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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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Gann, Candace J.; Ferro, Jolenea B.; Umbreit, John; Liaupsin, Carl J. – Remedial and Special Education, 2014
This study examined the feasibility and effectiveness of a comprehensive function-based intervention applied across multiple inclusive classroom settings. The participant was a middle school student diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome who exhibited chronic off-task behaviors across all academic environments. This study was conducted across two…
Descriptors: Intervention, Asperger Syndrome, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Disabilities
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Reed, Deborah K.; Sturges, Keith M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2013
Researchers have expressed concern about "implementation" fidelity in intervention research but have not extended that concern to "assessment" fidelity, or the extent to which pre-/posttests are administered and interpreted as intended. When studying reading interventions, data gathering heavily influences the identification of…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Fidelity, Pretests Posttests, Intervention
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Bouck, Emily C.; Kulkarni, Gauri; Johnson, Linley – Remedial and Special Education, 2011
This study investigated the impact of mathematics curriculum (standards based vs. traditional) on the performance of sixth and seventh grade students with disabilities on multiple-choice and open-ended assessments aligned to one state's number and operations and algebra standards. It also sought to understand factors affecting student performance…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Student Evaluation, Disabilities, Program Effectiveness
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Corcos, Evelyne; Willows, Dale M. – Remedial and Special Education, 2009
To evaluate whether performance differences between good and poor readers relate to reading-specific cognitive factors that result from engaging in reading activities and other experiential factors, the authors gave students in Grades 4 and 6 a perceptual identification test of words not only drawn from their personal lexicon but also varying in…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Language Processing, Familiarity, Reading
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Hagaman, Jessica L.; Reid, Robert – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
Reading is an important component of academic success and a skill required for many adult responsibilities. Many strategies exist that claim to increase reading comprehension. However, in contrast to foundational reading skills (e.g., vocabulary, fluency, decoding), there is relatively little research that has been done on reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Grade 6, Educational Strategies, High Risk Students
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Foegen, Anne – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
This study investigated the technical features of six potential progress-monitoring measures in mathematics appropriate for use at the middle school level, including two commercially available measures for sixth-grade mathematics, two measures used in previous middle school studies, and two new measures of numeracy concepts. Five hundred…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Standardized Tests, Predictive Validity, Scores