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Understanding Research Related to Children with Disabilities

By Dr. Barbara Smith, Research Analyst
National Dissemination Center for Children With Disabilities
Updated on Feb 18, 2011

So you want to use research findings when you make decisions affecting children with disabilities---what's the best practice for educating them, for determining their placement, for training their teachers, for designing the systems that will help them flourish and succeed. So you start searching for research that's relevant to the decisions you have to make. You run across terms like single study, group design, experimental design, literature review, synthesis, and---ahhh! here's a high-falutin' one---meta-analysis. What's the difference between these terms, and how much weight can you put on the conclusions the research authors draw?

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