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

Table 14.  General education vocational 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 appropriate 4 3 5
Somewhat appropriate 33 26 38
Very appropriate 63 71 58
Expecting student to keep up with others in class 72 79 64
Perceiving student as keeping up with others in class 71 72 71
‡ 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.