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Evidence-based practice refers to the use of methods or treatments that have been proven to have statistically significant success rates, as opposed to methods that are based on folklore and tradition. Evidence-based decisions are made after reveiwing information from repeated rigorous data gathering. The largest fields using this approach are medicine and nursing, and it's now spreading to juvenile justice and mental health and social services. In a a nutshell, it involves looking at methods based on success rates, rather than just blindly doing things a certain way just because that's how they've always been done.

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