The What Works Clearinghouse: Looking Back on 2018
In 2018, the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) focused on creating online group design training, new tutorials on finding evidence, videos, infographics, and summaries to help users identify and apply relevant research.
Online group design training available
The WWC now offers the entire group design training online, including how to become a WWC-certified reviewer. All users can now access the training, which consists of nine modules, rather than go through the two-day, in-person training to become a WWC-certified reviewer. Since their launch, the training materials have been viewed more than 18,500 times.
Two new tutorials on finding evidence
WWC presentations provide information about the U.S. Department of Education’s evidence definitions used by grant programs.
- Understanding the Department of Education’s Evidence Definitions
- Using the WWC to Find Strong or Moderate Evidence
New and popular resources
- Users viewed literacy resource pages more than 320,000 times this year, including an infographic on how teachers, administrators, and policymakers can easily use the WWC’s literacy resources.
- A new video describes WWC resources for educators, administrators, parents and policymakers.
- The WWC created tools for authors, including a web-based study review guide and reporting guides for regression discontinuity design and group design study authors.
Engaging with the education community
This year, the WWC
- Added more than 300 studies to the Reviews of Individual Studies database, bringing the total to more than 10,600 studies.
- Shared resources and information with over 10,300 followers on Twitter and more than 7,800 followers on Facebook.
- Joined stakeholders from across the country at four conferences.
