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Download full textGottfried, Michael A.; Plasman, Jay; Freeman, Jennifer A.; Dougherty, Shaun – AERA Open, 2021
Increasing and improving the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) educational pipeline has been a point of emphasis for decades, and federal policy in the United States has urged high schools to embed new types of STEM courses into the curriculum. As one example, applied STEM courses--one growing branch within career and…
Descriptors: Course Selection (Students), STEM Education, Vocational Education, Enrollment
Direct linkLocquiao, Jed; Abernathy, Tammy V.; Mesina, Olga L.; Liu, Leping – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2021
Abundant empirical research points to a significant number of students not going to school across the United States. Further yet, there exists strong research consensus that absenteeism predicts negative and persistent academic outcomes for students. LEAs and related stakeholders have rightly adopted measurement and intervention on student…
Descriptors: Attendance, Students with Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Grade 3
Hawkins, Donnita – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Over the last 37 years, the Individualized Education Program (IEP) has been the guiding document that outlines the needs of a student who receives special education services. Washington State utilizes an IEP Review form as the means to determine if an IEP has been properly written and formulated. This information partially fulfills the Federal…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement
Estrada, Karla V. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
As the population of English Language Learners (ELLs) continues to grow in schools, so does the concern for their lack of academic progress and the possible inequitable representation of this culturally and linguistically diverse population in special education (Artiles, Rueda, Salazar, & Higareda, 2005; Guiberson, 2009; Mac Swan &…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Language Acquisition, Learning Disabilities, Mixed Methods Research
Meglemre, Jennifer Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Students with learning disabilities are entering postsecondary education in larger numbers, yet many lacks the self-advocacy skills needed to access services available to them. Explicit instruction in self-advocacy must begin in time for students to practice these skills before leaving high school. Currently, too many students with learning…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, Learning Disabilities, Self Advocacy, Grade 8
Phillips, Deidre Marshall – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Black students, in general, are underserved academically (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Townsend, 2002) and overrepresented in special education (Donovan & Cross, 2002). Black students with disabilities are further overrepresented in more restrictive educational environments (Skiba, Poloni-Staudinger, Gallini, Simmons & Feggins-Azziz, 2006).…
Descriptors: African American Students, Student Placement, Learning Disabilities, Urban Schools
Jenkins, Joseph R.; Graff, J. Jason; Miglioretti, Diana L. – Exceptional Children, 2009
This study addressed three basic questions involving the amount of measurement needed to obtain valid estimates of reading growth. Participants were 41 students with learning disabilities from Grades 3 to 8, monitored across 10 weeks using curriculum-based measurement (CBM) of words read correctly (WRC). We compared growth slopes based on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Learning Disabilities, Achievement Gains, Reading Achievement
Curcic, Svjetlana; Johnstone, Robin S. – Computers in the Schools, 2016
This study examined the effects of an intervention in writing with digital interactive books. To improve the writing skills of seventh- and eighth-grade students with a learning disability in reading, we conducted a quasi-experimental study in which the students read interactive digital books (i-books), took notes, wrote summaries, and acted as…
Descriptors: Intervention, Writing Skills, Learning Disabilities, Cartoons
