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Peer reviewedStevens, Robert J.; Slavin, Robert E. – Exceptional Children, 1991
This response to an article by Karen Tateyama-Sniezek (EC 230 117), which examined the effectiveness of cooperative learning with mildly disabled students, reconsiders a table by adding more comparison statistics, effect sizes, and standard individual measures of achievement. Noted are the scarcity of studies including individual accountability…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Peer reviewedBryan, Tanis – Exceptional Children, 1999
The author, the 1996 winner of the Council for Exceptional Children Research Award, reviews trends in research and changes in special education over the past 25 years. Emphasis is on the continued need for research on learning disabilities and ways to ensure that research findings are translated into practice. (DB)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Trends, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedSamuels, S. Jay – Exceptional Children, 1987
The article examines reasons for discrepant findings in two studies of attention differences in learning disabled students, focusing on four interacting factors in experimental research: task, materials, context, and subject characteristics. It is suggested that attentional deficits are not necessarily the underlying problem for all students with…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Cognitive Processes, Data Interpretation, Exceptional Child Research
