יעילות בית הספר ושיפור הישגיהם של תלמידים בבתי ספר לחינוך מיוחד במגזר היהודי ובמגזר הערבי בישראל

Eight special education schools, four Jewish and four Arab, participated in a study that examined the effects of organizational features on students' gains in three subjects: basic learning skills, reading comprehension and math. The Jewish and Arab schools were compared with regard to the relationship between organizational features and student gains. Results indicate (a) that there was a high correlation between school organizational efficiency and students' gains in basic learning skills and reading comprehension; and (b) that Jewish schools scored higher than Arab schools on the organizational features, but (c) the gap between the Jewish and the Arab students' gains was much more salient in favor of the Jewish students than the gap between the schools regarding their organizational features.