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ERIC Number: EJ551432
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1997
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ISSN: ISSN-0002-8312
Effects of Task-Focused Goals on Low-Achieving Students with and without Learning Disabilities.
Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Karns, Kathy; Hamlett, Carol L.; Katzaroff, Michelle; Dutka, Suzanne
American Educational Research Journal, v34 n3 p513-43 Fall 1997
The effects of a task-focused goals (TFG) treatment in mathematics were studied with low-achieving students with or without learning disabilities. Results with 40 elementary classrooms showed that TFG students enjoyed the approach, but that increased effort was associated with greater learning only for those without learning disabilities. (SLD)
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Low Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Primary Education, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Effort; Task Orientation
Note: Research supported in part by Grant No. H180E20004 from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs, and Core Grant No. HD15052 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to Vanderbilt University.