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School generally find reading more difficult than mainstream students. For this
reason, the interviewer read out the statements for each Centre School student,
whereas mainstream students were usually able to complete the questionnaires on
their own and were only offered assistance if they needed it. In all cases the
interviewer checked that none of the statements were omitted, encouraged students to
complete all of the tests and made the data collection as reliable as possible.
FM radio hearing aids 31 were used for the hearing-impaired students. In all the selfreport
questionnaires there was no scope for an ‘I don’t know’ answer which could be
potentially very frustrating to a teenager but the interviewer encouraged them as
much as possible to provide an answer through conversation. This method was good
for students whose default answer can be ‘I don’t know’. Large, coloured, laminated
cards with the possible response words were put on the table to help students to
visualise the answers as well.
5.5 Quantitative data collection from teaching staff
As part of the monitoring, teaching staff also completed questionnaires at the same
four data collection times as the students. The Re-integration Readiness Scale (RRS)
developed by McSherry (1996), recommended by Professor Hallam 32 , was an
assessment tool that could be adapted well for this investigation and the questions
linked with the questions which were put to the students (appendix 5.5a).
This Re-integration Readiness Scale was written as part of a programme for pupils
with challenging behaviour. It was originally devised for use in a special school for
pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties or Pupil Referral Units but was
then further developed for use in a mainstream school. This version was named The
Coping in Schools Scale (CISS), was designed for both teachers and pupils to
complete. ‘Completion of the CISS identifies the pupil who is causing concern, gives
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$" !An FM hearing system is a wireless communication system which consists of a
transmitter which picks up the voice close to the speaker’s mouth and transmits it via
radio waves directly to the FM receiver, which is connected to the student’s hearing
aid.
32 Dean of the Faculty of Policy and Society and Professor of Education at the
Institute of Education in London.
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