Educational Disabilities
in the Schools
January 29th, 2008
Today’s Objectives
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Presentations
The Narrative of Special Education
Role of IQ in Narrative
Multiple Reforms
Presentations
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Schedule sent out last week
Conflicts to be resolved?
Today’s note taker: Brettjet!
Rubric of what I look for…
Meet with me at least once…
Narrowing down to your topic!
Inspirational Quote
“The intersection of the world’s needs and
your greatest passion is where you find
your purpose in life…”
Within Your General Topic
• A population
– A disability group
– A group based on ethnic, cultural, linguistic, age,
gender, or other differences
• A behavior/outcome
– Academic
– Personal
– Family
• An intervention, strategy, measure, or reform
– What works? What doesn’t? Why?
– Proposals tend to focus on measuring or
comparing interventions
Brainstorming
• What ideas do you have about topics
you want to pursue?
• Do you have a particular population in
mind?
• Outcome?
• Intervention?
Narrative of Special
Education
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Individual perspectives
Multiple “stories”
Encoding of the narrative
Research and the narrative
– Confirming
– Questioning
• Shaping the narrative
• With your team, “graffiti” one completion
of “special ed is…” for each letter of the
alphabet.
• Remember: What does graffiti look like?
• You can use words and/or phrases
• You will be timed!
Individual Perspectives
• How did we characterize special education?
• What factors influence your perspective on
– the purpose of special education?
– Its effectiveness?
– The future of special education?
The Readings: Multiple
Perspectives
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History depends, in part, on disability
History as collective memory
Cultural factors
Highlighted by individual stories
– Legal cases
– Exemplary cases
– Emotional cases
Kauffman (1999-2000)
Did any of the “obits” resonate with you or
capture some of your perspectives?
– What is known?
– What do we need to know?
– Why do we need to know it?
Break!
• When we come back…
– Use of IQ
– Referrals and placement
– Why stats reform?
Encoding the Narrative
• McMillan & Forness (1998)
– Pros of IQ testing include…
– Cons of IQ testing include…
– Purpose of Larry P. decision was to…
UCR Research Program
With a partner, describe…
Purpose of the research program
Methods they used
Key finding(s)
Multiple Reforms Affect the
Referral and Placement
Process!
• Reforms…
– In law…
– In practice…
– In training…
– In research…
Statistical Reforms
• Why do you think we included this
article in the first week of class?
– Single Case Design
– Measuring reliability
– Effect Size
– All of this leads to…
Shaping the Future
Narrative
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“What works” and “evidence-based” practices
Achievement standards
Primacy of inclusion
Financial concerns
“Teacher Quality”
Quantitative methods
For Next Week…
• Brettjet will send her notes to you!
• I will send out resources based on your
ideas for your presentations.
• Questions to guide your reading will be
sent out to you on Monday.
• Let me know if you have questions!