Recent innovations in small-N designs for rehabilitation research: An extension of Cowan, Hennessey, Vierstra, and Rumrill

Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 197-205

  McDougall, Dennis ^a   Smith, Garnett ^a   Black, Rhonda ^a   Rumrill, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied behavior analysis; Changing criterion; Distributed; Innovations; Range bound; Research designs; Single subject; Small N; Vocational rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL ASPECT; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION;

EID: 30844434789     PISSN: 10522263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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