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Ball State University offers online graduate programs in applied behavior analysis and special education with focus in autism. Our ABA course sequence is verified by ABAI and meet the course work requirements to take the BCBA exam. Study at your own pace with 8-week and 16-week formats.
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Cost Effectiveness of Alternative Route Special Education Teacher Preparation
Content type: Journal Article
In this study, the authors estimated costs of alternative route preparation to provide states a basis for allocating training funds to maximize production. Thirty-one special education alternative route program directors were interviewed and completed cost...
Optimizing Special Educator Wellness and Job Performance Through Stress Management
Content type: Journal Article
Chronic stress is a pervasive issue among special education teachers and often escalates to the level of burnout. Not only does this put their health at risk, but prolonged stress also hampers their job performance and quite possibly affects student...
Explaining the Decline in Special Education Teacher Employment From 2005 to 2012
Content type: Journal Article
Demand for special education teachers grew continuously from the passage of Public Law 94-142 in 1975 through 2005, when this trend reversed. From 2005 to 2012, the number of special education teachers employed by U.S. schools declined by >17%. The primary...
Too Stressed to Teach? Teaching Quality, Student Engagement, and IEP Outcomes
Content type: Journal Article
Teacher stress and burnout have a detrimental effect on the stability of the teaching workforce. However, the possible consequences of teacher burnout on teaching quality and on student learning outcomes are less clear, especially in special education...
Special Educators’ Working Conditions in Self-Contained Settings for Students With Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: A Descriptive Analysis
Content type: Journal Article
Special education teachers (SETs) who teach students with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) in self-contained settings are often less qualified, more stressed and burned out, and more likely to leave teaching than other SETs, resulting in a less...
Predicting Special Educators’ Intent to Continue Teaching Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders in Self-Contained Settings
Content type: Journal Article
Schools experience difficulty retaining special educators to serve students with emotional or behavioral disorders (EBD) in self-contained settings, as they have higher rates of burnout and attrition than other educators. Administrators could prevent these...
Predicting Special and General Educators’ Intent to Continue Teaching Using Conservation of Resources Theory
Content type: Journal Article
Retaining teachers is an important priority for school leaders, especially in special education, a field with chronic shortages. We analyzed a nationally representative survey using conservation of resources theory to examine how job demands and resources...
Special Education Teachers of Color Retention Decisions: Findings From a National Study
Content type: Journal Article
Special education teachers of color are underrepresented in research about attrition and retention, despite evidence of their role in the academic, social, and emotional success of students of color. We used critical quantitative methods and structural...
Know What You Need: A Special Educator's Guide to Locating and Asking for Classroom Curricular Resources
Content type: Journal Article
High attrition rates among special education teachers is regularly credited to lack of administrative support, large caseloads, paperwork, lack of training, and overall job stress, but one key piece is often overlooked: lack of curricular resources...
Know What You Need: A Special Educator's Guide to Locating and Asking for Classroom Curricular Resources Hensley, Kiersten & Huddle, Sally 1/1/2021 53 3 2021 High attrition rates among special education teachers is regularly credited to lack of adminis
Content type: Journal Article
High attrition rates among special education teachers is regularly credited to lack of administrative support, large caseloads, paperwork, lack of training, and overall job stress, but one key piece is often overlooked: lack of curricular resources...