Results of Study of Teacher Responses Teachers' responses to the Teacher Atti

(2) Responses related to teachers' views of the traditional arguments provided to support mainstreaming; and (3) Responses related to actual attitudes toward the mainstreaming process. This section of the study presents the findings observed for each of these categories.

Characteristics of Special Education Services Provided by Schools

Teachers were required to respond to several items regarding school services for special education students. These data (crosstabulated by both level of school (elementary, junior high, high school) and type of teacher (regular vs. special education)) are presented in Table 1. As can be seen from inspection of this table, maximum service delivery (as perceived by teachers) was offered by special education high schools. Of the regular schools, findings revealed that on the average both elementary schools and high schools offered more services than did junior high schools.

Teachers' Views of Traditional Arguments Provided To

Table 2 presents teachers' responses to two survey items, each of which listed a fairly traditional argument for mainstreaming. Regarding the argument that self-contained special education classes are likely to lead to labelling

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------------------ Children placed in self-contained special ed classes are more likely to be labeled than if permitted in regular classes 80 78 86 70 100 100 A child is socially isolated from peers when placed in a self- contained special education class 72 100 53 70 0 100 * Numbers are percentages of "Yes" responses all teacher groups evidenced fairly high levels of agreement; the lowest level of agreement being observed for the elementary school special education teachers (70%). Teachers also tended to believe that there was some credence to the notion that a child placed in a self-contained special education class was socially isolated. However, the most notable exception to this view was that of special education junior high school teachers, not one of whom believed this. Similarly, only about half of the regular high school teachers agreed with this statement. Attitudes Toward Mainstreaming Comparative Descriptive Findings The research questionnaire was used to assess nine specific attitudes toward mainstreaming. Teach
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