Placing Children in Special Education : a Strategy for Equity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Staff, National Research Council
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington : National Academies Press, 1982.
Temas:
Children with mental disabilities > Education > Congresses.
Students > Rating of > Congresses.
Educational tests and measurements > Congresses.
Enfants ayant une déficience intellectuelle > Éducation > Congrès.
Tests et mesures en éducation > Congrès.
Children with mental disabilities > Education
Educational tests and measurements
Students > Rating of
Conference papers and proceedings
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  • Placing Children in Special Education: A Strategy for Equity
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • REPORT OF THE PANEL
  • 1 Introduction: Disproportion in Special Education
  • THE EXTENT OF EMR DISPROPORTION IN AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  • POTENTIAL CAUSES OF DISPROPORTION IN EMR PROGRAMS
  • Legal and Administrative Requirements
  • Characteristics of Students
  • Quality of the Instruction Received
  • Possible Biases in the Assessment Process
  • Characteristics of the Home and Family Environment
  • Broader Historical and Cultural Contexts
  • DISPROPORTION: PROBLEMATIC OR SYMPTOMATIC?A LOOK AHEAD
  • 2 Placement in Special Education: Historical Developments and Current Procedures
  • WHO ARE THE CHILDREN CLASSIFIED AS EMR?
  • Some Descriptive Information About the EMR Population
  • Age
  • Sex
  • Socioeconomic Status, Ethnicity, and Sociocultural Factors
  • Biosocial Characteristics
  • HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
  • Origins of Special Education
  • Intelligence Testing for Placement of Mentally Retarded Students
  • Developments in the Special Education System
  • Disproportionate Placement of Minorities and Court DecisionsMainstreaming in Regular Classes
  • Federal Legislation and the Rights of the Handicapped
  • CURRENT PROCEDURES IN EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT
  • A Description of the Placement Process
  • Factors Influencing the Placement Process
  • The Effects of the Placement Process on Minority Students
  • 3 Assessment: Issues and Methods
  • COMPREHENSIVE INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
  • IQ Testing: Controversies, Implications, and Alternatives
  • The Nature-Nurture Issue
  • The Issue of Test Validity
  • The Issue of Racial and Cultural BiasBias in the Test Situation
  • Item Bias
  • Differential Prediction
  • Conclusion
  • Alternative Measures of Intellectual Functioning
  • Conclusions
  • Individual Measures Outside the Intellectual Domain
  • Biomedical Measures
  • Adaptive Behavior Scales
  • COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT IN CONTEXT: A TWO-PHASE PROCESS
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • 4 Effective Instruction for Mildly Mentally Retarded Children
  • EVIDENCE ON EFFECTIVE INSTRUCTION FOR MILDLY MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN
  • The Question of Setting
  • Features of Effective InstructionAcademic Outcomes
  • Social Outcomes
  • Cognitive Process Skills
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • Instructional Setting
  • Categorical Labeling
  • SUMMARY AND SOME CAUTIONS
  • Masking Individual Differences
  • Unknown Effects on Other Children
  • Behavioral Bias in Research
  • Evaluation Criteria
  • Conclusion
  • 5 New Approaches to Assessment and Instruction
  • MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS: PRINCIPLES OF RESPONSIBILITY
  • Alternative Strategies Within the Regular Classroom
  • Implications for Implementation
  • Suggested Research

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