Students with Disabilities, Learning Difficulties and Disadvantages [electronic resource]: Policies, Statistics and Indicators /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2008.
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated – special schools, special classes or regular classes – and in what phases of education – pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education.  It also includes information on the physical provision and on student/teacher ratios and discusses policy implications concerning special education. This new edition also presents for the first time trends in the data for students with DDD from 1999 to 2003.
Description based upon print version of record.
Foreword; Table of Contents; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Analysis of the Qualitative Data; Chapter 3. Analysis of the Quantitative Data Based on Categories Used Nationally; Chapter 4. Analysis of the Quantitative Data for Cross-national Categories A, B and C; Chapter 5. Additional Analyses of the Quantitative Data; Chapter 6. Analysis of Trends in the Quantitative Data for 1999, 2001 and 2003; Chapter 7. The Participation of Students with Disabilities, Difficulties and Disadvantages in Standardised Assessments: The Case of PISA 2003
Chapter 8. Over-representation of Males in the Students Receiving Additional Resources for Disabilities, Difficulties and DisadvantagesChapter 9. Further Discussion of Significant Issues
Includes bibliographical references.
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated – special schools, special classes or regular classes – and in what phases of education – pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education.  It also includes information on the physical provision and on student/teacher ratios and discusses policy implications concerning special education. This new edition also presents for the first time trends in the data for students with DDD from 1999 to 2003.
Students with disabilities.
Learning disabilities.