The booklet describes studies undertaken by the Washington Research Organization (UWRO) to examine generalization processes with severely handicapped students. Section one provides background information on the UWRO, including UWRO's advisory committee, communication with other institutes for research in education of the severely handicapped, and…

Three factors tend to remove classroom teachers from any direct benefits from formal research: (1) the difficulty of replicating the exact circumstances of the study in the classroom; (2) the scarcity of research which claims to show a "significant difference"; and (3) the complexity of reporting, in formal research journals and reports,…

In this book, which applies the state of the art in qualitative research to special education, qualitative research is used as a generic term for investigative methodologies described variously as ethnographic, naturalistic, anthropological, field research, or participant-observer research. Chapter 1 introduces and defines qualitative research and…