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Functional Measurement of Special Education Teachers' and Students' Expectations Toward Job Training for Persons with ...
ISSN: 2292 - 2598Publisher: author   
Functional Measurement of Special Education Teachers' and Students' Expectations Toward Job Training for Persons with ...
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Publisher: Lifescience Global Inc.
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Abstract
Persons with intellectual disability (PWID) have fewer opportunities for enrolment in school programs and post-school employment than do their peers with typical development. Evidence suggests that attitude toward PWID is a main factor in either promoting or limiting better life conditions for this population. In this paper, the goal was to determine the cognitive information integration rules underlying the expectations of 174 special education teachers and students with regard to job training for PWID. In order to accomplish this goal, four factors (Gender, Severity of disability, Type of task, and Emotional traits) were orthogonally combined to implement a cognitive algebra study design. We obtained 48 experimental conditions, with each one presented as a scenario describing a PWID in a work training situation. Participants read these scenarios and were asked to judge the probability of the success of PWID with regard to learning t...