Valued and performed or not? Teachers’ ratings of transition activities for young children with learning disability

Figures & data

Table 1. Mean value and standard deviation for performance and importance of transition activities.

Variable	N	Performance M (SD)	Importance M (SD)
CSSLD hold a parents meeting for all parents before child starts school	240	3.30 (1.750)	4.05 (1.315)
The principal holds individual meetings with parents before school start	239	3.78 (1.593)	4.43 (1.005)
The principal holds individual meetings with parents and their children before school start	238	3.41 (1.642)	4.06 (1.221)
CSSLD teachers have individual meetings with parents before school start	240	2.22 (1.295)	4.65 (0.890)
CSSLD teachers have individual meetings with parents and their children before school start	236	2.21 (1.310)	4.60 (0.995)
CSSLD and preschool have common parents meetings before school start	236	4.89 (1.398)	2.94 (1.380)
CSSLD teacher and preschool teacher meet to talk about what the child will learn and experience in CSSLD	244	2.19 (1.255)	3.90 (1.215)
CSSLD teacher and preschool teacher meet to talk about what the child has learnt and experienced in preschool	239	3.13 (1.547)	4.68 (0.751)
CSSLD teachers visit the child in preschool before school start	240	4.61 (1.089)	4.59 (0.858)
CSSLD teacher visit the child at home	238	2.05 (1.366)	2.55 (1.303)

Table 2. Number of matching ratings between performance and importance of transition activities.

	Corr.	Performed and important	Performed but not important	Not performed but important	Not performed not important	Missing
CSSLD organise parent meetings before children start school	0.685**	124	2	66	35	26
The principal holds individual meetings with parents about their children before school start	0.632**	147	2	65	14	25
The principal holds individual meetings with parents and their children before school start	0.628**	128	6	63	29	27
CSSLD teachers have individual meetings with parents before school start	0.534**	175	8	46	19	14
CSSLD teachers have individual meetings with parents and their children before school start	0.634**	187	2	37	9	20
CSSLD and preschool have joint parent meetings	0.472**	38	9	112	76	18
CSSLD teachers and preschool meet to talk about what the child has learnt and experienced in preschool	0.550**	178	6	45	7	17
CSSLD teachers and preschool meet to talk about what the child will learn in CSSLD	0.633**	103	7	99	29	15
CSSLD teacher visit the child at preschool	0.605**	172	7	51	9	14
CSSLD teacher visit the child at home	559**	16	3	99	121	14

Notes: The ratings always and often were categorised as performed, and the ratings never and seldom were categorised as not performed.

** Correlation significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

Table 3. Groups based on total scores on performed and valued activities.

Group	1	2	3	4
Cut off scores	0–10	11–20	21–31	32–40
N	0	1	73	135

Note: High scores indicate more transition activities rated as both performed and valued as important.