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Comparisons of Learning Ease and Transfer Propensity in Poor and Average Readers.
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Day, Jeanne D.; Zajakowski, Amy – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
Assisted and unassisted performance of 14 average readers and 14 readers with learning disabilities (ages 10-13) were compared on a reading comprehension task. The groups differed in how easily they learned to find the main idea under different topic sentence placement conditions, with the learning-disabled readers requiring significantly more…
Descriptors: Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Performance Factors
Verbal Performance of Learning Disabled Children as a Function of Input Organization
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Freston, Cyrus W.; Drew, Clifford J. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1974
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Interaction of Locus-of-Control Orientation and the Performance of Learning Disabled Adolescents.
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Bendell, Debra – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1980
Results showed that the adolescents with internal locus of control performed significantly better in the low structure reinforcement condition, while the adolescents with external locus of control performed significantly better in the high structure reinforcement condition. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Factors That Influence Phoneme-Grapheme Correspondence Learning.
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Mauer, Daria M.; Kamhi, Alan G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
Forty children (ages five to nine) with or without reading disabilities, matched for mental age or reading age, completed a phoneme-grapheme learning task. Reading-disabled children took more trials than controls to learn correspondence pairs. Performance on the phonological processing task of short-term memory was the best predictor of overall…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Learning Disabilities, Learning Processes, Performance Factors