The Council for Exceptional Children's Division for Research (CEC-DR) is pleased to introduce a special issue designed to update and advance quality indicators for research in special education, advancing work originally published in a 2005 special issue of Exceptional Children (Volume 71, Issue 2). Then, as now, special education research has been characterized by a “long and cherished tradition” of diverse research methods (Graham, 2005, p. 135).
Research methods in each area have advanced considerably since 2005. Thus, the articles in this 2023 special issue provide guidance for researchers who are conducting research that will continue to move the field of special education forward.