A Survey on the Effectiveness of Inclusive Education Implementation

at Elementary School

Martini Jamaris, Indina Tarjiah, Wuryani and Trisna Mulyeni 
(Department of Special Education, School of Education, Jakarta State University, Indonesia)

Abstract: Inclusive education is one of educational systems which allow all students to come into the system and disobey the condition of the students, normal or students with special needs, disobeys ethnics and languages back ground of the students, disobey social economic condition of the students, as well as, disobey geographical location of the students. In it’s implementation inclusive education can be conducted to allow the special need children to enter public school. Therefore, the research is aimed to study the effectiveness of the implementation of inclusive education, especially in elementary school which included: (1) precrusor to teaching (2) instructinal system and teaching approach, (3) teacher’s behaviors and, (4) follow-up to teaching. The research is conducated in Jakarta, the capital city of the Republic of Indonesia. Population of the research are heterogeneous which consist of 166 persons, they are teachers, students, parents and professionals. The sample size is consisted of 60 persons, which was, 10 times bigger compared to the application of sample formula which required sample size only 4 teachers. The back ground the sample multipication is because the method used in the study is survey. The insttrument validity range from r 0.35 to 0.6 while critical r in r table was 0.312 and the instrumen reliablity is 0.92, meaning that the instrument used is the reliable instrument. The research results shows that 60% of the respondent agree and 20% strongly agree that the instructional implementation for special needs students at inclusive elementary school was effective. Therefore, the implementation of the inclusive education i elementary school fulfilled the requirement of instructional process. However, about 20% of the respondent disagree. Consequently, it was necessary to do some efforts which lead to the quality improvement of inclusive elementary school instructional process for children with special.

Key words: survey, educational system, educational approach, inclusive education, children with special needs, effectiveness, implementation, effectiveness