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Cannella-Malone, Helen I.; Schaefer, John M. – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2017
Although an important part of adult life, individuals with significant disabilities experience low rates of gainful employment. The purpose of this review was to summarize and analyze the literature on teaching vocational skills to individuals with significant disabilities. Sixty-two articles (with 75 experiments) included in this review were…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Severe Disabilities, Vocational Education, Job Training
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Willmann, Marc; Seeliger, Georg M. – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2017
The present paper reports on findings from a systematic journal review study exploring research strategies to investigate inclusive education for pupils with social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties. From a total of 384 articles, published in 19 volumes of the journal "Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties" between 1996 and 2014,…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Journal Articles, Periodicals, Emotional Disturbances
De Mucci, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disability characterized by symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsiveness, which may cause impairment in a variety of cognitive, social, behavioral, and emotional domains. Extensive research has been conducted to determine the best course of treatment for…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Drug Therapy, Behavior Modification, Program Effectiveness
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Zimmerman, Kathleen N.; Ledford, Jennifer R. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Social narratives (e.g., Social Stories™) are common antecedent-based interventions promoted for the purposes of improving prosocial behaviors and reducing challenging behavior for children with and without disabilities. Although they are commonly prescribed and used, their effectiveness has almost exclusively been assessed for children with…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personal Narratives, Intervention
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Lazowski, Rory A.; Hulleman, Chris S. – Review of Educational Research, 2016
This meta-analysis provides an extensive and organized summary of intervention studies in education that are grounded in motivation theory. We identified 74 published and unpublished papers that experimentally manipulated an independent variable and measured an authentic educational outcome within an ecologically valid educational context. Our…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Intervention, Meta Analysis, Effect Size
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Ellingsen, Ryleigh; Clinton, Elias – Educational Research Quarterly, 2017
This manuscript reviews the empirical literature of the TouchMath© instructional program. The TouchMath© program is a commercial mathematics series that uses a dot notation system to provide multisensory instruction of computation skills. Using the program, students are taught to solve computational tasks in a multisensory manner that does not…
Descriptors: Disabilities, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
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Mulcahy, Candace A.; Krezmien, Michael P.; Travers, Jason – Remedial and Special Education, 2016
In this methodological review, the authors apply special education research quality indicators and standards for single case design to analyze mathematics intervention studies for secondary students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). A systematic methodological review of literature from 1975 to December 2012 yielded 19 articles that…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Emotional Disturbances
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Berkeley, Sheri; Kurz, Leigh Ann; Boykin, Andrea; Evmenova, Anya S. – International Journal for Research in Learning Disabilities, 2015
Much is known about how to improve students' comprehension when reading printed text; less is known about outcomes when reading digital text. The purpose of this meta-analysis was to analyze research on the impact of digital text interventions. A comprehensive literature search resulted in 27 group intervention studies with 16,513 participants.…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Meta Analysis, Electronic Publishing, Educational Technology
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Gianoumis, Stamatios; Sturmey, Peter – Behavior Modification, 2012
The literature pertaining to training staff, parents, and peers to implement interventions for individuals with developmental disabilities was reviewed for training procedures that incorporated strategies to promote generalization. The search engines for the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis" and Pubmed[C] were used to find relevant studies.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Developmental Disabilities, Generalization, Research Design
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Trickett, Edison J.; Espino, Susan Ryerson; Hawe, Penelope – Journal of Community Psychology, 2011
Recent discussions about the conduct of community interventions suggest the importance of developing more comprehensive theorizing about their nature and effects. The present study is an effort to infer how community interventions are theorized by the way they are represented in the peer-reviewed scholarly literature. A coding of a random sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Community Programs, Public Health
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Kleingeld, Ad; van Mierlo, Heleen; Arends, Lidia – Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011
Updating and extending the work of O'Leary-Kelly, Martocchio, and Frink (1994), with this meta-analysis on goal setting and group performance we show that specific difficult goals yield considerably higher group performance compared with nonspecific goals (d = 0.80 plus or minus 0.35, k = 23 effect sizes). Moderately difficult and easy goals were…
Descriptors: Field Studies, Goal Orientation, Group Dynamics, Meta Analysis
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Ayala, Guadalupe X.; Vaz, Lara; Earp, Jo Anne; Elder, John P.; Cherrington, Andrea – Health Education Research, 2010
The objective of this study was to examine lay health advisor (LHA) programs designed to promote health among US Latinos and the extent to which educator-only versus educator-plus-bridge programs differed in designs and outcomes achieved. Two independent coders reviewed 128 published articles on LHAs yielding information at two levels: (i) study…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Intervention, Health Behavior, Immigrants
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Shernoff, Elisa Steele; Kratochwill, Thomas R.; Stoiber, Karen Callan – School Psychology Quarterly, 2002
Illustrates the application of the Task Force on Evidence-Based Interventions in School Psychology coding criteria using a single-participant research design study. Concludes that this study possessed several important strengths, including a strong research design, identifiable intervention components, and strong intervention effects for several…
Descriptors: Coding, Intervention, Outcomes of Treatment, Research Design
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Lewis-Snyder, Gretchen; Stoiber, Karen Callan; Kratochwill, Thomas R. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2002
Applies the criteria in the "Procedural and Coding Manual for Review of Evidence-Based Interventions," to a group-based design intervention study. In general, the application of the criteria suggested promising evidence in support of the program. Considerations for interpreting the results of the coding process are discussed with…
Descriptors: Coding, Intervention, Outcomes of Treatment, Research Design
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Ma, Hsen-Hsing – Behavior Modification, 2006
The purpose of the present study is twofold: (a) to compare the validation of percentage of nonoverlapping data approach and percentage of data points exceeding the median of baseline phase (PEM) approach, and (b) to demonstrate application of the PEM approach in conducting a quantitative synthesis of single-subject research investigating the…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Self Control, Comparative Analysis, Meta Analysis