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Peer reviewedBaechle, Cathy L.; Ming-Gon, John Lian – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
This study of 52 learning-disabled children, aged 8-13, found that direct feedback and practice improved metaphor interpretation. The approach was highly successful in teaching students to generalize concrete concepts to abstract ones. Further descriptive analyses indicated that grade and reading levels of subjects correlated with metaphor…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Feedback
Peer reviewedWood, Dorothy Ann; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This study, involving 9 students (ages 8-11) with learning disabilities, found that 1 session of self-instruction training was not sufficiently powerful for students to learn a strategy for solving arithmetic problems, but a second session and access to tape-recorded cues resulted in improved performance. Effects did not generalize to student…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Audiotape Recordings, Autoinstructional Aids, Cues
