Attempts to strengthen regular-special educator interactions are often based upon suspected experiential rather than personal differences. Rokeach's Value Survey (1973) was used to investigate possible differences in the life-values of teacher groups. The value systems of regular and special educators in the present study depicted a single population of individuals composed of two subgroups. The prioritization of individual values within the value system hierarchy was similar for both groups of teachers. However, 10 terminal values and 8 instrumental values received sufficiently different responses to permit the prediction of teacher group with 71% accuracy.
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