Table 10. Instructional activities outside the general education academic classroom for the whole class and for students with mental retardation, overall and by parent-reported levels of cognitive functioning
Whole class | Overall students with mental retardation | High | Moderate | Low | |
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Percentage who participated in: | |||||
Field trips | |||||
Rarely or Never | 65 | 66 | 55 | 79 | ‡ |
Sometimes | 27 | 22 | 24 | 21 | ‡ |
Often | 8 | 12 | 21 | 0 | ‡ |
Community-based instructional experiences | |||||
Rarely or Never | 74 | 79 | 71 | 90 | ‡ |
Sometimes | 23 | 10 | 10 | 10 | ‡ |
Often | 3 | 11 | 19 | 0 | ‡ |
‡ Responses for items with fewer than 30 respondents are not reported. NOTE: Percentages are population estimates based on weighted samples that range from approximately 40 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. |