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Welcome to Volume 37.2 of Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals. We hope your summer was peaceful and that you are refreshed and ready for another school year. We also hope you will find the following articles useful as you get started.
The first article by Martin, Martin, and Osmani provides findings of a study to determine the effects of the curriculum “Take Action” on goal attainment with high school students with mild to moderate disabilities. While results indicated initial success, further research is needed. In the second article, Schmalzried and Harvey provide findings from a study on transition practices used by secondary educators and stand-alone career and technical education centers. Readers interested in increasing communication between these two important sets of personnel will be interested in the recommendations provided by the authors. In the third article, Dong and Lucas report findings from a study on academic performance and use of disability support services. The results of this study have major implications for high school personnel who are preparing students with disabilities to successfully transition to colleges or universities.
The final two articles describe analyses from two major databases. First, Rojewski, Lee, and Gregg examined a longitudinal sample from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 to determine differences in work outcomes between individuals with learning disabilities or emotional-behavior disorders and individuals with and without disabilities. Readers should find the cross-disability and non-disability comparisons interesting. Finally, Karpur, Brewer, and Golden introduce to the readers the use of propensity score analysis as a new technique for analyzing and comparing large data sets; in this case, New York State transition program data and National Longitudinal Transition Study–2 (NLTS2) data. Readers interested in analyzing large data sets should be interested in the technique, while other readers will be interested in their findings.
As always, we want to thank our Consulting Editors for their time and effort (the number of new submissions has doubled in the past 2 years!), as well as our ever-increasing list of Guest Reviewers. We could not do this without you. Keep up the great work and happy reading!