RJA #6a: Websites

search engines

Resource searched or tool used: www.altavista.com
Keywords used: Mainstreaming education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Just typed in keywords in search
Date of search: 02/25/10
Number of hits: Does not say
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

meta and multi search engines

Resource searched or tool used: www.bestsearch.com
Keywords used: Mainstream education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): typed keywords into search
Date of search:03/01/10
Number of hits:?
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

directories

Resource searched or tool used: www.wowdirectory.com

Keywords used: Mainstream Education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): typed keyword into search
Date of search: 03/01/10
Number of hits: 246
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 4

invisible web search tools

Resource searched or tool used: www.incywincy.com
Keywords used: Mainstream Education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): typed keyword into search
Date of search: 03/01/10
Number of hits: 191,874
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3

other appropriate search tools

Resource searched or tool used: groups.yahoo.com
Keywords used: Mainstream education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): typed keywords into search
Date of search: 03/01/10
Number of hits: 190
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 2

RJA #5c: Reference Articles

Name(s) of author(s) of the article: Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Date of publication: 2010
Name of publisher: Merriam-Webster Online

Resource searched: mainstream
Keywords used: mainstream
Date of search: 22 February 2010
Number of hits: 2
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mainstream

RJA #5b: Periodical Articles

Shah, Sonali
Special or mainstream? The views of disabled students
Research Papers in Education
Vol. 22 Issue 4
Dec2007
p425-442

EBSCOhost
Mainstreaming in education
02/11/10

RJA #5a: Books

Name(s) of author(s), editor(s), translator(s), and/or compiler(s): Guofang Li
Title and subtitle of the book: Multicultural families, home literacies, and mainstream schooling
Place of publication (include state if needed): Charlotte, N.C.
Name of publisher: Information Age Pub.
Date of publication (copyright): c2009

Resource searched: Auraria Library
Keywords used: mainstream and education
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): and
Date of search: 02/22/2010
Number of hits: 76
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3

RJA #4c: Research Question Check

Luc Arnold
http://lucarnaudsresearchjournal.blogspot.com/2010/02/eng-1020-rja-3c.html#comment-form

Richard Klemm
http://dickeng1020.blogspot.com/2010/02/rja3b-rja3c.html#comment-form

RJA# 4b: Search Strings

BOOLEAN

mainstreaming and special education
special education and students
k - 12 and special education
mainstreaming and teachers
mainstreaming and teachers and attitude

RJA #4a: Keywords

FOREST LOG

Mainstreaming -Special education, Cross - teaching, school, teachers
Help - aid, assist,benefit, comfort, guidance, helping hand
Students - apprentice, first year student, learner, scholar, undergrad
Perform - achieve, act, be engaged in, complete, comply, dispose
School - academy, establishment, department, institute

RJA #3c: Research Question

• Mainstream education gives the student with disabilities the feeling of being normal.
• The teachers are not trained in special education.
• Students with disabilities take most of the time away from students with no disabilities.
• It cost more to mainstream education.
• mainstreaming benefits both disabled & non disabled by showing them how diverse the world is.
• Mentally disabled students who graduate are not at the same level as non-disabled with same degree.
• Disabled people(mentally) may never enter society as contributing member, so school is wasted time and funding them.
• Costs to school system to separate diversity and cater to the needs outweigh benefits and cost of separate schools.
  
• Disadvantages with separating disabled students.
• Define disabled and mentally challenged.
• Teachers trained in special education having enough funding/supports to handle classes of mentally challenged students.
• Students without disabilities actions towards disabled students and the effect on disabled.

RJA #3b: Research Topic Focus

Mainstream Education

• Mainstream education gives the student with disabilities the feeling of being normal.
• The teachers are not trained in special education.
• Students with disabilities take most of the time away from students with no disabilities.
• It cost more to mainstream education.
• mainstreaming benefits both disabled & non disabled by showing them how diverse the world is.
• Mentally disabled students who graduate are not at the same level as non-disabled with same degree.
• Disabled people(mentally) may never enter society as contributing member, so school is wasted time and funding them.
• Costs to school system to separate diversity and cater to the needs outweigh benefits and cost of separate schools.
  
• Disadvantages with separating disabled students.
• Define disabled and mentally challenged.
• Teachers trained in special education having enough funding/supports to handle classes of mentally challenged students.
• Students without disabilities actions towards disabled students and the effect on disabled.
  

RJA #3a: Research Topic Exploration

I started out by making my account on Delicious.com. I then went to my Google Schloar, and typed in,"mainstream Education" and I found many articles that are going to help me argue my point and also fight my point. I bookmarked the sites on Delicious.com so that I could come back later for a better look. I then contiuned on my search for more information on mainstreaming education. I also went to wikipedia to get a good general idea of the topic and used some of the refrences at the bottm of the page to try and get more credible sources.