Criterion scale for the evaluation of individual educational programs (IEPS) of mildly handicapped children in grades one through six
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description: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) was enacted in November, 1975. It requires that an Individual Educational Program (IEP) be developed and written for every student who is handicapped. Public Law 94-142 guarantees a free appropriate public education to all handicapped children as of September 1, 1978. The term "appropriate" is not defined as such, but rather receives its definition through the mechanism of the IEP. The IEP should reflect the total programming required to meet the child's unique needs. The degree to which the written plan will meet the unique educational needs of a handicapped student is the quality of the plan. It is assumed that with careful planning a program can be developed which will insure a handicapped student equal opportunity with a non-handicapped student to fulfill their potential of becoming educated citizens. The two purposes of this study were to determine whether there were significant criteria which insure quality programming for Individual Education Programs (IEPs) to mildly handicapped children in grades one through six and to develop a scale for evaluating the quality of their IEPs. A questionnaire presenting forty-eight criteria was used to poll the opinions of experts with regard to quality standards for writing IEPs. Public Law 94-142 Education For All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 Section 602 of the Act and Federal Regulations 121 Revised as of October 1, 1978 provided the primary source of the criteria. The expert population of respondents to the questionnaire included 105 Educational Diagnosticians employed in Texas public schools. At the conclusion of the collection of the data from the questionnaires the responses were analyzed by computer programs. Frequency distribution tables containing absolute frequencies of the responses for each criterion were compiled. Nonparametric correlations and a Chi-square Test was computed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Nonpar. C…
abstract: The Education for All Handicapped Children Act (Public Law 94-142) was enacted in November, 1975. It requires that an Individual Educational Program (IEP) be developed and written for every student who is handicapped. Public Law 94-142 guarantees a free appropriate public education to all handicapped children as of September 1, 1978. The term "appropriate" is not defined as such, but rather receives its definition through the mechanism of the IEP. The IEP should reflect the total programming required to meet the child's unique needs. The degree to which the written plan will meet the unique educational needs of a handicapped student is the quality of the plan. It is assumed that with careful planning a program can be developed which will insure a handicapped student equal opportunity with a non-handicapped student to fulfill their potential of becoming educated citizens. The two purposes of this study were to determine whether there were significant criteria which insure quality programming for Individual Education Programs (IEPs) to mildly handicapped children in grades one through six and to develop a scale for evaluating the quality of their IEPs. A questionnaire presenting forty-eight criteria was used to poll the opinions of experts with regard to quality standards for writing IEPs. Public Law 94-142 Education For All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 Section 602 of the Act and Federal Regulations 121 Revised as of October 1, 1978 provided the primary source of the criteria. The expert population of respondents to the questionnaire included 105 Educational Diagnosticians employed in Texas public schools. At the conclusion of the collection of the data from the questionnaires the responses were analyzed by computer programs. Frequency distribution tables containing absolute frequencies of the responses for each criterion were compiled. Nonparametric correlations and a Chi-square Test was computed by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) Nonpar. C…
author: Hoffman, Jane Ann
language: en_US
keywords: Special Education, Education, Handicapped Children, Individual Educational Program, Criterion Scale
date published: 1980-07-30
date modified: 2026-07-24T05:05:07Z
provider: Texas Woman's University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Texas Woman's University

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