Evidence-based practice
Strategy
Translational research strategy 2024-2027
The strategy embeds collaboration between researchers, mental health practitioners and people with lived and living experiences in care settings to improve outcomes for consumers, carers, family, supporters and kin. It is comprised of four key elements: strategic goals, focus area, work and enabling pillars, and implementation principles.
Literature review
The impact of context on evidence-based practices: a rapid literature scan on formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning
Teachers, educators and policymakers need to determine how applicable education evidence is to their context when considering adopting new evidence-based practices. This rapid literature review examines the effectiveness of three well-established, evidence-based teaching practices: formative assessment, explicit instruction and mastery learning. It investigates the impact of these practices on student achievement and whether this varied...
Report
Elements of successful evidence centres: foundations for a Disability Employment Centre of Excellence
This study reports on the elements of effective evidence centres, with the particular aim of informing the design of the future Disability Employment Centre of Excellence. It identifies five core, overlapping elements of centre design, providing an evidence base to inform decision-making.
Article
Building an evidence movement in Australian education
For nearly 10 years, Evidence for Learning (E4L) has helped great practice become common practice in schools and early childhood education by incubating a new national knowledge broker. Before E4L, research evidence was available for some, but not all. As the service moves on from Social Ventures Australia, the authors reflect on its contribution to...
Briefing paper
Using a staged approach to implementation
This explainer outlines the key ideas for taking a staged approach to implementation. Using a staged approach to implementation is helpful for understanding implementation as a process that takes place in phases over time. The stages highlight a school's key activities and considerations throughout the implementation of an evidence-based practice and demonstrate that no one...