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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Characteristics of Students at Risk for Mathematics Difficulties Predicting Arithmetic Word Problem Solving Performance: The Role of Attention, Behavior, and Reading
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Corroy, Kelly Cozine; Dupuis, Danielle N. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The purposes of this study were (a) to evaluate differences in arithmetic word problem solving between high and low at-risk students for mathematics difficulties (MD) and (b) to assess the influence of attention, behavior, reading, and socio-economic status (SES) in predicting the word problem solving performance of third-grade students with MD.…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Skills
Effect of Neuroscience-Based Cognitive Skill Training on Growth of Cognitive Deficits Associated with Learning Disabilities in Children Grades 2-4
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Avtzon, Sarah Abitbol – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Working memory, executive functions, and cognitive processes associated with specific academic areas, are empirically identified as being the core underlying cognitive deficits in students with specific learning disabilities. Using Hebb's theory of neuroplasticity and the principle of automaticity as theoretical bases, this experimental study…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning Disabilities, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Defining Learning Disability: Does IQ Have Anything Significant to Say?
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Dunn, Michael W. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
A debate exists in the research community about replacing the traditional IQ/achievement discrepancy method for learning disability identification with a "response-to-intervention model". This new assessment paradigm uses a student's level of improvement with small-group or individual programming to determine a possible need for classification and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Reading Failure, Disability Identification
The Effects of Instructional Consistency: Using Manipulatives and Teaching Strategies to Support Resource Room Mathematics Instruction
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Smith, Lisa F.; Montani, Teresa Oettinger – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
The benefits of multisensory instruction for teaching mathematics to students in resource rooms were explored. Participants were third and fourth graders (n = 12) in 3 resource rooms for replacement mathematics in a middle-class school district in New Jersey. The students received weekly instruction for several months, using manipulatives and word…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 4
The Relationship between Nonword Spelling Abilities of K-3 Teachers and Student Spelling Outcomes
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Kroese, Judith M.; Mather, Nancy; Sammons, Janice – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
"We cannot allow the quality of special services to preclude conquering reading disabilities (Horne, 1978, p. 582)." This study was conducted to explore how teachers' spelling abilities relate to student outcomes. The results indicated that the students enrolled in classrooms where the teachers had the lowest knowledge of phoneme-grapheme…
Descriptors: Spelling, Teacher Characteristics, Phonemes, Graphemes
Improving Students with Learning Disabilities Ability to Acquire and Generalize a Vocabulary Learning Strategy
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Spencer, Sue; Logan, Kent – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2005
This study examined the effects of providing explicit metacognitive instruction prior to cognitive strategy instruction on students' with learning disabilities ability to generalize a vocabulary strategy learned in a special education setting to a general education setting. The subjects were eight elementary school students with learning…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Grade 3, Grade 4