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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Special education evaluation"”.
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The Relationship Among Teacher and Student Gender and the Referral of Students to Intervention Processes that could Potentially Lead to Special Education Evaluation for Behavioral Characteristics of Emotional Disability and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
… processes that could potentially lead to special education evaluation for behavioral characteristics of emotional disability (ED) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Male students are disproportionally represented in special education (Bal et al., 2014). Disproportionality …
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Perceptions of importance of diagnostic competencies among educational diagnosticians.
… (SBEC) as they apply to the work of the educational diagnostician and the second being to examine the diagnostician's perceived ability of training institutions to prepare professionals for the field of special education evaluation. This study examined the perceptions of educational …
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Black, Male, and Poor: The Intersection of Social Identities Effects on Special Education Referrals for Emotional Disturbance
… male students, when compared to the total Special Education population, are disproportionately placed under the Emotional Disturbance category. Special Education evaluations, referred by general education teachers, lead to most Special Education placement (UFT, n.d.; Smeets & Roeleveld, …
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Enhancing consistency in dyslexia identification : fostering collaboration to reduce noise in multidisciplinary evaluation teams.
Special education evaluation teams interpret student data sets from different points of view based on their areas of expertise. Individual team members' professional judgment is influenced by individual training, skills, experience, and recent changes in Texas policy, leading to variability and …
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Special education eligibility following the COVID-19 pandemic
… 2022a), immediately changing the structure of education across the country as many schools closed to in-person learning, transitioning to virtual platforms or shifting between in-person and virtual learning (Newsweek, 2020; UNICEF, 2021; Wyse et al., 2020). Understanding how students were …
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Examination of two early intervention screeners to predict identified disability by third grade
Special education evaluation is a critical access point for the identification of students with a disability. However, it remains unclear which children will qualify for services in the educational setting under the requirements set forth in the Individuals with Disability Education Act (IDEA, …
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Parents' Views of and Participation in the Special Education Process
Parents’ views of and participation in the special education process are important in light of parents’ expanded membership in all decision making groups, specifically those that make eligibility and placement decisions guaranteed by The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of …
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Unseen Journeying: Latinx Mothers’ Experiences and Navigation of Pre-Referral Home-School Collaboration
… faced by Latinx mothers whose children receive special education services. However, minimal attention has focused on Latinx mothers of students in the pre-referral stage—the time when students facing significant academic difficulties may be struggling in the classroom but have not yet been …
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Assisting School Level Teams to Identify and Address the Needs of Struggling Learners through a Tiered Intervention and Aligned Professional Development Model
… identifying students who have disabilities and special needs and then providing them with appropriate educational services so that they progress academically. Schools have adopted, implemented, and revised a variety of screening processes to identify these students. The process of trying to help …
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An Analysis of the Effects of Prereferral Interventions on the Reduction of Inappropriate Classroom Behaviors
… identified a number of concerns with traditional special education services which suggest the need to investigate different methods of remediating student problems within the mainstream classroom environment. These included: (a) the educational community's failure to meet the intent of P.L. …
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Contextualizing assessment of literate-learning: Can Tony read and write?
… produced in his fourth grade class; 2) the special education evaluation process in which Tony’s abilities were assessed as borderline; 3) the profile of Tony as an able, literate learner I constructed as I worked with him in and out of school between December 1992 and December 1993; and, 4) …
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A CASE STUDY OF THE ATTEMPTS TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE PROGRAM OBJECTIVES IN AN IOWA AREA EDUCATION AGENCY DIVISION OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
… examined by the study was the development and evaluation of the program objectives of an approved annual plan to provide special education services in Area Education Agency 6. Current federal and state audits of AEA special education programs focused on compliance procedures, not on program …
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Perceptions of Problem Solving: Where's Waldo?
1 PDF file (74 pages)
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Special education evaluations: appropriate methods and measures for use with English language learners
1 PDF file (iii, 50 pages)
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Whiteness: influence, decision-making, and cultural-linguistic disproportionality in special education placements
… diverse (CLD) students in special education has been well documented. Existing research has largely focused on the attitudes and beliefs of classroom teachers and the processes that lead to these placements. Few studies have examined how the perspectives of child study team …
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A case study of a child presenting academic and on task difficulties
1 PDF file (129 leaves)
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Twice-exceptionality in African American and Latinx students: how understandings of twice-exceptionality during the assessment process contributes to racial disparities in special education
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01