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A Reading Motivation Intervention with Differential Outcomes for Students at Risk for Reading Disabilities, ADHD, and Typical Comparisons: "Clever Is and Clever Does"
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Zentall, Sydney S.; Lee, Jiyeon – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2012
Past research has failed to recognize motivation for its potential to produce instructional gains, especially for students with reading disabilities/difficulties (RD). To this purpose, a combined motivational intervention was administered to 80 second-grade through fifth-grade students in a randomized pretest-posttest control group design with…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Intervention, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Control Groups
Fact-Retrieval Automatization and Math Problem Solving by Learning Disabled, Attention-Disordered, and Normal Adolescents.
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Zentall, Sydney S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Fifteen learning-disabled (LD), 33 attention disordered (AD), and 28 normal adolescents were assessed with 2 performance measures and 3 behavioral measures while working on mathematics problems. Findings support theoretical predictions that LD and AD children have difficulty with repetitive stimuli, contributing to mathematics deficits. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Deficit Disorders, Comparative Analysis, Control Groups