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Special Education Student Experience: A Case Study of a Georgia High School
Get PDFIDEA students graduating at a rate far lower than their peers in the United States (Digest of Education Statistics, 2019). Students with disabilities are currently facing are entering post-secondary life with little or no understanding of their disability or how that disability may impact them in the future. The purpose of this study was to examine a public high school in Northeast Georgia with a lower graduation rate for special education students compared to non-disabled classmates to determine the factors impacting special education student graduation rates. In-depth interviews were used to examine the perceived relationship of the strategies and practices of special education teachers and SDT through the lens of high school graduation. Six veteran special education teachers who taught IDEA students in the general education setting were interviewed to gain an understanding of what policies, practices, and strategies they perceived to impact high school graduation. After interviews were recorded, transcribed, and coded, five major themes emerged which were the IEP, Relationships, Positive Practices, and Challenges. These five themes contained the major findings of the study which were the IEP, student success, choice, relationships, consistency, evaluation, and human resources were all contributing factions to the graduation rate of IDEA students. This study may contribute to the body of research which could help educators along with policy makers better understand how to help students overcome the barriers that are believed to hinder IDEA students from graduating.
Keywords: Special Education, GraduationChapter I: Introduction 1 -- Researcher Personal and Professional Background 1 -- Overview 2 -- Statement of the Problem 3 -- Purpose Statement 4 -- Research Questions 5 -- Significance of the Study 6 -- Conceptual Framework 7 -- Methodology 10 -- Limitations 13 -- Definitions of Terms 14 -- Chapter Summary 14 -- Chapter II: Literature Review 17 -- Statement of the Problem 17 -- Purpose 18 -- Research Questions 18 -- Introduction 19 -- Conceptual Framework 20 -- Public Education 20 -- Special Education 23 -- Legal Precedents 25 -- IDEA 29 -- Individualized Education Plans 30 -- Perceptions of the Individualized Education Plan 33 -- Impact of Teacher Practice on Student Achievement 38 -- Self Determination Theory 39 -- Framework for Student Led IEPs 45 -- Factors That Lead to High School Graduation 49 -- Chapter Summary 51 -- Chapter III: Methodology 52 -- Introduction 52 -- Researcher Design and Rationale 53 -- Setting 55 -- Role of the Researcher 56 -- Methodology 57 -- Participant Selection 57 -- Data Collection 58 -- Data Analysis 60 -- Validity 63 -- Ethical Procedures 64 -- Chapter Summary 65 -- Chapter IV: Participant Profiles 67 -- Summary of Participant Narrative Profiles 67 -- Corey 68 -- Kate 72 -- Elliot 75 -- John 79 -- Ralph 83 -- Kurt 87 -- Chapter Summary 92 -- Chapter V: Discussion of Themes 94 -- The IEP 98 -- Relationships 102 -- Motivation 107 -- Positive Practices 113 -- Challenges 118 -- Chapter Summary 123 -- Chapter VI: Discussion and Conclusions 124 -- Research Questions: Summary Discussion 126 -- Limitations 139 -- Implications 142 -- Recommendations for Future Research 147 -- Conclusions 149 -- Researcher’s Final Memo 152 -- References 155 -- APPENDIX A: Field Note Summary Form 167 -- APPENDIX B: Interview Protocol 169 -- APPENDIX C: Institution Review Board Approval/Exemption 171 -- APPENDIX D: Citi Certificate 173Truby, William F.Lairsey, John D.Bochenko, Michael J.Ed.D.Education in Leadershi
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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