Evaluating Educational Services For Students With Handicap In Palestine Based On The Council For Exceptional Children's Standards

Abstract

The present study aims at evaluating the educational services provided to handicapped students in Palestine based on the Council of Extraordinary Children’s standards. The method of the study was represented by the descriptive analytical method, while the study sample consisted of (44) centers selected by a simple random method from all regions of north, central and south of Palestine, and the sample of workers in the centers, which consisted of (232) workers, who were chosen by the available random method from northern, central and southern regions of Palestine. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a scale for evaluating educational services provided to handicapped students was built based on the Council of Extraordinary Children’s standards, in its final form, the scale consisted of (79) paragraphs distributed over (12) domains, where the scale was applied after reaching its appropriate psychometric properties. The data resulting from the application of the scale had been processed statistically using a set of appropriate statistical
methods to reach the results of the study. The results showed the level of educational services provided to handicapped people in Palestine in light of the standards of the Council for Extraordinary children was generally high, where the total calculated average of the study tool was (3.99) with a standard deviation (0.57), while the domains were at the high level with the exception of one domain, which is the domain of transitional and professional services, which came to a medium degree, as the averages ranged between (4.18-3.61).