An investigation of effects of information processing models on instruction showed that strategy and metacognitive instruction is infrequent in teacher-child interactions; a behavioral paradigm captures most teacher-child interactions; what teachers say and do is discrepant; and content of teacher-child verbal behavior varies minimally between…

This article presents guidelines for "beginning" career researchers on developing a research program, focusing on topic choice, research methodology quality, coauthoring, funding, and selection of journal for publication. Career models in special education research are described, the importance of careful interpretation of research data is…

The study evaluated research quality and journal outlets in special education. Both data-based research and reviews of the literature from special education and non-special education journals were compared on such criteria as research sophistication and citations of articles of review board members. A general lack of research sophistication was…

The article found that of 36 frequently cited articles in special education, most were non-data-based, published in area-specific journals, and single authored by males. Such articles were likely to make recommendations for policy or practice, present a hypothesis, or state the findings of previous research. (Author/DB)