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A Comparison of Social and Pre-vocational Competency Devices for use with Mildly Retarded Adolescents in Victorian Schools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Barbara Bliss  and
Stan A. Halpin
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Abstract

This research examines current systems being used to evaluate mildly I.H. adolescents in their last years of schooling. The suitability of the S.P.I.B. and the P.A.C-2 as evaluation devices in social and pre-vocational competence for students attending Victorian Special Schools was examined. Eighteen Special School S’s were administered the S.P.I.B. and evaluated on P.A.C-2. The sample showed to have similar competencies with the standardization samples of both the S.P.I.B. and the P.A.C-2. A positive correlation was found between Victorian S’s particular P.A.C-2 and S.P.I.B. ability areas. The P.A.C-2 has also shown that it has a realistic relationship between evaluation and further training.

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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , November 1978 , pp. 15 - 23
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1978

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