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Olivia Enders; Seth A. King; Brendon Nylen; Lanqi Wang; Oluwatosin Opeoluwa – Behavioral Disorders, 2024
Single-case designs substantiate the effectiveness of interventions for people with disabilities and other populations through the repeated measurement of behavior over time. Consequently, employing accurate and reliable systems of measurement is critical to the validity of single-case designs. Much of the data in single-case research are…
Descriptors: Measurement, Case Studies, Research Methodology, Special Education
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Cook, Bryan G.; Therrien, William J. – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Researchers sometimes conduct a study and find that the predicted relation between variables did not exist or that the intervention did not have a positive impact on student outcomes; these are referred to as null findings because they fail to disconfirm the null hypothesis. Rather than consider such studies as failures and disregard the null…
Descriptors: Publications, Bias, Special Education, Educational Research
Peltier, Corey; Morin, Kristi L.; Bouck, Emily C.; Lingo, Mindy E.; Pulos, Joshua M.; Scheffler, Faye A.; Suk, Andrea; Mathews, Leslie A.; Sinclair, Tracy E.; Deardorff, Malarie E. – Journal of Special Education, 2020
Manipulatives are widely considered an effective practice and have been recommended as an evidence-based practice for students identified with a learning disability when used within the concrete--representational--abstract instructional framework. The aim of the current study was to evaluate single-case experimental designs that implemented a…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Students with Disabilities, Manipulative Materials, Research Design
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Martella, Ronald C.; Nelson, J. Ron; Marchand-Martella, Nancy E.; Sinclair, Tracy E. – International Journal of Special Education, 2019
Educational researchers conduct studies to gather critical empirical evidence in the determination of what are "evidence-based" curricular programs, which in turn, directly inform adoption efforts. The predominate method of validating these programs is through the use of group experimental designs, although single-case designs have also…
Descriptors: Curriculum Evaluation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Research, Evidence Based Practice
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Torrance, Deirdre A. – British Journal of Special Education, 2000
This article outlines how the past decade has witnessed a substantial increase of interest in the nature and extent of bullying in British schools. It presents case study methods as an alternative to the existing quantitative methods that have generally been employed to investigate bullying within schools. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Bullying, Case Studies, Educational Research
Nevin, Ann I., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
The authors evaluated single subject research studies in accordance with the following criteria: Was the study applied, behavioral, reliable, analytic, effective, and generalizable? All of the reviews have been checked for accuracy in two ways. First, each author received feedback from the professor. After each feedback session, authors then…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Feedback, Behavior Disorders, Autism
Kauffman, James M., Ed.; Hallahan, Daniel P., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Special education is now an established part of public education in the United States--by law and by custom. However, it is still widely misunderstood and continues to be dogged by controversies related to such things as categorization, grouping, assessment, placement, funding, instruction, and a variety of legal issues. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational History, Educational Research, Research Design