The chatter on AERNET about “Best Practices” has slowed to a crawl. This is a reprint of the last comment before those folks/our BVI colleagues moved on…
(In reference to NCLB frowning on action research…)
I don’t know if they do or not. If they do frown on it, they are wrong. Experiential evidence is what generates the questions that later may be framed into
empirical investigation questions. When you have a problem, try a solution, and find out whether or not it helps, you have conducted single subject research. That doesn’t guarantee that it will or won’t work the next time, or with a different kind of student, but you know it worked for that student.
NCLB has a nickname: NCLTFBUTCKU (No child left too far behind unless they can’t keep up.) That’s not original. I got it from a good friend on a school psych listserv.
Time for this issue to go to bed for the night.
