01.505 Children with Disabilities in the Classroom
Summer 2008
Instructions for Research Review Proposals
Your proposal for the research review will consist of at least one paragraph stating specifically what question you will be answering in your research review. Identify at least one empirical journal article relevant to this topic, using APA citation style to list the reference.
The question needs to have disorder of childhood or adolescence as its focus with specific relevance to something that will be useful to know or understand in dealing with individuals who have this disorder in a school setting.
Do not focus on physical or medical issues (e.g., physical effects of bulimia)
Focus on psychological or psychosocial aspects of the disorder with clear relevance to the classroom
This paper must go beyond simple description of symptoms
You may focus, for example, on causes, effects on social contexts such as family or school, or treatments.
Your question should have a single focus so that you can integrate the findings of three articles around a single question, and not have one article addressing, for example, causes, one addressing symptoms, and one addressing treatment. Pick one.
If you are able to provide any additional information about your plans, it would be helpful to do so. If you have any resources, please list them. Remember that you need three empirical journal articles from peer-reviewed journals; note the emphasis on empirical. You are writing a review so you don't want to use review articles. It is a review of research, so you do not want to use an article that is already a review.
Make sure you use your own work and provide credit for any ideas or direct quotes you have taken from others. Use APA citation style. Whatever you do, DO NOT plagiarize.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a peer reviewed journal?
What is an empirical (vs. review or theoretical) article?