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50 Years of ERIC
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Patterns in General Education Teachers' Integration Practices.
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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; Meyers, Joel; Slesinski, Christine; Douglas, Christopher; Lewis, Linda – Exceptionality, 1997
This study investigated patterns among three practices used by 52 general education teachers for inclusion of students with disabilities: grouping strategies, teacher expectations, and modifications. Results found a pattern of differences between content and special area teachers in use of large-group instruction and reliance on special education…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Art Teachers, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Techniques
A Novel Methodology for Describing Integration Practices.
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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; Meyers, Joel; Pruzek, Robert M. – Exceptionality, 1997
Comments on researchers' efforts to develop and refine a methodology to use in a study that investigated patterns in general education teachers' integration practices (EC 618 917). The need to combine qualitative and quantitative methods in more creative ways to investigate actual practice in special education is discussed. (CR)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Educational Practices, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Classroom Teachers' Views of Pull-in Programs.
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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; Meyers, Joel – Exceptionality, 1996
This study compared the views of 11 general education elementary teachers whose remedial reading students participated in integrated pull-in programs with views of 11 colleagues with similar students served by pull-out programs. Intergroup differences included more positive attitudes toward pull-in programs by teachers experienced with them than…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Inclusive Schools
The Role of the Researcher as Change Agent.
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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; Meyers, Joel – Exceptionality, 1996
The researchers who conducted a study of the views of regular elementary teachers toward provision of special services through either "pull-in" or "pull-out" programs consider the researcher's role as change agent. The authors stress the timing of their research (with new legislation mandating consultant teacher services) and the importance of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Delivery Systems, Educational Change, Educational Researchers