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Direct linkEric J. Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this dissertation, I describe patterns of educational placement for students with disabilities, test the degree to which placement is impacted by student and school variables, and offer practical guidance for how schools can promote the principle of least restrictive environment (LRE) to promote access to general education classrooms to the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Disability Identification, Students with Disabilities, Predictor Variables
Elizabeth Hamilton Fox – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The relationships between response to intervention (RTI) data, cognitive ability, academic achievement, identification methods, and specific learning disability (SLD) identification have been studied extensively in recent years; however, an empirically supported method of identifying a learning disability has yet to be agreed upon. Without a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Disability Identification, Educational Diagnosis
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Download full textAnna Shapiro – Exceptional Children, 2023
There is growing evidence that school starting age impacts children's likelihood of receiving special education services, but less is known about variations in this effect. Using a regression discontinuity design, I found that the youngest students in a kindergarten cohort are 40% more likely (p < 0.001) to be placed in special education than…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, School Entrance Age, Special Education, Age Differences
Richard E. Mattison; Adrienne D. Woods; Paul L. Morgan; George Farkas; Marianne M. Hillemeier – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2023
We examined to what extent subgroups of students identified with learning disabilities (LDs; N = 630) in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998 to 1999 (ECLS-K): 1998 national longitudinal study displayed heterogeneity in longitudinal profiles of reading and mathematics achievement from first to eighth grades.…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Kutscher, Elisabeth L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study used a transformative, convergent mixed methods design, with a crossover analysis, to investigate the K-12 and postsecondary experiences young adults with disabilities perceive as influencing their persistence in postsecondary education. Thirteen young adults who were persisting in or had completed postsecondary education programs…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Postsecondary Education, Young Adults, Students with Disabilities
Anna Katherine Shapiro – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Nearly 14% of students in the United States receive special education services in public schools (NCES, 2017). Special education programs serve students with a wide range of developmental differences and vary considerably across schools and districts (National Research Council, 1997). Likelihood of identification for special education services…
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, School Entrance Age, Special Education, Age Differences
Maki, Kathrin E.; Barrett, Courtenay A.; Hajovsky, Daniel B.; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology, 2020
Students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) represent a large proportion of those receiving special education services in U.S. schools, but the relationship between student-level variables and SLD identification is still not well understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which data collected as part of a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, Academic Achievement, Race
