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Secondary School Experiences and Academic Performance of Students With Mental Retardation
NCSER 2009-3020
July 2009

Table 12.  General education academic teachers' perceptions and expectations for students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning


  Overall High Moderate Low
Percentage of students whose teachers reported:    
Perceiving the appropriateness of student's placement as:    
Not at all/not very appropriate16215
Somewhat appropriate383341
Very appropriate454654
Expecting student to keep up with others in class848091
Perceiving student as keeping up with others in class544869
‡ Responses for items with fewer than 30 respondents are not reported.
NOTE: Percentages are population estimates based on weighted samples that range from approximately 60 to 140 across variables.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Special Education Research, National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2), Wave 1 general education teacher survey, 2002.