COPSSE researchers present their research findings at national and other conferences.
11/15/2003 |
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An Analysis of Alternatively Prepared Teachers Using the Schools and Staffing Survey
- Describes demographics of special education teachers who prepared through alternative certification routes.
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11/01/2003 |
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Indexing and Describing Alternative Routes to Certification
- Describes the breadth and depth of alternative route special education certification routes.
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04/01/2005 |
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Meeting No Child Left Behind’s Highly Qualified Requirement Via Alternative Route Training: Opportunities and Pitfalls
- Considers evidence showing effectiveness of special education preparation routes.
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11/01/2004 |
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Update: Related Service Providers, Program Design, and Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes
- Describes COPSSE research agenda and ongoing studies.
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10/01/2002 |
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Growing and Improving the Special Education Teacher Workforce: Balancing Competing Demands
- Describes factors that contribute to teacher shortages in special education.
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04/01/2004 |
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Special Educator Supply and Teacher Quality: The Critical Role of Teacher Induction
- Discusses the potential of induction programs to reduce teacher shortages and increase teacher quality.
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11/14/2003 |
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Teacher Supply and Teacher Quality: Effective Policies and Strategies
- Discusses factors contributing to special education teacher shortages.
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10/01/2004 |
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Beginning Teacher Quality in Special Education—Implications for Initial Preparation
- Describes the practices of beginning special education teachers and relates them to student engagement.
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04/17/2004 |
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Findings from Studies of Beginning Teacher Quality and Preparation Alternatives
- Overviews COPSSE research findings.
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11/18/2003 |
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Optimal Investments in Special Education Teacher Preparation
- Reports findings from a cost effectiveness analysis of special education preparation options.
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11/13/2003 |
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Studies of Beginning Teacher Instruction in Special Education
- Describes beginning special education teachers' efforts to teach reading, with implications for teacher education.
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06/01/2004 |
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Teacher Quality, Initial Preparation, and Meeting the No Child Left Behind Highly Qualified Mandate
- Addresses issues concerning teacher quality and preparation.
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04/01/2003 |
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What Does Highly Qualified Mean and How Do We Get There?
- Describes COPSSE efforts to measure beginning teacher quality.
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02/04/2005 |
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Beginning Teacher Quality Study
- Presents COPSSE research outcomes on effective beginning special education teacher instructional practices that promote student reading achievement.
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06/01/2003 |
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COPSSE Overview
- Provides an overview of the COPSSE center.
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04/10/2003 |
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Teacher Education: What Difference Does it Make?
- Presents teacher preparation effectiveness information gleaned from COPSSE syntheses.
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04/06/2005 |
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Beginning Teacher Quality
- Describes elements of teacher quality and the impact of legislation on teacher supply.
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04/07/2006 |
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Defining Teacher Quality in Special Education: Understanding the Practices, Knowledge and Beliefs of Effective Special Education Teachers
- Presents continued COPSSE research on effective beginning special education teacher instructional practices that promote student reading achievement.
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04/06/2006 |
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How Can You Be an Effective Special Education Teacher? Portraits of Literacy Expertise
- Presents COPSSE research on highly effective special education reading teachers by examining their practices, beliefs, knowledge, and personal attributes.
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04/02/2006 |
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What Do High Quality Special Education Teachers Know and Do to Improve Reading Achievement?
- Presents COPSSE research outcomes on effective beginning and experienced special education teacher instructional practices that promote student reading achievement.
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10/29/2005 |
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An Examination of Beginning Teacher Instruction in Special Education: Instructional Reading Practices that Result in Student Engagement
- Describes COPSSE research on beginning special education teachers' instructional reading practices that result in varying degrees of student engagement.
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10/29/2005 |
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Teacher Education in the 21st Century: Issues and Research Insights for Special Education Teacher Education
- Provides research insights and examines various issues related to special education teacher education in the 21st Century.
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10/03/2005 |
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Traditional and Test-Only Routes to Special Education: How
Experiences and School Variables Influence Classroom Practice
- Examines how experiences and school variables influence special education classroom practice.
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11/10/2006 |
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"You Know What Works and What Doesn't:" How Special Education Teachers Individualize Instruction for Their Students
- Presents COPSSE study of beginning special education teachers' reading practices with a focus on how teachers individualize instruction in their classrooms.
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11/10/2006 |
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Defining Teacher Quality in Special Education: What We Have Learned About Teaching Reading?
- Presents findings from two COPSSE studies aimed at understanding the knowledge and classroom practices of 30 beginning special education teachers, and a larger pool of 60 special education teachers who varied in classroom practice.
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11/10/2006 |
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The Supply of Teachers from Traditional and Alternative Preparation Routes in Special and General Education
- Discusses the productivity and adequacy of a variety of teacher sources to address the need for developing a highly qualified national teaching force in both special and general education.
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11/09/2006 |
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Special Education Teacher Attrition: What We Know, What We Can Do
- Explores the effects of teacher characteristics and preparation, teacher recruitment and induction, work assignment factors, and personal influences on teachers’ career decisions.
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11/10/2006 |
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Technology and Teacher Education
- Presents study findings from the University of Kansas and the Kansas Infinitec Coalition concerning issues central to technology integration and assistive technology solutions for students with disabilities.
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11/09/2006 |
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Special Education Teacher Education: An Update
- Presents overviews of research in the areas of special education teacher supply and demand; attrition and retention; initial preparation and beginning teacher quality; technology applications in teacher education; the current status of alternative route preparation and teacher preparation cost effectiveness.
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11/08/2006 |
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Alternative Route Programs for Certification in Special Education: What We Know About Program Design, Instructional Delivery, and Participant Characteristics
- Provides recent findings from initial and secondary analyses of a comprehensive database of alternative route special education preparation programs.
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11/08/2006 |
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Cost Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Routes
- Presents findings from University of Florida and Johns Hopkins University researchers concerning their study of cost and cost effectiveness with a focus on alternative routes and their design.
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11/08/2006 |
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What do High Quality Special Education Teachers Know and Do to Improve Reading Achievement?
- Presents COPSSE research outcomes on effective beginning and experienced special education teacher instructional practices that promote student reading achievement.
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04/19/2007 |
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Teacher Turnover in Special Education
- Provides research insights and examines various trends related to special education teacher shortages and teacher turnover trends.
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04/19/2007 |
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Linking Teacher Quality and Teacher Preparation
- Presents findings from two COPSSE studies aimed at understanding the knowledge and classroom practices of 33 beginning special education teachers and a larger pool of 62 special education teachers who varied in classroom practice.
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04/19/2007 |
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Alternative Routes to Certification
- Provides further findings from the analyses of alternative route special education preparation programs.
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04/19/2007 |
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Changing the Way We Do Business: Technology and Teacher Education
- Discusses the role of technology in teacher education and its future implications for the field of special education.
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04/19/2007 |
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Preparing Teachers for the Growing English Language Learner Population
- Addresses the need to prepare regular and special education teachers to work with the increasing number of English Language Learners found in today’s classrooms.
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