- Title
- The effects of special education support on young Australian school students
- Creator
- Dempsey, Ian; Valentine, Megan; Colyvas, Kim
- Relation
- International Journal of Disability, Development and Education Vol. 63, Issue 3, p. 271-292
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1034912X.2015.1091066
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Determining the effectiveness of many special education interventions is most difficult because of the practical and ethical limitations associated with assigning participants to a control or non-treated group. Using Longitudinal Study of Australian Children data, this article utilised eight different propensity score analysis methods to determine if a cohort of young primary school children receiving special education services significantly improved their literacy and numeracy skills, social skills and their behaviour, two years after the commencement of the special service, in comparison to a “matched” group of students who did not receive special education support. The children receiving special education support performed statistically significantly less well than the different matched groups across all outcome measures. This result is consistent with the findings from two similar studies in the US and calls into question the effectiveness of special education services for the majority of Australian students with additional needs.
- Subject
- disability; effectiveness of special education; propensity score analysis; special education; special education research; special education services; special education support; students with additional needs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1327134
- Identifier
- uon:25580
- Identifier
- ISSN:1034-912X
- Language
- eng
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