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Ryo Yoshii – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
The identification, diagnosis, and categorisation of students who qualified for special education have created long-standing controversy. This article explores Maximilian P. E. Groszmann's measurement practices, which were intended to facilitate instruction in the early twentieth-century United States. In 1900, Groszmann established a private…
Descriptors: Classification, Identification, Educational History, Students with Disabilities
Dias, Shawna; Wang, Xiaojing – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Mental illness is a growing public concern, particularly for persons in higher education. This research aims to distinguish mental health and stigma experiences between three academic communities: undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members. Methods: The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with nineteen…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Intervention, Social Bias, Undergraduate Students
Woods, Isaac L., Jr.; Floyd, Randy G.; Singh, Leah J.; Layton, Haley K.; Norfolk, Philip A.; Farmer, Ryan L. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2019
Labels for scores stemming from intelligence tests have been employed since their inception in the United States. The purpose of this study was to systematically identify and document score labels for IQs used during the past 102 years. Using pairs of reviewers, score labels from 40 tests were reviewed, and 61 unique labels were identified.…
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Scores, Intelligence Quotient, Labeling (of Persons)
McGee, Ebony O.; Botchway, Portia K.; Naphan-Kingery, Dara E.; Brockman, Amanda J.; Houston, Stacey; White, Devin T. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2022
Black doctoral students in engineering and computing fields experience racialized stress, as structural racism in STEM takes a toll on their sense of belonging and acceptance as intellectually competent in comparison to White and some Asian peers and faculty. Black doctoral students are often told by campus administrators that the source of this…
Descriptors: Racism, Self Concept, African American Students, Doctoral Students
Bergold, Sebastian; Hastall, Matthias R.; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2021
Negative stereotypes about intellectually gifted individuals prevail among teachers and in society although empirical research has debunked them. They are also dominant in mass media representations of gifted individuals such as newspaper reports. The present study investigated whether stereotypic representations in newspaper articles contribute…
Descriptors: Mass Media Effects, Academically Gifted, Stereotypes, Labeling (of Persons)
Croom, Marcus – Journal of Negro Education, 2020
"Barracoon: The Story of the Last 'Black Cargo,'" a nonfiction book by Zora Neale Hurston, was completed in 1931 but only published in 2018. Hurston's data were analyzed with race critical discourse analysis, using practice of race theory (PRT) to answer the following: How did Kossula conceptualize race over his lifetime? Inquiry…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Race, Discourse Analysis, Nonfiction
Katz, Lindsay; Nayar, Kritika; Garagozzo, Ariana; Schieszler-Ockrassa, Christine; Paxton, Jessica – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
This study examined the perception of an ASD label compared to Asperger's syndrome or no diagnosis. Seventy-one undergraduates read an adapted vignette (Ohan et al. J Autism Dev Disord 45:3384-3389, 2015) about an undergraduate with ASD, Asperger's Syndrome, or No Diagnosis. Participants also completed questionnaires. More positive ratings emerged…
Descriptors: Classification, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger Syndrome
Bygren, Magnus – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2020
Group differences in average grades prior to and after a step-wise introduction of blinded examinations at Stockholm University are examined. Relative to students with 'native' names, students with 'foreign' names appear to experience weak positive bias in the grading of their examinations, but the estimated effect is sensitive to model…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Evaluation, Grading
Lindholm, Sofia Kvist; Wickström, Anette – Global Studies of Childhood, 2020
Over the past decades, reports from official authorities and the media have suggested that there is a 'crisis' in young people's mental health. However, there is considerable uncertainty regarding how to interpret the data referred to in these alarming reports. The present article draws on 'the minority voices' of young people and theories…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Mental Disorders, Classification, Adolescents
Bourke, Brian – Whiteness and Education, 2020
In fights for social justice, allies and their efforts receive a significant amount of attention. This attention can be justified, as allies serve essential functions in efforts to eliminate inequalities and inequities present in social systems, which is central to work within social justice movements. However, 'the term ally has been rendered…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Discourse Analysis, Activism, Social Justice
Young Ah Lee; Marian Patricia Bea Francisco; Shariffa Khalid Qais Al-Said; Muna Yousuf Abdullah Al Bulushi; Ye Wang – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: This comparative study explored the perceptions of educational stakeholders in Oman and the Philippines concerning children with disabilities and the goals of special education. Stakeholders' perspectives can influence their professional behaviours and attitudes, which, in turn, can profoundly impact children with disabilities who already…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Stakeholders, Comparative Analysis, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Lynn S. Burdick; Catherine Corr – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2024
Nine-year old Eliza is a student at Meadows Elementary School where she receives special education services for her diagnosis of Emotional Disturbance. Her teachers are working together to try to bring Eliza back into the classroom after weeks of time spent in the office with no contact with her peers. Mr. Jimenez and Ms. Landon are collaborating…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances, Special Education
Maag, John W.; Kauffman, James M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2022
The controversy over the use labels for students who receive special education services under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act has been raging for decades. Do labels really serve an educational purpose? Do they stigmatize students? Do disabilities really exist? Are they just part of the normal distribution of human characteristics,…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Emotional Disturbances, Labeling (of Persons), Language Usage
Marsh, L. Trenton S.; Walker, Larry J. – Teachers College Record, 2022
Background/Context: Embedded in "common sense" and state-mandated reforms to close "the achievement gap," the urban school, especially those sites with a no-excuses orientation to learning, can produce and reproduce the carceral state in students' lives. The seemingly innocuous policies and processes limit access to educational…
Descriptors: Blacks, African American Students, Hispanic American Students, Males
Stride, Ashley – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The study used an arts-informed narrative inquiry design to better understand the perspectives and experiences of a former K-12 public school student (Haley) with a 504 plan and an emotional disability when navigating structures of authority in schools, in order to uncover factors that may facilitate or prevent stigmatization toward the population…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Social Bias, Students with Disabilities, Emotional Disturbances