Goal fulfilment in school for the deaf and hearing impaired - batod

Basis for grade comparisonAccording to the Association of Hard of HearingPeople, the target group in question consists onaverage of 300 children per year cohort.The collection of data from the hearing centresgave an average of approximately 280 children ineach annual cohort.Statistics Sweden worked on the basis of1,313 civic registration numbers in the groupborn 1986‐1990 and retrieved these pupils’final grades from their registers. This searchresulted in only 911 grades, which can beexplained by the registers not containing anygrades from special school or any details ofassessments from compulsory school for pupilswith learning disabilities. Of 911 grades, 110were from different schools for the hearingimpaired and these were removed with thehelp of Statistics Sweden. A total of 801 gradesremained, from individually placed pupils.Special schools register final grades and, for theyears 2002‐2006, there were 306 final gradesfrom school year 10. A total of 200 gradeswere reported from the schools for the hearingimpaired for the same period.Some pupils – 32 in all – had a merit ratingof 0. These pupils were not included in thecomparison between types of schools. Theywere, however, included in the reporting of theproportion of pupils qualifying for a nationalprogramme and the proportion who achievedthe goals in all subjects.The non-response regarding grades is causedby the absence of merit ratings from Nya BroSchool. According to information from theNational Agency for Education, this involves fivepupils. A certain under-coverage of individualpupils at schools for the hearing impaired canalso occur. The greatest non-response arisesfrom the under-reporting of civic registrationnumbers from the years of birth 1986 and 1987.This means that the number of grades fromindividually placed pupils is on the low side forthe years 2002 and 2003. The under-reportingTable 6. Basis for results from school questionnaire.RowNumber21 Population for school questionnaire (Row 3) 267222 Non-response and overcoverage902*23 No. of1770questionnaires sentout by SCB24 No. who1341responded25 Over-coverage (Upper secondary pupils) 2426 Corrected population (Row 21 – Row 22 – Row 24) 174627 Corrected number of responses (Row 23 - Row 24) 131728 Response75%frequency*** Only 66% of parents sent in details of where their children went to school.Thus the high non-response rate.** If 1,317 responses from the schools are divided by 2,476 (Row 18) the result is 53%.This is probably the correct degree of coverage by the school questionnaire.Goal fulfilment in school for the deaf and hearing impaired31