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

Table 6.  Course taking in a semester by instructional setting by students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning


  Overall High Moderate Low
  Special education General Education Special education General education Special education General education Special education General education
Percentage with any courses taken in setting 92 69 86 83 94 69 100 41
Average proportion of courses taken in setting 65 31 53 45 67 28 85 11
Percentage who took the following types of courses in setting1                
Academics 87 31 85 48 88 28 90 7
Vocational Education 65 44 32 46 56 31 78 16
Other nonacademics 70 61 53 73 74 62 97 36
1 Includes only students with mental retardation taking the kind of course specified.
NOTE: Percentages are population estimates based on weighted samples that range from approximately 70 to 550 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.