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The aim was to evaluate the applicability of the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ) adapted for use on the population of children in Serbia. The sample consisted of 901 children (age range 60-168 months) who did not have problems with coordination and the clinical sample of 58 children (age range 60-108 months). The parents assessed their child's coordination rating it on a 5-point Likert scale. Internal consistency of the instrument was 0.94, item-correlations were as high as over 0.70, test-retest reliability was good (r=0.97, p=0.00). The results revealed a significant positive correlation between the total questionnaire score and age (r=0.28, p=0.00). Factor analysis confirmed three-factor structure. The questionnaire had good sensitivity (98%) and specificity (78%). The DCDQ applied on Serbian children has a potential to be a reliable and valid instrument for screening children with coordination problems.

The paper investigates the problems of inclusive education from the perspective of scientific research and with an intention to point to the most pressing problems of inclusive education in Serbia from the researchers' perspective. The analysis encompassed 135 papers focused on different problems related to the research of the inclusive theory and practice and published in the pedagogical literature in the last 10 years. Two units of analysis have been selected: theoretical and problem approach to studying and researching, as well as the methodological approach to the research of inclusive education. The results indicate that, during the first decade after inclusive education had been introduced in Serbia, the authors were dealing mostly with the problems of critical consideration of the conceptual discourse and practice of inclusive education, and very little with the effects of inclusive education. It has been established that empirical papers take prevalence over theoretical ones, while descriptive and survey methods were applied most commonly. The research was carried out using mostly the one-sample technique and instruments and no participatory research was conducted. The pedagogical implications refer to the need for a more objective research of the effects of inclusion, given the ten-year period of implementation, and that the research approaches should include all inclusive education actors through participatory and qualitative research in order to offer the guidelines to the creators of the educational reform and its participants in terms of further improvement of the idea and practice of inclusive education.

Various advantages and disadvantages of homework are discussed in the literature. The aim of this paper is to determine the advantages and disadvantages of homework practices in Serbian Language taught in junior grades of primary education. Implementation practices were examined from the standpoint of teachers with the aim of determining: the dynamics in assigning and reviewing homework; assessment methods and ways of communicating feedback; representation of different types of homework; and the evaluation of their contribution. The study was conducted in 2020 and 2021 on a sample of 123 teachers. The obtained results indicate that the homework practices in Serbian Language classes are characterized by the frequency and diversity of homework assignments, individualized approach, reviewing regularity, and positive perception of their contribution. However, the results also raise several important questions-excessive student workload, functionality of assessing homework as a learning tool, homework assessments, encouraging cooperative homework and communication related to it-and indicate the need for further research.

Uvođenje inkluzivnog obrazovanja (IO) predstavlja veliki izazov1 Rad je proistekao iz projekata Kreiranje Protokola za procenu edukativnih potencijala dece sa smetnjama u razvoju kao kriterijuma za izradu individualnih obrazovnih programa (179025) i Socijalna participacija osoba sa intelektualnom ometenošću (179017) koje finansira Ministarstvo prosvete, nauke i tehnološkog razvoja Republike Srbije.2