Teacher attitudes, as measured by The Scale of Teachers Attitudes towards
Inclusion Classrooms (STATIC) developed by H. Keith Cochran (1999), served as the
dependent variable. The 20-item attitudinal survey contains a six-point Likert scale
ranging from Strongly Disagree (0) to Strongly Agree (5). The measure was designed for
both special and general education teachers for the comparison of attitudes among
various groups of teachers. The instrument was normed on 481 teachers from school
districts in the Southeastern part of the United States. The instrument identified four
factors: Advantages and Disadvantages of Inclusive Education, Professional Issues
Regarding Inclusive Education, Philosophical Issues Regarding Inclusive Education, and
Logistical Concerns of Inclusive Education. Higher scores are indicative of positive
attitudes and lower scores are indicative of negative attitudes, however no specific cut off scores are offered by the author of the instrument.