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Kroll, Kathleen – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation focuses on interdisciplinary problem-solving teams used to address the academic needs of elementary students struggling with reading. Use of teams has a strong theoretical base and wide endorsement by educational leaders, but limited empirical base. Three studies explore teams that convene students of differing academic status:…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Interdisciplinary Approach, Teamwork, Elementary School Students
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Knotek, Steve – Journal of Special Education, 2003
A study investigated how the social process and context of multidisciplinary teams in two rural, southern elementary schools inhibited the unbiased discussion of African American students' psychoeducational functioning. Although ethnic bias was not documented, four themes related to the teams social context and bias in the problem-solving process…
Descriptors: Black Students, Conferences, Cultural Influences, Disabilities
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Prater, Greg, Ed.; Minner, Sam, Ed.; Islam, Mohammad, Ed.; Hawthorne, Deborrah, Ed. – 1997
This collection of 64 papers from a 1997 international conference of special educators focuses on the challenges of diversity in education. Topics of the papers include: (1) assessment strategies for individuals with autism; (2) self-determination strategies for at-risk youth with learning, behavior, and emotional disabilities; (3) developing…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism, Career Development, Child Development