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Educational personnel's perceptions of mainstreaming and resource room effectiveness
Author(s) -
Graham Steve,
Burdg Nancy B.,
Hudson Floyd,
Carpenter Dale
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(198001)17:1<128::aid-pits2310170124>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - mainstreaming , psychology , resource (disambiguation) , perception , school teachers , special education , medical education , mathematics education , pedagogy , medicine , computer network , neuroscience , computer science
Equivalent forms of a questionnaire were administered to elementary classroom and resource room teachers. The questionnaires were designed to elicit teachers' attitudes and perceptions as to the effectiveness and appropriateness of mainstreaming, regular classroom teachers' level of skill competency, assistance from the resource room, and communication between the resource room and regular classroom teachers. Results indicated that resource and regular teachers evidenced differential perceptions as to all factors investigated. Educational implications of the findings were discussed and specific recommendations were proposed.