Understanding the Quality of the Science Supporting the Special Education Technology Evidence Base

• Published in: Journal of special education technology Vol. 25; no. 1; p. 63
• Main Author: Edyburn, Dave
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Norman SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC 01-03-2010
• Subjects: Autism; Children & youth; Data Analysis; Educational Practices; Educational technology; Literature Reviews; Sample size; Special education; Studies; Teaching Methods
• ISSN: 0162-6434; 2381-3121
• DOI: 10.1177/016264341002500105

[...] we will conclude by examining how all of these factors apply to accessing and using the special education technology research knowledge base to inform decision making about evidence-based practices. [...] two issues of Career Development for Exceptional Individuals published late in 2009 offer an outstanding series of articles revealing different methodological approaches for analyzing the research evidence concerning evidence-based practices in secondary transition (Test, Fowler, Richter, et al., 2009), functional life skills cumcula (Alwell & Cobb, 2009a), self-determination (Cobb, Lehmann, Newman-Gonchar, & Alwell, 2009), social and communicative interventions on transition outcomes (Alwell & Cobb, 2009), transition planning and the cootdination of interventions (Cobb & Alwell, 2009b), and secondary transition predictors for improving postschool outcomes for students with disabilities (Test, Mazzitti, Mustian, et al., 2009).