Council for Exceptional Children: Standards for Evidence-Based Practices in Special Education

Abstract

[...]programs or practices that improve instructor or parent behaviors, even if those behaviors have been shown to improve student outcomes, do not fall within the purview of this approach. [...]reviews of practices should be specific to an outcome area and learner population. In developing the standards, Council for Exceptional Children's (CEC) Evidence-Based Practices Workgroup also drew from a number of other sources for categorizing the evidence base of practices (e.g., What Works Clearinghouse) and incorporated the feedback of 23 anonymous special education researchers who kindly participated in a Delphi study.