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Response to Salzberg, Strain, and Baer

Thomas E. Scruggs, PhD, is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Education, Special Education Section, and Director of the Purdue Achievement Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. He received a PhD from Arizona State University in 1982. His research interests include assessment, learning and memory, and research synthesis.

Margo A. Mastropieri, PhD

Margo A. Mastropieri, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Education, Special Education Section, Purdue University. She received a PhD from Arizona State University in 1983. Her research interests include teacher effectiveness, mnemonic strategies, prose comprehension, and research synthesis.

Glendon Casto, PhD

Glendon Casto, PhD, is the Director of the Early Intervention Research Institute; acting director of the Developmental Center for Handicapped Persons; and professor of psychology, Utah State University, Logan. He received his PhD from the University of Utah. His research interests include cognitive development, assessment in early intervention, early intervention programmatic and efficacy research, and research synthesis.

The response of Salzberg, Strain, and Baer criticizes our method for being insensitive to the complexities of single-subject data, and provides an example of a more traditional, narrative review as a positive alternative. We restate our original position that such narrative review procedures are of limited utility unless objective standards for evaluating study outcomes have been explicitly stated, and that without such standards, evaluation of the objectivity and replicability of the review cannot be made. We also take exception to their characterization that our method is "time-efficient" and constitutes a "one-number summary" of research literature. We conclude with the hope that debate continue regarding objective, systematic procedures for reviewing single-subject literature.

Remedial and Special Education, Vol. 8, No. 2, 49-52 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/074193258700800210


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