State Recommended Student-Teacher Ratios for Mildly Handicapped Children

Author:

Thurlow Martha L.1,Ysseldyke James E.2,Wotruba Joseph W.3

Affiliation:

1. Martha L. Thurlow is assistant to the director, Instructional Alternatives Project and Minnesota University Affiliated Program. The focus of her research is on instructional decision making for students with mild handicaps at the preschool and elementary school levels, and on factors related to the postschool experiences of youth with mild, moderate, and severe disabilities.

2. James E. Ysseldyke is a professor of educational psychology and coordinator of the School Psychology Program at the University of Minnesota. He has been a special education teacher and school psychologist. Dr. Ysseldyke received his PhD from the University of Illinois. His research and teaching focus on development of appropriate instructional interventions for handicapped students.

3. Joseph W. Wotruba is a doctoral student in educational psychology and a research associate in the Instructional Alternatives Project in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He has been a psychologist in private practice focusing on appropriate interventions with families who have children with special needs.

Abstract

Mildly handicapped students are provided special education services partly because of a presumed need for intensive instruction in a setting in which there is a relatively small student-teacher ratio. Yet, little is known about current policy on student-teacher ratios. Fifty state education agencies were asked for state guidelines on student-teacher ratios; 39 states provided guidelines that could be reviewed. Extreme variation was found in state recommended ratios, in how ratios are defined, and in how they are presented. Also found were significant discrepancies between ratios specified in states' guidelines and ratios reported by the U.S. Department of Education in its annual report to Congress. Implications of these findings are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Education

Reference12 articles.

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