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The Current State Of Evidence-Based Practices With Classroom Management, Peter Ross, Bruce Sliger
The Current State Of Evidence-Based Practices With Classroom Management, Peter Ross, Bruce Sliger
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Education has been calling for evidence-based practices to help validate it as a bona fide profession (Gable, Tonelson, Sheth, Wilson, & Park, 2012). Lack of evidence-based practices presents an unusual irony in education since the literature has been addressing this research-to-practice gap for years. In particular, evidence based practices in classroom management and discipline have been nearly absent. Skinner noted as far back as 1968 (Skinner, 1968) that most teachers simply incorporate personal experiences into classroom practices rather than embracing science-based methods.