Evidence of Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education in an English Population

Autor/inn/en	Strand, Steve; Lindsay, Geoff
Titel	Evidence of Ethnic Disproportionality in Special Education in an English Population
Quelle	In: Journal of Special Education, 43 (2009) 3, S.174-190 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4669
DOI	10.1177/0022466908320461
Schlagwörter	Educational Needs; Poverty; Disproportionate Representation; Foreign Countries; Minority Groups; Academic Achievement; Special Education; Ethnicity; Census Figures; Gender Differences; Age Differences; Identification; Regression (Statistics); United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Armut; Ausland; Ethnische Minderheit; Schulleistung; Special needs education; Sonderpädagogik; Sonderschulwesen; Ethnizität; Volkszählung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Differences in the proportions of students identified as having special educational needs (SENs) across ethnic groups have historically been of concern in the United Kingdom and the United States. However, the absence of student-level data has hindered investigation of the reasons for such disproportionality. The authors present an analysis of the 2005 Pupil Level Annual School Census for 6.5 million students aged 5 to 16 years in England. Logistic regression analyses were completed to calculate the odds ratios of having identified SENs both before and after adjusting for the influence of age, gender, and socioeconomic disadvantage (poverty). Poverty and gender had stronger associations than ethnicity with the overall prevalence of SENs. However, after controlling for these effects, significant over- and underrepresentation of some minority ethnic groups relative to White British students remained. The nature and degree of these disproportionalities varied across categories of SENs and minority ethnic groups and were not restricted to judgmental categories of SENs. (Contains 7 tables and 6 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10