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

Table 13.  Similarity of instructional experiences with those of the class as a whole in general education vocational classes of students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning


  Overall High Moderate Low
  Percentage of Students
Curriculum        
Same 62 65 62
Somewhat different 31 31 31
Very different 7 4 7
Instructional groupings        
Same 60 61 61
Somewhat different 34 29 36
Very different 6 10 3
Instructional materials        
Same 74 78 79
Somewhat different 20 17 17
Very different 6 5 4
Class activities        
Same 70 80 65
Somewhat different 26 18 33
Very different 4 3 20
‡ 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 160 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 student's school program survey, 2002.