ESN659B Seminar B

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Explore the MORE STRATEGIES tab (linked to Articles tab - see step 4 below)

Evidence-Based Practice is the process of finding studies by teachers and researchers who have observed, surveyed, analyzed, and written about (typically in peer-review journals) their implementation of a teaching strategy or intervention and their evaluation of the process and outcomes..

Including a brief summary of their results in your TPA, with APA style attribution, will support and enrich your selected strategies.

Research Article Features

Confirm that it is a scholarly article. It should be published in a scholarly journal and not a newspaper or popular magazine. The authors should be experts in the field and not journalists. The article must have a reference list. If the article does not have these elements it is not scholarly, and it cannot be a research article.

The article should clearly state that the author(s) conducted research, ran surveys, did experiments, collected data, or otherwise gathered material on their own or with a team of researchers. It must be original research conducted by the authors of the research article, and needs to be identified as such.

A research article is different than a review article, which is a critical evaluation of material that has been previously published. This can be done to assess the state of the literature on a topic (which is a literature review), and to suggest steps for future research.

The abstract often has clues. Look for a sentence that says something like “this study examines…” or “we did research to find…” Such statements indicate that the author probably conducted original research

Source: McConnell Library, Radford University

Use Scholarly Checklist (link below) to help you identify scholarly research / evidence-based articles.