[Re: https://www.hifa.org/dgroups-rss/call-submissions-good-practices ]
Thanks for this post.
I briefly browsed the repository and I do not see any filter qualifying the type of evidence underlying each practice. This would mean, for example, that a long, comparative, large scale and robustly evaluated practice would be indistinguishable from a short, pilot, brief experience supported by anecdotal evidence. Is that so?
Although “For Authors” use the term evidence-informed, I wonder whether you could elaborate about what would that means for submitted experiences (any type of evidence?). Thanks for clarifying.
Finally, is there any mechanism to document ineffective or harmful practices? This could be important for those practices that could show benefits due to chance but that are ineffective or harmful when thoroughly evaluated. In other words, the repository could be subject to serious publication bias.
Xavier
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