Various methods have used to change of nondisabled students toward disabled students which is one of critical elements for effective inclusion. But several problems can be found when these various methods are applied into real classroom. The problem f...
Various methods have used to change of nondisabled students toward disabled students which is one of critical elements for effective inclusion. But several problems can be found when these various methods are applied into real classroom. The problem facing the regular classroom isi that the teacher has difficulties teaching and controlling behavior disorders among students with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of peer tutoring of students with disability with regular students. So, this study is about the effects of peer tutoring of disability students with regular students on behavior disorders and social studies achievements.
In this study, 21 students of disability from Kyonggi-DO K Middle School were examined. From this study 10 students of disability received tutoring from 10 regular students. Moreover, 10 students of disability, serving as the control group received no peer tutoring. Before beginning the behavior disorder experiment, I observed the behavior of students of disability in the classroom. Without giving any special instructions, I observed the action of the students twice using a video camera. This time, I observed twice more the behavior of the students using peer tutoring. In social studies achievements, the students were given a test before being tutored. After having 10 classes with a peer tutor, the same test was given. ANOCOVA analysis of variance were used to analyze differences in attitudes between two group.
Results of this study is summarized as follows:
1. Significant differences were found between experimental group and control group in behavior disorders. Peer tutors lowered the behavior disorders of the students.
2. Significant differences were found between experimental group and control group in social studies achievement. Peer tutors raised the social studies achievement of the students.
In the future research, there is a need to compare and examine the results using different peer tutors in order to solidify these types of experiment.