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Michelle R. Murphy; Christine A. Christle – Preventing School Failure, 2024
Co-teaching is a popular service delivery option for students with learning disabilities (LD), yet its overall efficacy is questionable. Variance in teachers, students, quality of instruction, and types of co-teaching make it challenging to meet criteria for quality group experimental study. Schools must determine the effectiveness of their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
Joy Christine Aldrich – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The problem addressed in this study was that traditional assessments used for middle school math, regardless of any needs-based accommodation provisions, inhibit equitable representation of the academic abilities of students with individualized education programs (IEPs) for specific learning disabilities (SLD) because of the absence of the…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities
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Doronkin, Jamie L.; Martin, James E.; Greene, Barbara A.; Choiseul-Praslin, Belkis; Autry-Schreffler, Faye – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2020
We conducted a qualitative analysis of written transcripts from nine teacher-led middle and high school IEP meetings for students with learning disabilities to determine common themes regarding student roles during these meetings and the meeting process itself. We found two overall meta-themes (e.g., instant vision and out of focus), seven themes…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Transitional Programs, Meetings, Secondary School Teachers
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Toppo, Greg – Education Next, 2020
Accommodations, deserved or undeserved, have been under the microscope in 2019. They played a prominent role in this year's Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, with prosecutors alleging that wealthy parents persuaded willing psychologists to say their child needed extra time in special testing centers--in a few cases, ringers proctored the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Individualized Education Programs, Thinking Skills, Timed Tests
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Hott, Brittany L.; Morano, Stephanie; Peltier, Corey; Pulos, Joshua; Peltier, Tiffany – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2020
Students with mathematics learning disability (MLD) are entitled to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) as outlined by their Individualized Education Program (IEP). The IEP is a roadmap to enhance in-school and postschool outcomes for students with a disability. We reviewed IEPs (n = 89) for secondary students with MLD enrolled in 15 rural…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Learning Disabilities, Access to Education
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Jiwon Hwang; Sam Choo; Stephanie Morano; Mengyuan Liang; Matthew Kabel – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2024
Recent studies have posited that K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education should go beyond traditional subject silos and take an interdisciplinary approach that integrates these core subjects into a cohesive curriculum to foster authentic problem-solving skills. The purpose of this study was to field test one of five…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
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Janzen, Michelle – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2019
Through a Disney perspective, this author discusses how students can use creative strategies to cope with learning disabilities in secondary, post-secondary and even graduate levels of academic achievement. In particular, the paper will be presenting how the author, who has an infinity for "everything Disney", chose to use both Disney…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Learning Disabilities, Secondary School Students, College Students
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Gottfried, Michael A.; Plasman, Jay; Freeman, Jennifer A.; Dougherty, Shaun – AERA Open, 2021
Increasing and improving the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational pipeline has been a point of emphasis for decades, and federal policy in the United States has urged high schools to embed new types of STEM courses into the curriculum. As one example, applied STEM courses--one growing branch within career and…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), STEM Education, Vocational Education, Enrollment
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Nolan-Spohn, Hannah – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2016
In this article, the author proposes that students who led their Individual Education Program (IEP) meetings were better informed about their own disabilities, rights, and accommodations, and that the act of leading the meeting resulted in improved self-advocacy and self-confidence. Also, in understanding their list of accommodations and…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Individualized Education Programs, Disabilities, Student Rights
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Southward, Julie D.; Davis, Mariya T. – Preventing School Failure, 2020
Transition for students with disabilities has been the focus of educational policies for several decades. Still, students with disabilities, including those with a specific learning disability (SLD), continue to experience difficulties transitioning to post-school environments, particularly post-secondary education (PSE). The Individuals with…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Postsecondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Students with Disabilities
Joyal, Suzanne – Online Submission, 2020
This study explored ways in which the arts could be infused into the day-to-day practices of special education teachers and paraeducators to support them in addressing Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals. This study further explored the impact of positive or negative help from teachers, nurses and paraeducators on student engagement. Due to…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Art Education, Access to Education, Paraprofessional School Personnel
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Bray, Laura E.; Russell, Jennifer Lin – American Journal of Education, 2016
In this comparative case study, we draw from neoinstitutional and structuration theory to examine the individualized education program (IEP) meetings for five high school students identified with specific learning disabilities. Specifically, we examine how participants interacted during the IEP meetings and how learning, instruction, and…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Meetings, Case Studies, High School Students
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King-Sears, Margaret E.; Stefanidis, Abraham; Brawand, Anne – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2019
This exploratory research underscores Bandura's social learning theory on collective agency to investigate co-teaching partners' collaboration regarding reading instruction for students with disabilities. Students whose Individualized Education Programs stipulate reading are dependent on special educators to deliver such instruction. In the…
Descriptors: Barriers, Program Implementation, Special Education, Reading Instruction
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Locquiao, Jed; Abernathy, Tammy V.; Mesina, Olga L.; Liu, Leping – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
Abundant empirical research points to a significant number of students not going to school across the United States. Further yet, there exists strong research consensus that absenteeism predicts negative and persistent academic outcomes for students. LEAs and related stakeholders have rightly adopted measurement and intervention on student…
Descriptors: Attendance, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Grade 3
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Cavendish, Wendy; Connor, David J.; Olander, Louis; Hallaran, Armineh – Exceptionality, 2020
High school students perspectives related to school facilitation of involvement of students in the transition process were examined. Qualitative interviews with 40 high school students with Learning Disabilities (LD) were conducted using a semi-structured interview protocol and a constant comparative approach was used in data coding. Qualitative…
Descriptors: High School Students, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Student Attitudes
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