Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (CDSE)
Category: Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Title I and IDEA are complementary federal responses to different sources of low achievement. Title I targets opportunity-mediated underachievement, while IDEA targets persistent underachievement for which deficits in ordinary educational opportunity are not the primary explanation. A simple framework and stylized simulation show that performance-based IDEA increasingly converges toward the same opportunity margin already served by Title I.