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Direct linkMayes, Susan Dickerson; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Calhoun, Susan L.; Mattison, Richard E. – Exceptionality, 2020
Little is known about the characteristics of academic overachievers, children whose achievement significantly exceeds IQ. Correlates of overachievement (achievement test scores = 1 SD above IQ), nondiscrepant achievement, and learning disability (LD; achievement = 1 SD below IQ) were analyzed in 1,543 children (739 ADHD, 285 autism, and 519…
Descriptors: Overachievement, Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism
Swanson, H. Lee; Hsieh, Ching-Ju – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This article synthesizes the experimental literature that compares the academic, cognitive, and behavioral performance of adults with reading disabilities to those of average-achieving adult readers. The central question posed by this review is to what extent and in what manner do adults with reading disabilities differ from adults without reading…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Learning Disabilities, Intelligence Quotient
Peer reviewedPrasse, David P.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
Findings revealed that 63 learning disabled students scored significantly lower than 30 regular education students (both groups 6-15 years old) on all reading measures. Existing differences in the reading ability level between the two groups did not solely account for the obtained difference in reading achievement. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Reading Tests
Download full textGillespie, Jacquelyn; Shohet, Jacqueline – 1972
The Diagnostic Spelling Test is an experimental modification of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT), Spelling (Level II), which measures a student's ability to identify the correct spelling of each word in a four-alternative multiple-choice format. Each incorrect alternative is designed to reflect a specific type of spelling problem found in…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Learning Disabilities, Reading Achievement, Reading Research
Peer reviewedLeinhardt, Gaea; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1981
Reading instruction and its effects were examined for 105 students in elementary classrooms for the learning disabled. Extensive detailed observations of students, teachers, and instructional material were used to explore the plausibility of a causal model of the effects of reading behaviors and instruction on students' reading performance.…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Instructional Improvement
McBeath, Marcia; Marken, Dan – 1977
Local norms for the three scores of the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT)--reading, spelling, and arithmetic--were developed on the basis of 1,021 children in the age range of 5 through 7 and 83 more children aged 8 through 11 from a suburban school district near Seattle, Washington. In general, the local group was found to be superior to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Grade Placement, Arithmetic, Elementary Education
Walthall, Joe; Smith, Terry – 1990
This study investigated the relationship between measured intelligence and discrepancies existing between actual achievement levels and projected achievement levels in mildly handicapped resource room students in Arkansas. Twenty-seven students had been identified as learning disabled and 19 as mildly mentally retarded. Subjects each received…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Handicap Identification
