Criteria for Identifying Best Practices

 

Innovative Practices are developed to improve student learning.
Criteria:

• Reflects students' needs and changing world he/she lives in
• Purposeful
• Gives early evidence of student learning
• Characterized by processes or methods new for teacher or school

Promising Practices are practices with supporting data to improve student learning.
Criteria:

• Less than 3 years of data
• Evidence of student success
• Potential for replication

Research Based Practices have a body of empirical evidence demonstrating student learning.
Criteria:

• Demonstrated success over time
• Demonstrated effective with specific student populations
• Supported by quantitative research. Could also have support from qualitative research

Validated Washington Models are practices with evidence to prove increased student performance on the new Washington State Assessment and can be replicated.
Criteria:

• Practice demonstrates successful student progress attainment on State accountability measures: 4th, 7th, and 10th
• Third party verification of results
• Comparison or control studies

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This information is provided by:
Office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Special Education
P O Box 47200
Olympia, WA 98504-7200
(360) 725-6088
Fax (360)586-1631
E-mail: dgill@ospi.wednet.edu