The What Works Clearinghouse Single-Case Design Pilot Standards: Who Will Guard the Guards?

Remedial and Special Education

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 145-152

  Hitchcock, John H ^a   Horner, Robert H ^b   Kratochwill, Thomas R ^c   Levin, Joel R ^d   Odom, Samuel L ^e   Rindskopf, David M ^f   Shadish, William R ^g  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^f CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

critique of WWC single case design standards; design standards; evidence criteria; single case research design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897599389     PISSN: 07419325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741932513518979     Document Type: Article

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