This area features publications and websites that provide more information about the science and practice of implementation. Topics include current research, readiness, and technical assistance.
Implementation Research: A Synthesis of the Literature, by Dean Fixsen, Sandra Naoom, Karen Blase, Robert Friedman, and Frances Wallace
This monograph summarizes finding from the review of the research literature on implementation.
- Scaling-Up Health Systems: An Annotated Bibliography
- Scaling Up Brief: Readiness for Change, by Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Rob Horner, and George Sugai
This brief defines the variables a state or large district leadership team may wish to consider as they determine if they are ready to invest in the scaling-up of an innovation in education.
- Scaling Up Brief: Scaling Up Evidence-based Practices in Education, by Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Rob Horner, and George Sugai
This brief provides a framework that state leadership teams and others can use to develop the capacity to make effective, statewide, and sustained use of evidence-based practices and other innovations.
- Scaling Up Brief: Intensive Technical Assistance, by Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Rob Horner, and George Sugai
This brief defines the term "Intensive Technical Assistance" and briefly illustrate its use in education.
- Implementation Brief: Implementation ― The Missing Link between Research and Practice, by the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN)
This brief makes the case for investing in a human services infrastructure for effective implementation so that effective programs and practices can be widely adopted and used to produce socially significant outcomes.