Replication of Special Education Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Makel ◽  
Jonathan A. Plucker ◽  
Jennifer Freeman ◽  
Allison Lombardi ◽  
Brandi Simonsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Journal Citation Report ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Publication History ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
History Of

Increased calls for rigor in special education have often revolved around the use of experimental research design. However, the replicability of research results is also a central tenet to the scientific research process. To assess the prevalence, success rate, and authorship history of replications in special education, we investigated the complete publication history of every replication published in the 36 journals categorized by ISI Web of Knowledge Journal Citation Report as special education. We found that 0.5% of all articles reported seeking to replicate a previously published finding. More than 80% of these replications reported successfully replicating previous findings. However, replications where there was at least one author overlapping with the original article (which happens about two thirds of the time) were statistically significantly more likely to find successful results.

Using relational cultural theory in education research design

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Swenson Ticknor ◽  
Paige Averett
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Relational Cultural Theory ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Similar Work ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Teacher Education Research

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an emic view of how one researcher negotiated complex relationships in teacher education research and learned to employ the principles of the relational cultural theory (RCT) to create a research design aimed at building and sustaining relationships with participants. Design/methodology/approach The authors offer illustrative qualitative data examples from teacher education research to highlight complexities in research relationships, essential elements of the RCT, and the affordances RCT can offer qualitative researchers invested in similar work. Findings By engaging pre-service teachers and ourselves as mutually engaged in this process, the authors put into practice a sense of community and relationship building the authors hope pre-service teachers will practice with their future students. Research limitations/implications This paper provides a qualitative research design employing tenets of the RCT which centers relationships as critical to the research process. The authors offer affordances and limitations to using the RCT in research. Practical implications Several affordances are offered to researchers interested in engaging in similar work. Originality/value This paper offers an original perspective of how one researcher in teacher education negotiated complex relationships and learned to employ the principles of the RCT within these to build a research design aimed at widening research and practice in teacher education through productive and lasting relationships.

What is an anthropology of gesture?

Gesture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lempert
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Human Variation ◽  
Sociocultural Context ◽  
Gesture Studies ◽  
History Of

Abstract For gesture research outside anthropology, the promise – and challenge – of anthropological method stems from one or more of its core commitments: its pursuit of human variation, both diachronic and synchronic; its insistence on naturalistic rather than experimental research design; and its integrative sensibility that situates human behavior in relation to an expansive sociocultural context. This essay reflects on this last sensibility. As we envision an anthropology of gesture and weigh its potential for gesture studies, we should pause and reflect on the fitful history of gesture in anthropology. As a parable for the present, I revisit a neglected anthropological voice from twentieth-century gesture research: Ray L. Birdwhistell, whose ambitious postwar science of kinesics teamed film-based microanalysis with American linguistic structuralism. At stake in Birdwhistell’s work was a problem that looms large here, that of how and at what cost a science of gesture can contextualize its object integratively.

Structural Equation Modeling in Special Education Research

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan D. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Multivariate Data ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Equation Modeling

Structural equation modeling is a method for analysis of multivariate data from both nonexperimental and experimental research. the method combines a structural model linking latent variables and a measurement model linking observed variables with latent variables. its use in special education research has been limited to date, but the approach offers promise as a method useful in theory-based research. a nontechnical introduction to the method and cautions concerning the limits of its use are presented.

Personal Thoughts on Early Childhood Special Education Research: An Historical Perspective, Threats to Relevance, and Call to Action

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip S. Strain
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Research Funding ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Early Childhood Special Education ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Individual Participant ◽  
Funding Mechanisms

This article is based on my 2016 keynote address at the Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Conference, Louisville, Kentucky. Historical tendencies as well as current day research funding mechanisms and priorities are presented. I argue for a more field-initiated research process, a focus on individual participant needs, and a more thoughtful study of factors that lead practitioners and administrators to adopt, use with fidelity, and sustain the use of DEC’s Recommended Practices.

Summarizing Special Education Research

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-250
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Scruggs ◽  
Margo A. Mastropieri
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Education Research

A Note on the Publication History of John Polidori's The Vampyre

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 330-343
Author(s):  
Fabio Camilletti
Keyword(s):  
Textual Criticism ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Publication History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Opening Up

It is generally assumed that The Vampyre was published against John Polidori's will. This article brings evidence to support that he played, in fact, an active role in the publication of his tale, perhaps as a response to Frankenstein. In particular, by making use of the tools of textual criticism, it demonstrates how the ‘Extract of a Letter from Geneva’ accompanying The Vampyre in The New Monthly Magazine and in volume editions could not be written without having access to Polidori's Diary. Furthermore, it hypothesizes that the composition of The Vampyre, traditionally located in Geneva in the course of summer 1816, can be postdated to 1818, opening up new possibilities for reading the tale in the context of the relationship between Polidori, Byron, and the Shelleys.

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