American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - AAHPERD

Issue: April 2010

Evidence-based  Practice in Adapted Physical Education
  Jooyeon Jin & Joonkoo Yun

Abstract: Although implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) has been strongly  advocated by federal legislation as well as school districts in recent years,  the concept has not been well accepted in adapted physical education (APE),  perhaps due to a lack of understanding of the central notion of EBP. The  purpose of this article is to discuss how APE teachers can implement EBP in their  teaching environments. In this article, EBP is defined as the best practice of  integrating individual teaching strategies with the best available evidence to  meet students’ special needs in physical education settings. The three-way  process for successfully implementing EBP includes: (1) creating evidence using  appropriate research design to answer practical questions, (2) disseminating  appropriate evidence to practitioners by a third-party organization and  training future practitioners and current physical education teachers, and (3)  implementing EBP in a five-step process.

Article category: Adapted Physical Education