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Dropouts with Learning Disabilities: What Happens to Them as Young Adults?
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Sitlington, Patricia L.; Frank, Alan R. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
The adult adjustment of 101 dropouts with learning disabilities (LD), whose graduating class had been out of school for 1 year, was investigated in terms of employment rate, occupational status, hours worked, wages, and benefits; vocational training, postsecondary education, and usefulness of high school; instructional model used; gender; and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Dropouts, Employment, Followup Studies
Instructional Components That Predict Treatment Outcomes for Students with Learning Disabilities: Support for a Combined Strategy and Direct Instruction Model.
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Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
Review of 180 intervention studies identified instructional components that best predicted effect sizes for students with learning disabilities. These included sequencing, drill-repetition-practice feedback, segmentation of information, technology (structure-presentation medium), controlling task difficulty (e.g., scaffolding), modeling…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Effect Size, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness