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Record W4410042593 · doi:10.1080/09638288.2025.2493219

Towards more inclusive schools: a scoping review of school-based disability awareness programs

2025· review· en· W4410042593 on OpenAlexafffund
Alice Kelen Soper, Trinity Lowthian, Amanda Doherty‐Kirby, Holly Marini, Melissa Shivnauth, Samantha Noyek, Kerry Britt, Michelle Phoenix, Sandra Moll, Christine Imms, Peter Rosenbaum

Bibliographic record

VenueDisability and Rehabilitation · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicInclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
Canadian institutionsQueen's UniversityUniversity of OttawaUniversity of TorontoMcMaster University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health Research
KeywordsPsychologyInclusion (mineral)Medical educationPedagogyGerontologyMedicineSocial psychology

Abstract

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PURPOSE: This scoping review explored the current worldwide landscape of school-based disability awareness programs that aim to increase students' positive attitudes towards their peers with disabilities. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The scoping review followed Arksey and O'Malley's (2005) six-stage process, revised by Levac et al. (2010). A comprehensive search was completed in seven electronic databases from September 2011 to June 2023. Data management was supported by Covidence review software. Descriptive statistics summarised frequency counts on program development, delivery, and components. Thematic analysis was used to generate themes related to educational content. RESULTS: Seventy-two studies from 26 countries, published in six languages, were included in the review. Programs were delivered across various school settings (kindergarten, primary, and secondary schools) by teachers, individuals with disabilities, researchers, and other professionals. Secondary school activities emphasised social contact and simulations, while kindergarten and early elementary programs used vicarious contact methods through storybooks and videos depicting characters with disabilities. Educational content included general knowledge of disability, feelings towards people with disabilities, and skills to interact with disabled peers. CONCLUSIONS: There is a wide range of school-based disability awareness programs that can inform strategies and approaches to support inclusion of students with disabilities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.018
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.051
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.095

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0180.051
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0050.005
Bibliometrics0.0180.017
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0030.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.050
GPT teacher head0.465
Teacher spread0.414 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations6
Published2025
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