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Salmon, Nancy; García Iriarte, Edurne; Burns, Emma Q. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2017
Participation of people with disabilities in producing and using research is critical for monitoring the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The Research Active Programme (RAP) is a module designed to build research capacity of students with intellectual disabilities. RAP was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, Capacity Building, Research Skills
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Fives, Allyn; Russell, Daniel W.; Canavan, John; Lyons, Rena; Eaton, Patricia; Devaney, Carmel; Kearns, Norean; O'Brien, Aoife – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2015
In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), treatments are assigned randomly and treatments are withheld from participants. Is it ethically permissible to conduct an RCT in a social setting? This paper addresses two conditions for justifying RCTs: that there should be a state of equipoise and that the trial should be scientifically promising.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Research Methodology, Control Groups, Experimental Groups