Contemporary special education research
Subtitle: syntheses of the knowledge base on critical instructional issues
By: edited by Russell Gersten, Ellen P. Schiller, and Sharon Vaughn.
Contributors: Gersten, Russell Monroe, 1947-; Schiller, Ellen P.; Vaughn, Sharon, 1952-
Series: The LEA series on special education and disability
Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780805828801
Subjects: People with disabilities -- Education -- Research -- United States -- Methodology; Special education -- Research -- United States -- Methodology; Meta-analysis
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: What instruction works for students with learning disabilities? : summarizing the results from a meta-analysis of intervention studies / H. Lee Swanson; title: The professional knowledge base on instructional practices that support cognitive growth for English-language learners / Russell Gersten and Scott Baker; title: Reading differences between low-achieving students with and without learning disabilities : a meta-analysis / Doug Fuchs ... [et al.]; title: How reading outcomes of students with disabilities are related to instructional grouping formats : a meta-analytic review / Batya Elbaum ... [et al.]; title: A meta-analysis of positive behavior support / Janet G. Marquis ... [et al.]; title: Technology, literacy, and disabilities : a review of the research / Cynthia M. Okolo ... [et al.]; title: Research synthesis : implications for research and practice / Ellen P. Schiller and David B. Malouf; title: The methodology of meta-analysis / Harris Cooper, Jeffrey C. Valentine, and Kelly Charlton; title: Policy decisions in special education : the role of meta-analysis / Kenneth A. Kavale and Steven R. Forness.