Attitudes Towards Inclusive Schooling - A study on Students', TEachers' and Parents' attitudes

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Contents

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Acknowledgements

Foreword

Abstract

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Inclusive education in Austria

1.2.1 Assessment regulations and practice of SEN in Austria

1.2.2 Austrian’s pathway towards inclusion

1.2.3 Austrian’s actual situation of inclusive education

1.2.3.1 Numbers and facts

1.2.3.2 The social participation of students with SEN in inclusive education in Austria

1.2.3.3 Individualization and differentiation in Austrian’s inclusive classes

1.3 Attitudes towards inclusive schooling

1.3.1 Definition of attitudes

1.3.2 Students’ attitudes

1.3.3 Teachers’ attitudes

1.3.4 Parents’ attitudes

1.3.5 The link between students’, teachers’ and parents’ attitudes

Chapter 2: The ATIS-STEP Study

2.1 Purpose, research questions and hypotheses of the study

2.1.1 Purpose of the study

2.1.2 Research questions

2.2 Method

2.2.1 Design and procedure

2.2.2 Sample

2.2.2.1 Sample of the quantitative study

2.2.2.2 Sample of the qualitative study

2.2.3 Measures

2.2.3.1 Assessing attitudes towards inclusive schooling of students with SEN

2.2.3.2 Assessing previous contact

2.2.3.3 Further variables

2.3 Data analysis

2.4 Results

2.4.1 Results of the quantitative study

2.4.1.1 Psychometric quality of the CATCH short version used

2.4.1.2 Mean scores on the attitudes

2.4.1.3 Correlation between the attitudes towards students with LD, BD and students without SEN

2.4.1.4 Stability between the attitudes towards students with LD and BD over one school year

2.4.1.5 Correlations between the students’, mothers’, fathers’ and teachers’ attitudes towards students with LD, BD and students without SEN

2.4.1.6 Prediction of attitudes towards students with LD, BD and students without SEN

2.5.1 First results of the qualitative study

2.5.1.1 Linking the vignettes with students with SEN in the class

2.5.1.2 Advantages and disadvantages of inclusive schooling from the participants’ perspective

Chapter 3: Discussion

3.1 Discussion of the used sample

3.2 Discussion of the used instrument

3.3 Interpreting the participants’ attitudes towards students with and without SEN

3.4 Links between students’, teachers’ and parents’ attitudes

3.5 The influence of contact on attitudes towards students with SEN

3.6 Prediction of the development of students’ and parents’ attitudes

3.7 Results from the qualitative part of the study

3.8 Summarizing the results of the study referring on the study’s research hypothesis

3.9 Conclusion and future direction

References

List of Abbreviations

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