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Ennis, Robin Parks; Jolivette, Kristine; Losinski, Mickey – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
In this study, we investigated the effects of choice of writing prompt on the number of story elements included in written narratives. The investigation took place in a residential facility for students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Participants included six female students in a mixed-grade-level course (students had just completed…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Prompting, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
Grünke, Matthias; Janning, Andriana Maria; Sperling, Marko – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2016
The purpose of this single-case study was to evaluate the effects of a peer-tutoring intervention on the text production skills of three third graders with severe learning and speech difficulties. All tutees were initially able to produce only very short stories. During the course of the treatment, higher performing classmates taught them how to…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Grade 3
Songkhao, Rujira – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study investigated the writing results from an existing data set of 36 students who performed braille writing dictation through the repeated writing activity in the braille writing app. The data was the writing results of students between the first and the sixth grade levels. Results were categorized into types of errors, the most common…
Descriptors: Blindness, Visual Impairments, Braille, Writing Assignments
Menz, Petra; Xin, Cindy – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2016
Metacognition directly contributes to learning, performance, and beliefs about the self as a learner. This paper describes the rationale, implementation, and assessment of a weekly online reflection activity based on instructor prompts designed for post-secondary students who aspire to be elementary school teachers. Our study defines four…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Content Area Writing, Mathematics Education, Reflection
Pennington, Robert; Koehler, Mallory – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
There is limited research on teaching narrative writing skills to students with moderate to severe intellectual disability. In the current study, we used a multiple probe across participants single case design to evaluate the effects of an intervention package comprised of modeling, story templates, and self-graphing, on the inclusion of story…
Descriptors: Moderate Intellectual Disability, Modeling (Psychology), Story Telling, Intervention
Heath, Vickie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study explored if significant differences exist between how fifth-grade students produce a written response to a narrative prompt using online versus offline writing platforms. The cultural and social trend of instructional and assessment writing paradigms in education is shifting to online writing platforms (National Assessment…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Writing Skills, Grade 5, Prompting
McCutchen, Deborah; Stull, Sara; Herrera, Becky Logan; Lotas, Sasha; Evans, Sarah – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
This quasi-experimental study examined effects of a 12-week, teacher-delivered, morphologically focused intervention on writing outcomes for fifth-grade U.S. students. In order to help students gain control over the morphologically complex words that typify academic writing, the intervention called students' attention to the morphological…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Benedek-Wood, Elizabeth; Mason, Linda H.; Wood, Philip H.; Hoffman, Katie E.; McGuire, Ashley – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2014
A staggered A-B design study was used to evaluate the effects of Self- Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) instruction for quick writing in middle school science across four classrooms. A sixth-grade science teacher delivered all students' writing assessment and SRSD instruction for informative quick writing. Results indicated that performance…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Science, Science Instruction, Writing (Composition)
Gillies, Ann – International Research in Early Childhood Education, 2013
This qualitative study describes the experience of a cross-age tutoring intervention for three PreKindergarten/Kindergarten-aged students with autism and their fourth grade general education tutors. Data were collected in an inclusive environment; the school library. Three fourth grade general education cross-age tutors were trained to use a…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Tutoring, Autism, Kindergarten
Ennis, Robin Parks; Jolivette, Kristine; Boden, Lauren J. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2013
Self-regulated strategy development is an evidence-based practice for use
with students with emotional and behavioral disorders (E/BD). This study
adds to the current research base by conducting the first investigation in a
residential facility for students with E/BD and the first classwide investigation
at the elementary level with students with…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Children, Residential Programs
Clidas, Jeanne – Science and Children, 2010
Students are using the tools of scientists when keeping a science notebook. They are also keeping track of their thinking and the changes to their original ideas. To bring students' existing ideas out for examination, the author implemented a "quick-write," which entails asking an open-ended question and having the students write all they know in…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Science Instruction, Writing Assignments, Cooperative Learning
Legutko, Robert S.; Trissler, Theodore T. – Current Issues in Education, 2012
This study investigated effects of background music on writing performance of nine 6th grade students with learning disabilities at one suburban public elementary school in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. A single-subject A-B-A design was utilized, and results from graded writing prompts with and without background music over 21…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Music, Learning Disabilities, Writing Ability
Parker, David C.; McMaster, Kristen L.; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Review, 2011
The instructional level is helpful when identifying an intervention for math or reading, but researchers have yet to investigate whether the instructional-level concept can be applied to early writing. The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend previous research by examining technical features of potential instructional-level criteria…
Descriptors: Sentences, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments, Teaching Methods
McMaster, Kristen L.; Du, Xiaoqing; Yeo, Seungsoo; Deno, Stanley L.; Parker, David; Ellis, Troy – Exceptional Children, 2011
This study examined technical features of slopes produced from curriculum-based measures (CBM) of beginning writing. Eighty-five first-graders completed weekly sentence copy, picture-word, and story prompts for 12 weeks. After 12 weeks, testing revealed alternate-form reliability and criterion validity of CBM scores generally similar to those…
Descriptors: Beginning Writing, Curriculum Based Assessment, Validity, Reliability
Attali, Yigal; Powers, Don – ETS Research Report Series, 2008
This report describes the development of grade norms for timed-writing performance in two modes of writing: persuasive and descriptive. These norms are based on objective and automatically computed measures of writing quality in grammar, usage, mechanics, style, vocabulary, organization, and development. These measures are also used in the…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 6, Grade 8, Grade 10