Does Special Educator Effectiveness Vary Depending on the Observation Instrument Used?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn S. Johnson ◽  
Angela R. Crawford ◽  
Yuzhu Zheng ◽  
Laura A. Moylan
Keyword(s):  
Special Educator ◽  
Observation Instrument ◽  
Educator Effectiveness

Evaluating Special Educator Effectiveness

2014 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trisha D. Steinbrecher ◽  
James P. Selig ◽  
Joanna Cosbey ◽  
Beata I. Thorstensen
Keyword(s):  
Special Educator ◽  
Educator Effectiveness

EXPERIENCES, FRUSTRATIONS, AND BARRIERS, OF IPAD USAGE IN THE SPECIAL EDUCATION: LIFE SKILLS CLASSROOM FROM EDUCATORS PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-67
Author(s):  
D. J. Sullivan ◽  
S. Labby ◽  
A. Koptelov ◽  
S. L. Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Mixed Methods Study ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Special Educator ◽  
Communications Systems ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Communication Devices

The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine the barriers that special educator teachers encounter when using iPads within the Life Skills classroom. The research investigates the experiences, frustrations, and barriers through educators’ perceptions of iPad implementation. The influence of these issues suggests why iPad usage is not a device that special education classrooms are using in a widespread daily manner. Exploration of iPads as an educational tool and as a communication device is also discussed, along with considerations of other communications systems such as Picture Exchange Communication Systems and Alternative and Augmented Communication Devices is considered. Recommendations for further possible research are also discussed.

Special Educator Self-Advocacy: Support Your Students and Yourself

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-177
Author(s):  
Kyena E. Cornelius ◽  
Wendy W. Murawski
Keyword(s):  
Special Educator ◽  
Self Advocacy

Reciprocity in the Teacher-Pupil and Peer Verbal Interactions of Learning Disabled, Behavior-Disordered, and Regular Education Students

1984 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Moore ◽  
Richard L. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Regular Education ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Student Interactions ◽  
Verbal Interactions ◽  
Teacher Aide ◽  
Target Behaviors ◽  
Observation Instrument ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Behavior Disordered

The purpose of this study was to examine the reciprocal interactions of learning disabled (LD), behavior-disordered (BD), and regular education students. The interactions of 15 students from each diagnostic group (LD, BD, regular education) and their peers, teachers, and classroom aides were observed using a behavior observation instrument designed to monitor (a) frequency of 14 target behaviors, (b) direction of the interaction (i.e., given to or received from), and (c) status of the party involved in the interaction (i.e., peer, teacher, aide). A correlational analysis indicated that negative peer-student interactions were reciprocal. In contrast, neither positive or negative teacher-student interactions nor positive peer-student interactions were reciprocal. First-order conditional probabilities (i.e., the probability of a statement being followed by a selected response) showed that BD, LD, and regular students responded to others in a similar manner. Likewise, the teachers of the three groups were similar in their responses to students. In all groups, positive, negative, and neutral statements were most likely to be followed either by an absence of a response or by a neutral response.

Should a Special Educator Entertain Volunteers? Interdependence in Rural America

1984 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence W. Marrs
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Disabled Persons ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Special Educator ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Volunteer Program ◽  
Service Delivery Systems ◽  
And Training

Rural communities have a tradition of helping each other and of shared interdependence. The National Rural Independent Living Network is developing Community Independent Living Service Delivery Systems in over 500 communities by 1986. Strategies are provided for designing a volunteer program, recruiting and training volunteers, and linking volunteers with disabled persons.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Alcohol Beverage Types and Violence

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-200
Author(s):  
Aleksandra J. Snowden
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Neighborhood Characteristics ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Alcohol Outlets ◽  
Observation Instrument ◽  
Beverage Type ◽  
Social Observation ◽  
Ecological Association ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Relationship

There is substantial evidence of an ecological association between off-premise alcohol outlets and violence. We know less, however, about how specific beverage types that are sold in the outlets might explain the difference in violence rates across different alcohol outlets. Data on alcohol beverage types were collected for all off-premise alcohol outlets in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, using a systematic social observation instrument. Spatially lagged regression models were estimated to determine whether the variation in alcohol beverage types is related to robbery density net of important neighborhood predictors of crime rates. Availability of all alcohol beverage types (beer, wine, spirits, premixed, single beer, single spirits, single premixed) was positively associated with the density of robberies, net of neighborhood characteristics. Reducing alcohol beverages, regardless of the beverage type, sold at off-premise alcohol outlets may reduce violence in communities.

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