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Peer reviewedPereira-Laird, Joyce; Deane, Frank P.; Bunnell, Julie – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
This study addressed the validity of using a five-state multifaceted approach to defining reading disabilities. Comparison of 204 reading-disabled (selected by criteria such as intraindividual differences and low achievement) and normally achieving junior high students on motivational, cognitive, and metacognitive variables (usually associated…
Descriptors: Definitions, Disability Identification, High School Students, Junior High Schools
Download full textChambers, Jay G.; Kidron, Yael; Spain, Angeline K. – American Institutes for Research, 2004
Under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), school districts are required to meet the educational needs of all students with disabilities. However, school districts struggle to provide adequate services to students with disabilities who have extraordinary needs and require unusually high expenditures to meet those…
Descriptors: Expenditure per Student, Ethnicity, Educational Needs, Construct Validity
