Peabody College
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5548
2024-03-28T16:56:21ZBreaking the Silence: Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities Speak-Up About Their Support Needs
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/18660
Breaking the Silence: Siblings of Individuals with Disabilities Speak-Up About Their Support Needs
Neff, Gillian
Sibling relationships are important in that they can help predict the social-emotional development, understanding, and outcomes, and help shape the relationship between them. Due to these multi-facet predictors, it is critical that siblings of individual with disabilities feel supported from their childhood to their adult lives as they navigate the new responsibility and caretaking for their sibling with a disability. Unfortunately, research on siblings of individuals with disabilities is a lacking field of special education. There is a need for research to better understand and determine the unique needs of the sibling of individuals with disabilities. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to analyze the views of siblings on what could have been helpful to support them while growing up, through their childhood and teenage years. Through an online and paper survey siblings’ perspective were collected, and the views of 446 siblings of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy were analyzed. A total of six themes were identified from the perspectives of these siblings. Findings suggest that most siblings felt they were ‘not adequately’ supported during childhood, and identified various supports as potentially beneficial, to them, their families, and their communities. Implications for future research and future practice are discussed.
2024-02-26T00:00:00ZChoice of Alternative Seating for Preschool Children
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/18544
Choice of Alternative Seating for Preschool Children
Alternative seating options and choice as an antecedent intervention have been previously researched. This study evaluated the effectiveness of a choice of alternative seating on in-seat behavior and engagement for preschool children during circle time. An A-B-A-B withdrawal design was combined with an Alternating Treatments Design (ATD) to evaluate the relationship between participant choice and dependent variables while simultaneously comparing alternative seating options in contrast to typical instructional seat (i.e., floor). Results demonstrate alternative seating and choice (in isolation or combined) can increase engagement and in-seat behavior.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZBots Impact On Online Surveys Within Special Education Research
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/18543
Bots Impact On Online Surveys Within Special Education Research
Deheck, Caroline
Researchers use online surveys to collect data from diverse populations (Phillips, 2017; Simone, 2019a). With the use of online surveys comes the potential for Artificial Intelligence Bots (AI Bots) to enter a survey and pose as valid participant. In this study we asked participants to inform us about their online research and if bots impacted their research in any way. To be eligible for the survey participants had to conduct an online survey in the field of special education research from 2010 to present. The participants could report up to ten surveys they have conducted since 2010 and if bots impacted their online survey. Out of the 88 surveys reported, 50 surveys (56.8%) had known or suspected bots. Of the participants who reported having known or suspected bots the mean percentage of bot responses in their data set was between 21%-40% of survey responses. When participants had known or suspected bots in their survey they reported having an increased amount of time during data cleaning. Having an increased number of bots in your survey can lead to data results being skewed (Storozuk et al., 2020). Currently, there is no research on how published online research results might be skewed due to bots posing as participants.
2023-01-01T00:00:00ZUnderstanding Enrollment at Hoosac Valley Regional School District: Who Stays, Who Leaves, and Why?
http://hdl.handle.net/1803/18539
Understanding Enrollment at Hoosac Valley Regional School District: Who Stays, Who Leaves, and Why?
Henault, Michael; Linkenhoker, Kelly
This improvement project was designed in collaboration with Hoosac Valley Regional School District, a rural Massachusetts school district facing a cycle of enrollment decline that is adversely affecting their ability to formulate a budget that offers competitive programming. Researchers sought to understand how to increase and sustain enrollment by identifying push and pull factors that lead families to consider school choice. The project employed an exploratory sequential design that gathered data from focus group participants and then explored findings deeper using quantitative analysis of state reported data. We found that the most salient factors driving school choice were the following: perceptions of disorder within HVRSD schools, low levels of resources, low academic achievement, non-traditional school structures and facilities, and ineffective district-wide communication.
Leadership and Learning in Organizations capstone project
2023-08-01T00:00:00Z