Evidence-Based Practice Goes Beyond Google

Abstract

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is applying research to assist in the selection of interventions that result in increased client quality care. Recently the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (2010), a new accreditation body for recreational therapy education, included standards that state students should obtain knowledge of EBP. Research has shown undergraduate students rely on Google as their primary source of information or research tool. This paper will describe an EBP assignment that includes a context-specific scaffold designed to assist students locate quality sources for the project.

KEYWORDS:

• Evidence-based practice
• Google
• recreational therapy
• scaffolding
• therapeutic recreation