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50 Years of ERIC
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Enhancing Student Achievement on Performance Assessments in Mathematics.
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Woodward, John; Monroe, Kara; Baxter, Juliet – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001
A study examined the combined effects of class wide instruction on performance assessment tasks and problem solving instruction in ad hoc tutoring in mathematics on six students with learning disabilities. The two interventions led to demonstrable differences over time when compared to students who did not receive this kind of instruction.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction
Stability of Social Status of Children with and without Learning Disabilities.
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Kuhne, Michael; Wiener, Judith – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2000
The stability of peer status of children (ages 9 to 12) with (N=38) and without learning disabilities (LD) was examined through sociometric measures twice in the same school year. Although test-retest reliability was good, children with LD were likely to lose peer status and be seen by peers in less favorable terms at Time 2 than Time 1. (Contains…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship
Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Sociolinguistic Examination of Meaning-Making in "Sharing Chair".
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Mariage, Troy V. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2000
This article describes implementation of a Sharing Chair as part of literacy program in a third and fourth grade special education learning disabilities class. Following free writing in their personal journals, students could share and receive feedback from a peer/teacher audience. The article presents results of analysis of videotape recordings…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Education, Feedback, Intermediate Grades
Imagery and Fractions in Students Classified as Learning Disabled.
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Grobecker, Betsey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2000
This article describes constructivist principles of learning in geometry specific to children's imaginal anticipations in line measurement and fractions. Application with seven sixth grade students with learning disabilities found that students had difficulty coordinating and imagining second-order and higher nested relationships that could be…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Constructivism (Learning), Fractions, Grade 6
Free Recall as a Test of Reading Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Carlisle, Joanne F. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
This study compared 19 students with learning disabilities (LD) in grades 6 and 8 with their nondisabled peers on the free recall of science passages when differences in passage understanding and domain vocabulary were controlled. Results suggested that the poorer performance of LD students might be the result of the inability to understand and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Word Prediction for Students with Severe Spelling Problems.
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MacArthur, Charles A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Two studies compared handwriting, word processing, and word prediction with speech-synthesis software (PR) with three intermediate-grade students with severe spelling problems. Results suggested that PR software can improve the writing of such students under certain circumstances but that constraints, such as the difficulty of using the software,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education, Handwriting
Tutorial Interventions for Writing Disabilities: Comparison of Transcription and Text Generation Processes.
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Brooks, Allison; Vaughan, Katherine; Berninger, Virginia – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Seventeen fourth and fifth graders with severe writing disabilities received a weekly one-hour individual tutorial which focused equally on transcription (handwriting and spelling) and composition skills. Students showed reliable improvement in composition and handwriting automaticity but not in spelling. Suggestions for teaching phonological…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Handwriting, Individualized Instruction
A Process Approach To Remediating Word-Decoding Deficiencies in Chapter 1 Children.
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Carlson, Jerry S.; Das, J. P. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Two studies evaluated the Process-Based Reading Enhancement Program (PREP) with 150 grade 4 economically disadvantaged children. Pre- and posttesting with the Word Attack and Word Identification subtests of the Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests-Revised found significant group-by-time interactions. Results support the efficacy of the PREP to improve…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 4
Transfer from Word Training to Reading in Context: Gains in Reading Fluency and Comprehension.
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Levy, Betty Ann; Abello, Brent; Lysynchuk, Linda – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Two studies with poor readers in grade 4 (total N=68) examined the relationship between word identification speed and story reading fluency. Benefits were found for single-word practice prior to reading stories containing those words, even for children who were particularly poor namers. Results are related to theoretical links between fluency and…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Grade 4, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Strategy Instruction in Planning: Teaching Students with Learning and Writing Disabilities To Compose Persuasive and Expository Essays.
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De La Paz, Susan – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Two studies of intermediate grade students with and without learning and writing disabilities evaluated the Self-Regulated Strategy Development model in teaching students how to plan persuasive essays before and during composing. Instructional effects were investigated using different research designs, in different settings, and with different…
Descriptors: Essays, Intermediate Grades, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Using Teacher-Guided Practice To Help Students with Learning Disabilities Acquire and Retain Social Studies Content.
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Hudson, Pamela – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Sixth and seventh grade students (n=18) with mild to moderate learning disabilities (LD) were taught social studies by using instructional sequence techniques. Results found LD students performed significantly better when these techniques (breaking new material into small units of information and providing frequent student practice and teacher…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Educational Principles, Feedback, Instructional Effectiveness
The Effects of Prior Knowledge and Schema Activation Strategies on the Inferential Reading Comprehension of Children with and without Learning Disabilities.
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Carr, Sonya C.; Thompson, Bruce – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
This study, with 48 students (including 16 eighth graders with learning disabilities (LD), 16 age level peers, and 16 reading level peers), found that all groups, but especially LD students, benefited from experimenter activation of prior knowledge on reading comprehension tasks testing inferential reading ability. Experimenter activation of prior…
Descriptors: Inferences, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Level
The Effects of a Cognitive Mapping Strategy on the Literal and Inferential Comprehension of Students with Mild Disabilities.
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Boyle, Joseph R. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Fifteen middle school students with mild disabilities and poor reading comprehension were taught to independently create cognitive maps from reading passages. Comparison with a matched control group indicated that students who were taught the cognitive mapping strategy demonstrated substantial gains in both literal and inferential comprehension…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Self-Concept and Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities: A Comparison of Scholastic Competence Subgroups.
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Hagborg, Winston J. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Comparison of middle-school-age students with learning disabilities, grouped according to their self-reported ratings of scholastic competence, found significant differences between the low subgroup and the medium/high subgroups on internal locus of control for positive events, school attitudes, and global self-worth. Subgroups did not differ in…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Intelligence, Intermediate Grades
The Impact of Positive Mood on Learning.
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Bryan, Tanis; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1996
Sixty middle school students, half average-achieving and half with learning disabilities (LD), were assigned to either a positive or neutral mood induction condition prior to receiving instruction in elementary Hindi language (to control for effects of prior knowledge). Across a two-week period, the LD students in the positive condition performed…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Emotional Experience, Hindi, Intermediate Grades
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