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Schalock, Robert L.; Gomez, Laura E.; Verdugo, Miguel A.; Claes, Claudia – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
The purpose of this article is to move the field of intellectual and closely related developmental disabilities (IDD) towards a better understanding of evidence and evidence-based practices. To that end, we discuss (a) different perspectives on and levels of evidence, (b) commonly used evidence-gathering strategies, (c) standards to evaluate…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Data Collection
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Sailor, Wayne; Paul, James L. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2004
In this article, the authors examine the contributions of a progressive form of postmodern social theory to raising substantive issues about the politics of knowledge or the factors that govern decision processes regarding the nature of evidence from research. They examine the basis for the reaction against postmodernism that has appeared in the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Disabilities, Postmodernism