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Multiple and Complex Needs: Researching the Views of Pupils with Multiple and Complex Needs. Is It Worth Doing and Whose Interests Are Served by It?
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Wright, Kevin – Support for Learning, 2008
Because of what are perceived by some as potential challenges it is still commonplace for research to fail to seek the opinions of pupils with multiple and complex needs. While many such pupils do have significant communication difficulties, along with other disabilities, which are undoubtedly a constraint, it is crucial in order to be inclusive,…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Mainstreaming, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Assistive Technology
An Evaluative Review of Social Validation Research Involving Persons with Handicaps.
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Storey, Keith; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of Special Education, 1991
This review of 50 social validation research studies involving persons with handicaps concludes that social validation procedures are an appropriate and important component of applied behavior analysis. Discussed are methodological issues, social importance of effects, social significance of goals, social appropriateness of procedures, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavioral Science Research, Disabilities, Program Validation
If You're Not Doing It Already, Verify Your Training Objectives.
Dobles, Robert W.; And Others – Training, 1979
A step-by-step method can determine whether training programs match the training needs as expressed by rated objectives. Trainers calculate the time devoted to each objective while the program users rate the importance of each objective. The match between importance and time is a measure of program efficiency. (LRA)
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Needs, Educational Programs, Needs Assessment
Check Them Out! Outstanding School Library Programs.
Roberts, Sarah Jane – School Library Journal, 1987
Describes a study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education which identified 62 outstanding library programs and lists 22 model school library programs and 16 programs serving school systems. Topics discussed include the search process, selection criteria, school library programs, cooperation, innovations, technology, and the catalog that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Resources Centers, Library Services, Library Surveys
Socially Validating the Vocational Gains of a Visually Impaired Student in a Technological Work Setting.
Storey, Keith; Sacks, Sharon Zell – Education of the Visually Handicapped, 1987
A visually-impaired 17-year-old was videotaped in a work setting before and after vocational training. The videotape was shown to 35 graduate students and student teachers, whose ratings of the student's vocational competence validated behavior changes (e.g., job task accuracy) resulting from the training as being clinically important. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Job Training, Program Validation, Secondary Education
Establishing the Credibility of Test Results.
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LeMahieu, Paul G.; Wallace, Richard C., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Responding to doubts about the validity of test results that showed the Pittsburgh School District's school improvement project to be highly successful, the district validated its results by administering a different test to a representative sample of students in secure conditions. (MCG)
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Educational Testing
Departmental Evaluation, and How It Can Be Made to Work to Our Advantage.
Timpe, Eugene F. – Bulletin of the Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, 1979
This article gives guidelines for the evaluation of foreign language departments that should lead to an upgrading of the profession. (CFM)
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Class Size, College Language Programs, Departments