ERIC Number: EJ813220
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Oct
Pages: 15
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Assessing Social Participation of Pupils with Special Needs in Inclusive Education: The Construction of a Teacher Questionnaire
Koster, Marloes; Nakken, Han; Pijl, Sip Jan; van Houten, Els J.; Lutje Spelberg, Henk C.
Educational Research and Evaluation, v14 n5 p395-409 Oct 2008
This study addresses the development of a teacher questionnaire to assess the social participation of pupils with special needs in regular primary schools and is divided into 2 parts. In the 1st part, the construction of the questionnaire is described. The questionnaire consists of 30 statements related to 4 key themes of social participation: "friendships/relationships", "contacts/interactions", "perception of the pupil", and "acceptance by classmates", yielding 4 subscales. The 2nd part of the study addresses an empirical study in which the questionnaire's quality was examined. The outcomes of a confirmatory factor analysis largely supported the division of social participation into 4 key themes. The analysis revealed that 22 out of 30 statements correlated strongest with the subscale they were assigned to. The questionnaire as a whole turned out to be reliable, whereas the reliability of the subscales varied. The construct validity was found to be mainly acceptable. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Construct Validity, Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Special Needs Students, Elementary School Students, Mainstreaming, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Interaction, Peer Acceptance, Student Attitudes, Test Reliability, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Netherlands
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