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Waldron, Nancy L.; McLeskey, James – Exceptional Children, 1998
An investigation that used a curriculum-based measure to examine the effects of an inclusive school program found 71 elementary students with learning disabilities (LD) in the program made significantly more progress in reading and comparable progress in math when compared to 73 students who were provided services in resource classes. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Based Assessment, Educational Strategies, Elementary Education
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Coutinho, Martha J.; Oswald, Donald – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 1996
This article analyzes national and state placement patterns for students with serious emotional disturbance between 1988 and 1991. Findings indicate that many states report substantial increases or decreases in percentage of children served in regular education classes, resource rooms, separate classes, or separate facilities. State demographic…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Policy, Educational Trends
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Howard-Rose, Dawn; Rose, Christopher – Journal of Special Education, 1994
This qualitative study compared the instructional environments of a resource room and two regular classrooms for four intermediate grade students identified as severely learning disabled. Results suggested that regular classroom teachers need to provide students with LD with more explicit conceptual explanations of cognitive requirements of tasks…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
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Swenson, Nora C. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2000
This article discusses inclusive and collaborative intervention for students with disabilities. A case study of an 8-year-old boy with language impairments contrasts language gains when service delivery was changed from a pull-out model to the Class within a Class (CWC) model when significantly more language gains were obtained. (Contains…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Delivery Systems, Elementary Education, Inclusive Schools
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van Gurp, Susan – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2001
This study compared the self-concepts of secondary students in either a segregated (institutional), congregated, or mainstream resource program setting. Results suggested academic advantages in attending resource programs and social advantages in segregated settings. Integrated deaf students had better self-perceptions of reading ability than…
Descriptors: Deafness, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming, Reading Ability
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Cooper, Paul; Arnold, Ray; Boyd, Eve – British Journal of Special Education, 2001
This article discusses preliminary research results that indicate placement of children (n=216) with emotional/behavioral difficulties into a Nurture Group has a positive effect on a significant proportion of pupils. There is also evidence that the parents of children in Nurture Groups benefit from the positive progress made by their children.…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries
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Krebs, Cathryn S. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2001
A resource vision teacher describes activities to develop skills in solving mathematical word problems by three seventh graders with severe visual impairments. Students kept portfolios of problems they actually experienced in their daily lives. Success was achieved through providing an optimal environment, active involvement, self-assessment, and…
Descriptors: Blindness, Experiential Learning, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Bowles, Steffanie – Online Submission, 2006
This article explores ways computers can be used in special education resource rooms. Discusses management of computer access, integration of computer into curriculum, software selection, and negative computer practices. Models of computer use, including use of computer as individual learning center and use of computer as a cognitive "tool kit" …
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers, Disabilities, Computer Software
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Creel, Chrissy; Fore, Cecil, III; Boon, Richard T.; Bender, William N. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a self-monitoring procedure to increase classroom preparedness skills of four sixth grade students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The study used a multiple-baseline across participants design to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention. The baseline,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Intervention, Maintenance, Hyperactivity
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Donne, Vicki J.; Zigmond, Naomi – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
An observational study of reading instruction, using the MS-CISSAR protocol, was conducted in general education classrooms, resource classrooms, and self-contained special education/deaf education classrooms in Grades 1 through 4 in public schools within the tri-state area of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Participants were 24 students who…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Partial Hearing, Deafness, Grade 1
Davis, Sharon – 1994
This report updates an earlier study on educational placements of children with mental retardation, comparing data from the 1989-90 school year with the 1990-91 school year. The data indicate that regular class placements increased from 6.7 percent to 7.4 percent from 1989-90 to 1990-91. Resource room placements increased from 20.1 to 23 percent,…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming
Coladarci, Theodore; Breton, William A. – 1991
The primary purposes of this study were to establish the validity of the Gibson and Dembo (1984) teacher efficacy scale (modified for use by resource-room teachers) and to examine the association between resource-room teacher efficacy and the reported frequency and utility of the instructional supervision these teachers received. The 580 Maine…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Questionnaires, Resource Room Programs
Brown, Ruth Wharton – 1982
A third volume of materials for special education resource specialists is presented concerning the resource specialist room, scheduling and grading, diagnosis and assessment, individualized education program (IEP) development, material selection, and screening. The first section includes diagrams of room arrangements, while the second section…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Grading
Tori, Christopher D. – 1989
The study sought to determine if significant predictive relationships could be found between diagnostic psychological test data and the changes in academic achievement of learning handicapped children participating in a resource specialist program for one period per day. The 102 students, with a mean age of 9 years, were administered the Wide…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Education
Marks, Mary C.; Hersh, Susan B. – 1990
Two studies investigated the modification of tasks by students in different public school settings. The first study examined task modification in physical education settings and the second study considered task modification by learning disabled students in a resource room and in two mainstream settings. In study 1 a systematic observation system…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Compliance (Psychology), Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
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