Recommendations: The authors recommended that those designing staff development programs attempt to include components that facilitate discussion of values and practices among the teachers being trained.
Article #3: Cheney, D. & Harvey, V.S. (1994). From segregation to inclusion: One district's program changes for students with emotional/behavioral disorders. Education and Treatment of Children, 17(3), 332-346.
Purpose of the Study: Part of staff development involves determining the degree and type of need a school district has. This study attempted to make such a determination as it related to one school district's to include programs for emotionally and behaviorally disturbed students.
Size of the Sample: The abstract only states that "placement data," was used for the school district, data which covered four separate years.
Length of the Study: The research covered a four year period of data collection; however, this data was already available. Therefore, the actual study covered only the time needed to collect and analyze these existing data. The abstract did
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