Scaffolding The Cultivation of Evidence-Based Practice

Universities have a responsibility to help management students to develop skills in critical thinking and to adopt evidence-based practice. Using a case-study as an exemplar, participants in this professional development workshop will create a high-level action plan to build students’ evidence-based practice skills. We will explore barriers that students face in cultivating an evidence-based practice, present three scaffolds that have been successfully used to overcome these barriers and explore alternative solutions that may benefit the workshop participants’ students. Reflective of the online learning environment of the case-study, the scaffolds align with Community of Inquiry’s three presences – social, teaching and cognitive.