This was a quantitative study of 100 educators from various job codes within
the intervention assistance teams (IATs) of 16 schools. This study examined the
perceptions of IAT members of factors impacting referrals to special education.
The results of this study yielded the following as it related to the perceptions
and self-reported behaviors of IAT members in an urban school district:
1. Intervention assistance team members perceived that four factors impacted
referrals: intervention strategies, team contribution, teacher efficacy, and
coping strategies.
2. Analyses of data did not support differences by position among IAT
members in their perceptions of factors impacting referrals as being
dependent on schools. The teachers, administrators, and other (support staff)
in all of the 16 sample schools perceived each factor similarly. 3. IAT members exhibited mixed perceptions concerning their job code duties
as relative to team efficacy.
4. Behaviors of IAT members were inconsistent in making routine visits to the
classroom to observe candidates and inspecting samples of student work
prior to meeting with the IAT and graphing progress and results of IAT.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/3219 |
| Date | 12 April 2006 |
| Creators | Vasquez, Cherrye S. |
| Contributors | Carter, Norvella P. |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 481948 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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