The purpose of this special issue is to explain the advantages of using administrative data generated by states and school districts for research in special education, illustrate their use in special education policy studies, and encourage more such analyses. In this introduction to the special issue, we define and distinguish large administrative data sets, discuss types of special education policy questions that are appropriate for addressing with administrative data, provide a high-level overview of methods that are commonly used with such data, discuss examples of published analyses that use each method, note some of the limitations to using administrative data, and briefly introduce articles in the special issue.

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利用大型行政数据进行特殊教育政策分析：近期贡献和未来方向


本期特刊的目的是解释使用州和学区生成的行政数据进行特殊教育研究的优势，说明其在特殊教育政策研究中的用途，并鼓励更多此类分析。在本特刊的介绍中，我们定义和区分大型行政数据集，讨论适合使用行政数据解决的特殊教育政策问题的类型，提供此类数据常用方法的高级概述，讨论使用每种方法的已发表分析示例，注意使用行政数据的一些限制，并简要介绍特刊中的文章。