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Bulgren, Janis A.; Marquis, Janet G.; Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lenz, B. Keith; Davis, Betsy; Grossen, Bonnie – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2006
The purpose of this study was to gain information about the high school general educational context for students with and without disabilities. A questionnaire was administered to general education teachers who taught required high school courses in which students with disabilities and students who were low achievers were enrolled. Instructional…
Descriptors: High Schools, General Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Low Achievement
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Burke, Mack D.; Hagan, Shanna L.; Grossen, Bonnie – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1998
Describes six features of instruction that efficiently accommodate and accelerate learning of a diverse range of students in the general education classroom, including organizing instruction around big ideas, using conspicuous strategies, priming students with background knowledge, using mediated scaffolding, judiciously planning and organizing…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
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Grossen, Bonnie; Caros, Jennifer; Carnine, Doug; Davis, Betsy; Deshler, Don; Schumaker, Jean; Bulgren, Janis; Lenz, Keith; Adams, Gary; Jantzen, Jean-Ellen; Marquis, Janet – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002
This article describes the three major components of the BIG Accommodation Model, a program that focuses on restructuring traditional instruction through alternative programs designed to accelerate learning in students with disabilities and other students. The components include curricula engineered to accelerate learning; early, intensive…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Standards, Acceleration (Education), Concept Teaching
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Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D.; Bulgren, Janis A.; Davis, Betsy; Lenz, B. Keith; Grossen, Bonnie – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2002
This article discusses the Institute for Academic Access, created to study general education access for adolescents with disabilities, and the results of an accessibility study of nine high schools. Results found eight schools had no policy related to inclusion and seven had no designated services for providing student support. (Contains…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Access to Education, Disabilities, Inclusive Schools
Jones, Jennifer; Adams, Gary; Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D.; Davis, Betsy; Grossen, Bonnie; Bulgren, Janis A.; Marquis, Janet; Lenz, B. Keith – 2002
The sixth in a series of studies investigating the educational context and outcomes for high school students with disabilities (SWDs), this study compared views of general education and special education administrators on the educational programs for SWDs and other at-risk students. Administrators in three high schools in urban areas, three in…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Administrator Role, Disabilities, Educational Cooperation
Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Marquis, Janet; Bulgren, Janis A.; Lenz, B. Keith; Davis, Betsy; Grossen, Bonnie – 2002
This study investigated the lives of adolescents with and without disabilities in nine high schools in urban, suburban, and rural areas in Kansas, Washington, Oregon, and California. It gathered information on key contextual factors and realities that adolescents confront throughout the day. In this investigation, 53 ninth-grade high school…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Academic Achievement, Caseworker Approach, Disabilities
Schumaker, Jean B.; Bulgren, Janis A.; Davis, Betsy; Grossen, Bonnie; Marquis, Janet; Deshler, Donald D.; Lenz, B. Keith – 2002
The fifth in a series of studies investigating the educational context and outcomes for high school students with disabilities, this study examined instruction provided in inclusive general education classes in three high schools in urban areas, three in suburban areas, and three in rural areas. Five ninth-grade classes, including biology,…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Cooperating Teachers, Disabilities, Educational Technology
Bulgren, Janis A.; Lenz, B. Keith; McKnight, Melinda; Davis, Betsy; Grossen, Bonnie; Marquis, Janet; Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean B. – 2002
The seventh in a series of studies investigating the educational context and outcomes for high school students with disabilities (SWDs), this study examined the high school context within which students with and without disabilities must succeed and the supports in place for assisting them. A questionnaire was administered to 70 high school…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Cooperating Teachers, Disabilities, Faculty Development