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Factors Related To Special Educators Concepts Of Exceptional Students, Regular Students, And Themselves, Patricia Hubbell Harris
Factors Related To Special Educators Concepts Of Exceptional Students, Regular Students, And Themselves, Patricia Hubbell Harris
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The affective meanings, defined by a semantic differential, that special educators of the mentally retarded, learning disabled and emotionally disturbed in Virginia public schools assign to their concepts of certain exceptional students, regular students, special educators, and themselves personally were explored. In addition, relationships between these affective meanings and the age, race, sex, endorsements, and experience of teachers were examined.;Mailed survey data were returned by 152 special educators from a 10% stratified random sample of Virginia public school systems. Data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis and a series of multiple regressions, and the following conclusions were drawn: (1) Virginia …
A Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Educational Treatment Programs For Emotionally Disturbed Students, Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum
A Meta-Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of Educational Treatment Programs For Emotionally Disturbed Students, Claire Millhiser Rosenbaum
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to identify and compare the effects of educational treatment programs for emotionally disturbed students. In addition, the study explored whether programmatic or demographic variables interacted with the treatment programs to affect the outcome measures.;Two hundred twenty studies were integrated using the meta-analysis technique. The analysis involved more than 2,300 research subjects and yielded 235 measures of effect size, which were calculated on outcome areas of general achievement, mathematics achievement, reading achievement, and social skills. Variables investigated were age, diagnosis, SES, IQ, length of program, program setting, and program facilitator.;It was hypothesized that (1) there …
The Relationship Between The Commonwealth Of Virginia Graduation Competency Test (Gct) And The Content Of The Individualized Education Programs (Ieps) Of Learning Disabled And Emotionally Disturbed High School Students, Joseph Patrick Nealon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
In response to the decline in student achievement test scores during the past decade and the perceived erosion of confidence in the quality of public education, a number of states have initiated legislative or administrative action to develop and implement a variety of statewide minimum competency testing (MCT) programs. as of January 1, 1980, thirty-six states, including the Commonwealth of Virginia, had mandated some form of MCT programs for elementary and secondary school students.;In Virginia and in at least five other states a major purpose of MCT programs is to ensure, through a uniform statewide test, that students who are …