- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- An analysis of the attitudes of regular and special education professionals toward inclusion, 1998
- Creator:
- Graham, Staci D.
- Date of Original:
- 1998-07-01
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The primary focus of this study was to examine regular educators' and exceptional educators' attitudes toward the inclusion of special needs students in regular education settings. The study involved 8 regular education teachers and 8 special education teachers from Dekalb County, Fulton County and Atlanta Public Schools. All of the subjects were enrolled in graduate school at Clark Atlanta University. The investigation utilized the Attitude Toward Inclusive Education Scale (ATIES). The scale contains sixteen items describing social, physical, academic and behavioral problems that may adversely affect functioning in the classroom. ATIES was utilized in seeking the answers to the following hypotheses: 1. Regular education teachers have negative attitudes toward including students with disabilities in their classrooms. 2. Special educators do not have negative attitudes toward inclusion. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that regular educators' perception of inclusion is not negative. The results of this study clearly show that many teachers agreed with the majority of the questions on the ATIES Scale.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1998_graham_staci_d
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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