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Behind the Scenes of an Intervention Research Study
Author(s) -
Gersten Russell
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
learning disabilities research and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.018
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1540-5826
pISSN - 0938-8982
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5826.2005.00134.x
Subject(s) - intuition , intervention (counseling) , psychology , mathematics education , learning disability , research design , pedagogy , cognitive science , sociology , developmental psychology , social science , psychiatry
This article is intended to supplement a published research report (Gersten, Baker, Smith‐Johnson, Dimino, & Peterson, in press) on an instructional intervention study by discussing some of the behind‐the‐scenes issues that typically do not appear in a published research report. In particular, I discuss how use of design experiments helped shape the intervention, the interaction between research questions and research design, and the role of intuition in designing and refining experimental studies of instruction.