The Attitude of Primary School Staff toward the Integration of Mildly Handicapped Children [electronic resource] / Clare Roberts and Chris Pratt.
Investigated were: (1) attitudes of school staff in Western Australia toward the integration of children with intellectual handicaps into regular classrooms; and (2) relationships between staff attitudes and institutional variables. School staff included regular classroom teachers, special education...
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| Summary: | Investigated were: (1) attitudes of school staff in Western Australia toward the integration of children with intellectual handicaps into regular classrooms; and (2) relationships between staff attitudes and institutional variables. School staff included regular classroom teachers, special education teachers, teachers' assistants, and principals. Institutional variables included grade level, class size, years of teaching experience, years of experience teaching special needs children, perceived level of success in teaching special needs children, and type of school. A three-part questionnaire was completed by 317 staff members from 18 regular state primary schools and attached educational support centers. The questionnaire consisted of a 30-item attitude scale, a question assessing agreement or disagreement with the concept of integrating special needs children into regular classrooms, and six questions concerning respondents' school role and institutional variables. Results of the attitude scale indicated that the attitudes of school staff toward integration in Western Australian primary schools were, in general, not positive. Class size and perception of success were found to have implications for the implementation of integration programs and attitude change. (RH) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED303240. ERIC Note: In Bartnik, E. A., Lewis, G. M., and O'Connor, P. A. Technology, Resources and Consumer Outcomes: Proceedings of the Twenty-Third National Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability. Perth, Western Australia, P. E. Publications, 1987. |
| Physical Description: | 23 p. |