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Gelzheiser, Lynn M.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1987
The performance of 60 learning disabled and normally achieving children (ages 9-12), either given minimal instruction to use organizing strategies or engaged only in practice with a free recall task, were compared. Factors underlying the unexpected finding that strategy use did not account for learning disabled students' poor recall are discussed.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Metacognition
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McDaniel, Mark A.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The article examines whether the material-appropriate processing approach can anticipate and explain the mnemonic effects of elaborative encoding tasks and study adjuncts for less able learners. Evidence suggests that less able learners are not capable of spontaneously exploiting the affordances of the to-be-learned material without appropriate…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Memory
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Scruggs, Thomas E.; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
This article describes the concept and varieties of mnemonic instruction and how mnemonics interacts with the specific learning characteristics of learning-disabled students. The effectiveness of the techniques, as reported in research studies, is described. Implications for classroom instruction and further research are provided. (DB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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Chan, Lorna K. S.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The study, involving 39 intermediate-grade disabled readers, found that visualization instruction plus pictorial display, in which subjects were instructed to make pictures in their minds and were shown a pictorial display that illustrated the temporal-spatial sequence of the reading text, was particularly effective in facilitating subjects'…
Descriptors: Imagery, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies
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Englert, Carol Sue; Mariage, Troy V. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
This article reports on a reading comprehension instructional technique which uses reciprocal-like teaching formats in groups and semantic mapping to make text structures apparent. The procedure significantly affected recall of expository ideas and knowledge of comprehension strategies with 28 intermediate grade students with learning…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
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Wiig, Elisabeth H. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The paper describes and advocates process-oriented rather than product-oriented approaches to language intervention for students with language-learning disabilities. The paper discusses the need for different reasoning strategies in language intervention, a "levels of competence" macromodel for language intervention, a process-oriented micromodel,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Language Acquisition
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Bos, Candace S.; Anders, Patricia L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1990
The study, involving 61 learning-disabled junior high students, compared the short-term and long-term effectiveness of definition instruction with interactive vocabulary strategies (semantic mapping, semantic feature analysis, and semantic/syntactic feature analysis). Students participating in the interactive strategies demonstrated greater…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Interaction, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
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Pressley, Michael; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
This interview study examined the perceptions and beliefs about cognitive strategy instruction of 31 classroom teachers of underachieving students and 9 strategy researchers. Teachers and researchers generally agreed about components of strategy instruction and when to teach them; one difference was the tendency of researchers to relegate each…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Course Content, Educational Researchers, Elementary Secondary Education
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Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
This review of the University of Maryland's research program in written language indicates that the writing difficulties of students with learning disabilities stem, in part, from problems with basic text production skills, scant knowledge about writing, and difficulties with planning and revising text. The effectiveness of various instructional…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
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Mastropieri, Margo A.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1997
Over a six-week period, students (N=19) with learning disabilities in an inner-city middle school were taught the chronological order of the U.S. presidents. Half the time a modified mnemonic keyword-pegword strategy was used and the other half rehearsal and representational pictures. Delayed posttesting revealed a significant main effect for…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Memorization