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Response to Varying Amounts of Time in Reading Intervention for Students with Low Response to Intervention
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Jeanne Wanzek; Sharon Vaughn – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
Two studies examined response to varying amounts of time in reading intervention for two cohorts of first-grade students demonstrating low levels of reading after previous intervention. Students were assigned to one of three groups that received (a) a single dose of intervention, (b) a double dose of intervention, or (c) no intervention.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Student Reaction, Acceleration (Education)
Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities To Solve Word Problems Using a Schema-Based Approach.
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Jitendra, Asha K.; Hoff, Kathryn; Beck, Michelle M. – Remedial and Special Education, 1999
This study investigated the effectiveness of a schema strategy on the mathematical word-problem-solving performance of four sixth- and seventh-grade students with learning disabilities. The schema strategy led to substantially improved word-problem-solving performance for all four students and these results were maintained at two- and four-week…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Mathematics Instruction, Middle Schools
Direct Instruction in Math Word Problems: Students with Learning Disabilities.
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Cynthia L. Wilson; Paul T. Sindelar – Exceptional Children, 1991
This study compared the effectiveness of 3 procedures for teaching 62 elementary students with learning disabilities to identify the correct algorithm in solving addition and subtraction word problems. The group receiving strategy teaching and sequencing practice problems and the group receiving strategy teaching only scored higher than…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction
Effects of a Reciprocal Peer Revision Strategy in Special Education Classrooms.
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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Intermediate grade students with learning disabilities learned to work in pairs to help each other with editing and revising of their compositions. The 13 subjects made more revisions and produced papers of higher quality when revising with peer support than did 16 students in a process-approach control group. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Peer Tutoring in Arithmetic for Children with Learning Disabilities.
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Beirne-Smith, Mary – Exceptional Children, 1991
Twenty primary-aged students with learning disabilities were tutored by nondisabled students in grades 3-6. Tutored students' performance on single-digit addition facts improved compared to a no-treatment control group. There were no significant differences between two tutoring procedures: a counting-on approach and a rote-memorization approach.…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Improving Learning Disabled Students' Skills at Composing Essays: Self-Instructional Strategy Training.
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Graham, Steve; Harris, Karen R. – Exceptional Children, 1989
The study with three sixth-grade learning-disabled students found that a self-instructional strategy to facilitate the generation, framing, and planning of argumentative essays had a positive effect on the students' writing performance and self-efficacy. Effects were maintained over time and transferred to a new setting and new writing genre.…
Descriptors: Essays, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Improving the Compositions of Students with Learning Disabilities Using a Strategy Involving Product and Process Goal Setting.
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Graham, Steve; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1992
Four fifth grade students with learning disabilities were taught a strategy to facilitate setting product and process goals, generating and organizing notes, continued planning during writing, and evaluating goal attainment. Strategy instruction had a positive effect on students' essay writing and knowledge of the writing process, and effects were…
Descriptors: Essays, Goal Orientation, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades