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Classroom Behavior, Contexts, and Interventions. Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities. Volume 25
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Cook, Bryan G., Ed.; Tankersley, Melody, Ed.; Landrum, Timothy J., Ed.; Scruggs, Thomas E., Ed.; Mastropieri, Margo A., Ed. – Advances in Learning and Behavioral Disabilities, 2012
The focus of this volume is to identify and review issues and outcomes associated with behavioral concerns of students with learning and behavioral disabilities. Students must navigate a number of environmental conditions, task demands, and social interactions with peers and adults throughout the school day. To be successful, they must employ a…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Learning Disabilities, Behavior Disorders, Students with Disabilities
Self-Talk: Strategies for Success in Math.
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Corral, Nadine; Antia, Shirin D. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Discusses turning the mathematics failure cycle of students with learning disabilities into a success cycle by using learning strategies and positive attributions. Identifies eight steps to success with learning strategies are as well as six steps to positive attribution in math. The attribution theory is also explained. (CR)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
The Dialogue Page: Teacher and Student Dialogues To Improve Learning Motivation.
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Kozminsky, Ely; Kozminsky, Lea – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2002
This article demonstrates how to improve students' learning motivation by means of an attributional dialogue between teachers and students. Students are asked to describe events and to explain to what they attributed success or failure. Dialogue pages of a typically achieving learner and a student with learning disabilities are provided. (Contains…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Dialog Journals, Elementary Secondary Education, Journal Writing
Making Writing Strategies Work.
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Stevens, Dannelle D.; Englert, Carol Sue – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
This article proposes that teachers of students with learning disabilities combine instruction in writing strategies with training in strategy attribution, whereby students learn to attribute their success or failure to use or nonuse of a particular writing strategy. Specific strategies are offered for writing subprocesses and steps in linking…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Training Positive Attitudes: "I Tried Hard and Did Well!"
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Fulk, Barbara J. Mushinski; Mastropieri, Margo A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1990
The article describes an instructional intervention appropriate to improving student attitudes and achievement through attributional retraining and instruction in learning strategies, particularly mnemonic strategies. Application of the approach with learning-disabled students in reading comprehension and mathematics is reported. (DB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cognitive Restructuring, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Development
Attribution Instruction.
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Dohrn, Elizabeth; Bryan, Tanis – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1994
Students with learning disabilities tend to hold an external locus of control for success but an internal locus of control for failure. Attribution feedback, combined with particular task strategies, can lead children to persist longer, acquire adaptive attributions, and make greater academic achievement gains. Attribution instruction can be…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attribution Theory, Behavior Change, Elementary Secondary Education