Commentary: Use of Evidence-Based Interventions in Schools: Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We Need to Go

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Hill M. Walker

Hill M. Walker, Ph.D., is a professor of Special Education, Co-Director of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior, and Director of the Center on Human Development, in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. He has a longstanding interest in behavioral assessment and in the development of effective intervention procedures for use in school settings with a range of behavior disorders. He has been engaged in applied research during his entire career, dating from 1966. His research interests include social skills assessment, curriculum development and intervention, longitudinal studies of aggression and antisocial behavior, and the development of early screening procedures for detecting students who are at-risk for social-behavioral adjustment problems and/or later school drop-out. He has been the author or coauthor of many publications through the years. His two most recent books are Interventions for Academic And Behavior Problems II: Preventive and Remedial Approaches, co-edited with Mark Shinn and Gary Stoner, and the second edition of Antisocial Behavior in School: Evidence-Based Practices co-authored with Elizabeth Ramsey and Frank Gresham.