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Measuring the Outliers
Content type: Journal Article
Out-of-level testing is an underused strategy for addressing the needs of students who score in the extremes, and when used wisely it could provide educators with a much more accurate picture of what students know. Out-of-level testing has been shown to be...
Successful Transition of Students With Disabilities to 21st-Century College and Careers
Content type: Journal Article
With the federal call to action that by 2020 all students will graduate from high school ready for college and a career, schools are focusing on increased academic preparation. For students with disabilities, academic preparation alone may not be enough to...
Doing It MySELF
Content type: Journal Article
Increased focus on participation in transition planning for individuals with disabilities expands the need for effective interventions to support their success. This paper describes the use of a naturalistic self-monitoring protocol designed to increase...
Avoiding Substantive Errors in Individualized Education Program Development
Content type: Journal Article
The primary charge of special educators is to provide eligible students with disabilities a special education that confers a free appropriate public education (FAPE). The U.S. Supreme has held that a FAPE consists of two types of student rights: Procedural...
Does Cognitively Focused Instruction Improve the Academic Performance of Low-Achieving Students?
Content type: Journal Article
Stakeholders are debating the value of cognitively focused instruction for students who have not benefited from a skills-based approach. Much of the discussion, however, is occurring without recognition of research that has been conducted in the past 2...
Patterns of Referral Recommendations for Ethnically Diverse Children in Subsidized Child Care
Content type: Journal Article
It is important for researchers and practitioners to understand how early referral decisions are made in communities because the long-term consequences of an at-risk child being referred (or not) to an agency for evaluation and intervention are profound...
Response to Specific Training for Students With Different Levels of Mathematical Difficulties
Content type: Journal Article
The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of specific, individualized training for students with different levels of mathematical difficulties. Fifty-four students, with either severe or mild math difficulties, were assigned to individualized...
Research on Giftedness and Gifted Education
Content type: Journal Article
Gifted education has a rich history and a solid if uneven research base. As policy makers and educators increasingly turn their attention to advanced students and educational excellence, the time is ripe for a dispassionate analysis of the field’s...
Comparative Study of Bullying Victimization Among Students in General and Special Education
Content type: Journal Article
Research on bullying is an important avenue for understanding the social integration of students in special education. Focused on 3,305 students who self-reported victimization of two to three times per month or more, this study compared the pattern of...
Predicting the Academic Achievement of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students From Individual, Household, Communication, and Educational Factors
Content type: Journal Article
Research suggests that the academic achievement of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students is the result of a complex interplay of many factors. These factors include characteristics of the students (e.g., hearing thresholds, language fluencies, mode of...