Notice on research on children with special educational needs

4 April 2016 

NOTICE ON RESEARCH ON CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

As a top-ranked global university, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) upholds the highest research standards and international best practices in research. NTU has zero tolerance towards any form of research malpractice and will not hesitate to take action against anyone found to be lacking in research integrity.

In accordance with its policy of research integrity, NTU conducted an in-depth investigation following allegations of research malpractice.

This concerned research in the area of children with special educational needs carried out by researchers at the NTU National Institute of Education.

Because of the non-availability of primary data we are unable to authenticate the data. Consequently, the University considers that coupled with doubts about the ethical approvals for the collection of the data, and in order to protect the integrity of its research record, the papers based on those data need to be retracted. Associate Professor Noel Chia and his co-authors have requested for the following papers to be retracted.

The authors and the papers are listed below:

Journal of the American Association of Special Education Professionals (JAASEP)

1. Chia, NKH, & Wong, DLF (2009, Winter). The effectiveness of dimethylglycine (DMG) as a dietary supplement and adjunct treatment to P.E.C.S. approach in treating children with autism spectrum disorders and severe speech delay. JAASEP, 16-42.

2. Chia, NKH, Poh, PTC, & Ng, AGT (2009, Winter). Identifying and differentiating children with hyperlexia and its subtypes: A meta-analysis of results from WISC-III subtests and standardized reading tests. JAASEP, 71-99. 

3. Poh, PTC, & Chia, NKH (2009, Spring). The effectiveness of narrative story-telling as a strategy to improve the narrative speech of children with autism spectrum disorders. JAASEP, 58-101.

4. Chia, NKH, Wong, ME, & Ng, AGT (2009, Fall). The effectiveness of concrete poetry as a strategy to teach reading comprehension to children with Asperger syndrome. JAASEP, 20-37.

5. Chia, NKH, & Ng, AGT (2010, Spring/Summer). An investigation on the error patterns in computation of whole numbers committed by Singaporean children with dyscalculia. JAASEP, 5-37. 

6. Chia, NKH, Yap, E, & Ng, AGT (2010, Spring/Summer). An analysis of verb pattern errors in active-passive sentence transformation made by upper primary Singaporean and Malaysian children with specific language impairment. JAASEP, 96-141. 

7. Chia, NKH, & Kho, CP (2011, Winter). An investigation study on the learning difficulties in mathematics encountered by primary 4 children: In search of a cognitive equation for mathematics learning. JAASEP, 93-119. 

8. Chia, NKH, Ng, AGT, Tan, SSK, & Wee, LH (2011, Fall). A comparative study on the correlation between (i) mathematics quotient and nonverbal intelligence quotient, and (ii) mathematics quotient and draw-a-person intelligence quotient in primary 3 children with selective mutism. JAASEP, 52-79. 

9. Chia, NKH (2013, Fall). The effect of hypnosis on the academic performance of students with learning disabilities in school examinations: A single-group pre-test/post-test experimental study. JAASEP, 33-47. 

10. Chua ACK & Chia (2013). Establishing a psycho-educational profile of a boy with   developmental dyslexia: a single-subject case study. Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2 (4), 157-172. 

11. Chua ACK & Chia NKHNKH (2014). Psycho-educational Diagnostic Evaluation and Profiling of Learning Disabilities.  IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social   Science, Volume 19, Issue 7, Ver. IV (July. 2014), 63-72.​​