GAP Analysis

Current Practices

Recommended Goals

Action Plan

1. INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE DEFICITS: Inadequate training gives practitioners

· limited awareness of EBPs,

· limited skills re: understanding and collecting data

· better state or discipline wide identification of EBPs and the competencies needed to implement them

· change higher education prep programs to make sure new practitioners are ready to implement

· develop models for on-job staff training that emphasizes EBPs

Determine what centralized policy bodies have the most clout with

1. public education policy making, and

2. decisions about higher education curricula

2. INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE DEFICITS: Practitioners don’t implement known EBPs

· Develop and export incentive/motivation systems

3. DISCIPLINARY INFORMATION DEFICITS: no available evidence

· relevant to some problems;

· on when and how one can safely generalize from evidence collected re: one population or problem to other populations or problems

4. SYSTEMS DEFICITS: Systems in which practitioners work don’t demands, support, or monitor implementation integrity

· promote mechanisms to monitor treatment integrity (PBS)

5. SYSTEMS IMPEDIMENTS: many systems in which practitioners work act counter to good implementation of EBPs (e.g., set policies or adopt curricula that are not evidence-based)