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The Prevalence-Based Need For Adapted Physical Education Teachers In The United States, Jiabei Zhang
The Prevalence-Based Need For Adapted Physical Education Teachers In The United States, Jiabei Zhang
Human Performance and Health Education Faculty Research
The purpose was to develop a method for projecting the need for adapted physical education (APE) teachers in the public schools in the United States. This method was derived from a prevalence-based model---dividing the nurn- ber of APE students enrolled by the APE student-teacher ratio and then sub- tracting the number of APE teachers hired. This model used the findings of Kelly and Gansneder (1998) that (a) 4% of the school population required APE services and (b) the overall national APE student-teacher ratio was 104: 1. The results revealed a need for 22,116 additional APE teachers nationwide as well as …