Slocum Timothy A.
AU  - Spencer Trina D.
ED  - Bryan G. Cook
ED  - Melody Tankersley
ED  - Timothy J. Landrum
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Education and Best Available Evidence: Decision-Making Under Conditions of Uncertainty
T2  - Evidence-Based Practices
T3  - Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 21
EP  - 44
Y2  - 2024/05/14
ER  -