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Pasteur's Quadrant as the Bridge Linking Rigor with Relevance
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Smith, Garnett J.; Schmidt, Matthew M.; Edelen-Smith, Patricia J.; Cook, Bryan G. – Exceptional Children, 2013
A tension exists between educational practitioners and researchers, which is often attributed to their dichotomous and oftentimes polarizing professional ideologies or Discourse communities. When determining what works in education, researchers tend to emphasize evidencebased practices (EBPs) supported by research that is rigorous and internally…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Special Education, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Reflections on a Research Career: Research as Detective Work.
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Zigmond, Naomi – Exceptional Children, 2000
This article by a recipient of the Council for Exceptional Children's Research Award presents the author's perspective of research as detective work, starting from the investigation of dyslexia, and progressing to such topics as the design of secondary education for students with learning disabilities, dropouts, classroom and instructional…
Descriptors: Awards, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Research and Development
These Families, Those Families: The Impact of Researcher Identities on the Research Act.
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Harry, Beth – Exceptional Children, 1996
Effects of qualitative researchers' competing self-identities on decision making in the research process are addressed and illustrated with examples from the author's research with African American/Latino, low- to middle-income families of children with disabilities. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Decision Making
Investigating School-Related Behavior Disorders: Lessons Learned from a Thirty-Year Research Career.
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Walker, Hill M. – Exceptional Children, 2000
A winner of the Council for Exceptional Children Research Award reflects on the enabling effect of a supportive context for research, lessons learned relating to career successes and failures, and the value of applied research. The need develop a program of long-term research is discussed. (Contains references.) (CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Careers, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education