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ERIC Number: ED482811
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 8
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
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Academic Performance in Math and English and Award Rates of Disabled Students.
Gavilan Coll., Gilroy, CA.
This document addresses characteristics students with a disability at Gavilan College (California). Over the past several years, a shift has occurred in the types of disability represented at Gavilan College. Learning disabled is the largest group, but has been proportionally declining as has mobility impaired students while developmentally delayed learners have been proportionally increasing over time. The study finds that leaning disabled students are three times more likely as other students to retain an award or certificate, which includes AA, AS, and Vocational Certificates. The study uses a classification and regression tree that attempts to profile students by using demographic and academic factors as predictors of disability status including age, ethnicity, gender, GPA, etc. The study concludes that only age was able to classify disability status where those over the age of 62 were more likely to have a non-learning disability. Thus, disabled students are very similar to other students based on these major variables. Overall, it appears that disabled students are performing at a level equal or above non-disabled students and that disabled students are not labeled disproportionately by age, ethnicity, or gender. (MZ)
For full text: http://www.gavilan.edu/research/reports/dsps023.pdf.
Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: Gavilan Coll., Gilroy, CA.
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