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Direct linkRafdal, Brooke H.; McMaster, Kristen L.; McConnell, Scott R.; Fuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study determined the effectiveness of Kindergarten Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (K-PALS) for students with disabilities. The researchers randomly assigned 89 kindergartners with individualized education programs (IEPs) from 47 classrooms to control (n = 9); K-PALS Level 1 (teachers received 1-day workshop; n = 19); or K-PALS Level 2…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Oral Reading, Beginning Reading, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedCalhoon, Mary Beth; Fuchs, Lynn S. – Remedial and Special Education, 2003
A study examined effects of peer-assisted learning strategies (PALS) and curriculum-based measurement (CBM) on the mathematics performance of 92 secondary students with disabilities. PALS/CBM was implemented twice weekly and CBM weekly for 15 weeks. PALS/CBM students improved their computation math skills significantly more than controls, but not…
Descriptors: Computation, Curriculum Based Assessment, Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness
Stecker, Pamela M.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
This review examines the efficacy of curriculum-based measurement (CBM) as an assessment methodology for enhancing student achievement. We describe experimental-contrast studies in reading and mathematics in which teachers used CBM to monitor student progress and to make instructional decisions. Overall, teachers' use of CBM produced significant…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Skill Analysis, Learning Strategies, Curriculum Based Assessment
Peer reviewedFuchs, Lynn S.; Fuchs, Douglas; Karns, Kathy – Elementary School Journal, 2001
Examined the effects of a dyadic peer-mediated treatment on kindergarten children's mathematics development. Found that treatment implementation was strong for most teachers; teachers judged the treatment to be effective and feasible for implementation on their own; and students with and without disabilities, at all points along the achievement…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedFuchs, Douglas; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Al Otaiba, Stephanie; Thompson, Anneke; Yen, Loulee; McMaster, Kristen N.; Svenson, Ebba; Yang, Nancy J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2001
This article describes a teacher-researcher collaboration, "Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies for Kindergartens," or K-PALS, which was the reading readiness program produced by the partnership. The development of K-PALS is discussed, along with research showing that it promotes young children's reading development and fits easily into classrooms.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Kindergarten, Kindergarten Children
