Exceptional Children articles from December 1999

Exceptional Children archives from December 1999

Discovering Multiple Intelligences Through a Performance-Based Assessment: Consistency with Independent Ratings.
December 22, 1999... The use of standardized tests to assess the intelligence of culturally diverse groups has been much criticized in literature on this topic (Clasen, Middleton, & Connell; 1994; Cummins; 1991; Maker, 1996; Samuda, 1991). Many researchers have...

The IDEA Amendments: A Four-Step Approach for Determining Supplementary Aids and Services.
December 22, 1999... School districts have a duty to make good faith efforts to include students with disabilities in regular classroom settings and to provide necessary supplementary aids and services to make these settings effective. Legislation and litigation...

Putting Alternate Assessments Into Practice: What to Measure and Possible Sources of Data.
December 22, 1999... Personnel in most state departments of education are busy developing frameworks of educational standards, state assessments, and accountability systems (Roeber, Bond, & Braskamp, 1997). They are specifying the knowledge and skills that students...

Managing Limited Resources: Do Children with Learning Problems Share?
December 22, 1999... One of most important social skills that children need to learn, beginning at an early age, is sharing with their peers. Yet some children are especially reluctant to share, particularly in limited resource situations (Putallaz & Sheppard,...

Factors That Predict Teachers Staying in, Leaving, or Transferring from the Special Education Classroom.
December 22, 1999... The provision of a free and appropriate public education (FAPE) to students with disabilities is dependent upon the retention of qualified special education teachers in the classroom. The ability of public schools, however, to retain qualified...

A National Perspective of Competencies for Teachers of Individuals with Physical and Health Disabilities.
December 22, 1999... Teachers instructing students with physical and health disabilities need specialized knowledge and skills to provide these students an appropriate education and a safe educational environment (The Council for Exceptional Children [CEC], 1996)....

Teaching Students with Learning Disabilities to Mindfully Plan When Writing.
December 22, 1999... Planning is an important part of good writing. Flower and Hayes (1980) found that skilled writers typically develop an initial set of goals to guide the writing process, generating and organizing writing content to meet these goals. The...

Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities to Recruit Positive Teacher Attention.
December 22, 1999... Promoting the academic and social success of students with disabilities in inclusive classrooms is one of the primary responsibilities of both special and general education teachers. A growing number of schools are striving to educate nearly...

Exploring the Technical Adequacy of Curriculum-Based Measurement in Reading for Children Who Use Manually Coded English.
December 22, 1999... Concern over the reading ability of students in public schools today continues to garner interest, research focus, and debate. For students who are deaf or hard of hearing, concern about reading problems is even more serious. Depressed reading...