ERIC Number: EJ1186875
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Sep
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1540-7969
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Evaluating the Differential Impact of Interventions to Promote Self-Determination and Goal Attainment for Transition-Age Youth with Intellectual Disability
Shogren, Karrie A.; Burke, Kathryn M.; Anderson, Mark H.; Antosh, Anthony A.; Wehmeyer, Michael L.; LaPlante, Terri; Shaw, Leslie A.
Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, v43 n3 p165-180 Sep 2018
This study examined the differential impact of implementing the "Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction" (SDLMI) alone with implementing the SDLMI combined with "Whose Future Is It?" with transition aged students with intellectual disability in a cluster randomized trial in the state of Rhode Island. The state of Rhode Island is implementing systemic change in transition services and supports under the auspices of a Consent Decree entered into by the state with the U.S. Department of Justice. One area of focus is promoting self-determination during transition planning in the school context as a means to affect employment trajectories. This study focused on the impact of self-determination instruction on self-determination outcomes while youth were still in school, given research establishing a relationship between self-determination and employment outcomes. Latent mediation models suggested that students in the SDLMI-only group reported significant increases in their self-determination scores from baseline to the end of the year, and teachers of students in the SDLMI-only group saw students' goal attainment as predicting change in self-determination over the course of the year. Teachers reported significant changes in student self-determination in the SDLMI + "Whose Future Is It?" group. Implications for individualizing interventions to teach skills associated with self-determination in the context of planning and setting goals for the transition to integrated employment are discussed. [For the corresponding grantee submission, see ED585934.]
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Implementation, Intervention, Self Determination, Goal Orientation, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Intellectual Disability, Transitional Programs, Outcomes of Education, Supported Employment, Late Adolescents
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
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Identifiers - Location: Rhode Island
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Goal Attainment Scale
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R324L160002
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