Practice-Based Inquiry:
Bringing Professional Practice into FOCUS™

Why is Practice-Based Inquiry valuable?

• It provides new tools to greatly strengthen the effectiveness and usefulness of school accountability systems.
  
• It directly assesses the quality of the performance of complex, particular, actual practice of practicing professionals.
  
• It provides the framework for carefully building inquiry protocols and procedures that ensure that the resulting findings are valid and legitimate.
  
• It brings professional judgment out of the closet and transforms it into a tool for objective inquiry.
  
• It is a rigorous reformulation of century-old procedures for conducting professional peer inquiry by teams.
  
• It directly assesses how well a particular practice leads to the desired results.
  
• It opens up the “black-box” between inputs and outputs that is so often a major component of variable research designs.
  
• It provides a better understanding of the action that will improve the professional practice.
  
• It provides a new foundation for strengthening critical systems of professional development, leadership, institution improvement and public accountability

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