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The Mid-Western Educational Research Association's Annual Meeting, October 11–14, 2006: Teaching And Researching In An Electronic Era, Deborah Bainer Jenkins, Adrian Rodgers

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Annual Meeting Highlights

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Summer Preview Of The 2006 Annual Meeting October 11-14, 2006, Craig A. Mertler

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Summer Preview of Annual Meeting

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A Practical Proposal For Special Education Teacher Induction, Leah Wasburn-Moses

Mid-Western Educational Researcher

Teacher attrition is a serious issue in the field of special education (Boe, Cook, Bobbitt, & Terbanian, 1998). Teachers leave the field in record numbers due to inadequate support in a variety of areas (Shoho, Katims, & Meza, 1998). However, the first few years of a special education teacher’s career have been shown to be crucial for teacher retention (Singer, 1993). The author outlines a three-part plan for induction of special education teachers that directly addresses problems faced by teachers as well as issues in the field of special education. These three components include: IEP Assistance Teams, dual mentoring, and …

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The Structural Validity Of The Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Test, Yonghee Kim, William E. Loadman

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The structural validity of the Ohio Ninth Grade Proficiency Test was investigated with the test scores of 713 eighth graders who had their first opportunity to take the test in March 1999 in a large urban school district in Ohio. The study examined a hypothetical structure of the test to determine its fit to the data. Confirmatory factor analysis was performed, and several fit indices including χ2 statistics and the root- mean-square error of approximation were examined. The theoretical structure of the test was first found to be valid, and then the invariance of the structure was examined across males …

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