Special Needs Education [electronic resource]: Statistics and Indicators /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,publisher.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2000.
This book provides a full account of a totally new approach to making international comparisons in the field of special needs education. It makes comparisons of students with disabilities, learning or behaviour difficulties and disadvantages on the basis of the additional resources made available to them to access the curriculum, which in some countries covers some 35% of school-age students. To improve the quality of the comparisons made countries re-classified their own classification schemes and data into a new tri-partite cross-national classification system:-Category A covers those students whose disabilities have clear biological causes.-Category B covers those students who are experiencing learning and behaviour difficulties for no particular reason. -Category C covers those students who have difficulties arising from disadvantages.Among the many analyses provided, the book highlights the numbers of students involved, where they are educated (special schools, special classes and regular schools), and a breakdown by gender. Data has been provided by 23 countries: Austria, Belgium (Flemish Community), Canada (New Brunswick), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Description based upon print version of record.
""CONTENTS""; ""Chapter 1 Introduction""; ""Background""; ""Operational definitions of cross-national categories""; ""Notes""; ""Symbols for missing data""; ""Codes for OECD Member countries""; ""Chapter 2 Development of the Data Collection Instrument""; ""Background""; ""Meeting of national representatives""; ""Linkage to UOE data collection exercise""; ""Operational definition of special educational needs""; ""Categorisation of special educational needs""; ""Educational indicators""; ""Initial data to be gathered""; ""Scope and country involvement of the pilot visits""; ""Pilot visits""
""Second meeting of national representatives""""Field testing of the instrument""; ""Chapter 3 Qualitative Data Analysis""; ""Background""; ""Laws""; ""Facilitators and barriers of equity and inclusive education""; ""Definition of special education for gathering statistics""; ""Use of categories""; ""Substantial or minimal resources""; ""Cross-national classification""; ""Concluding comments""; ""Chapter 4 Comparative Analysis of Quantitative Data Based on National Categories of Disabilities""; ""Background""; ""Methodology""; ""Data on individual categories of disability""
""Description by category""""Further discussion of students experiencing difficulties in learning""; ""Conclusions""; ""Chapter 5 Analysis of the Quantitative Data for Cross-National Categories A, B & C""; ""Background""; ""Numbers of students with special educational needs""; ""Cross-national categories A, B & C""; ""Quantitative data on cross-national Category A""; ""Location of education""; ""Quantitative data on cross-national Category B""; ""Location of education""; ""Quantitative data on cross-national Category C""; ""Overall numbers and percentages""; ""Location of education""
""Discussion and summary""""Chapter 6 Additional Analyses of the Quantitative Data""; ""Introduction""; ""Special schools""; ""Special classes""; ""Regular classes""; ""Relative numbers of male and female students with special educational needs""; ""Discussion""; ""Student/Staff ratios""; ""Age distribution of students with special educational needs""; ""Discussion""; ""ISCED levels""; ""Resourcing""; ""Chapter 7 Discussion and conclusions""; ""References""; ""Questionnaire""; ""Notes on questionnaire""
""1. Exercise on relationship between categories in different national systems and cross-national categorisation""""2. ISCED levels of education""; ""3. Data tables""; ""4. Notes on data tables""; ""5. Annotation sheet""
This book provides a full account of a totally new approach to making international comparisons in the field of special needs education. It makes comparisons of students with disabilities, learning or behaviour difficulties and disadvantages on the basis of the additional resources made available to them to access the curriculum, which in some countries covers some 35% of school-age students. To improve the quality of the comparisons made countries re-classified their own classification schemes and data into a new tri-partite cross-national classification system:-Category A covers those students whose disabilities have clear biological causes.-Category B covers those students who are experiencing learning and behaviour difficulties for no particular reason. -Category C covers those students who have difficulties arising from disadvantages.Among the many analyses provided, the book highlights the numbers of students involved, where they are educated (special schools, special classes and regular schools), and a breakdown by gender. Data has been provided by 23 countries: Austria, Belgium (Flemish Community), Canada (New Brunswick), the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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