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Collaboration between general and special educators and student outcomes: A need for more research
Author(s) -
van Garderen Delinda,
Stormont Melissa,
Goel Nidhi
Publication year - 2012
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/pits.21610
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , psychology , special education , educational research , best practice , medical education , pedagogy , mathematics education , political science , medicine , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
Abstract Although collaboration between general and special educators is frequently recommended in the literature, how much is known and understood about actual collaboration practices remains unclear. Yet, current reforms and law are calling for increased collaboration. Therefore, the purpose of this review of the literature was to explore the research base on the impact that collaboration has on academic and/or social or behavioral outcomes for students with disabilities. A total of 19 studies were located for review. Although the studies generally support collaboration for improved student outcomes, this finding is tentative at best, given the small number of studies representing a variety of research designs and collaboration models. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.