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Bob's Productive Task Engagement in Fractional Reasoning: A Case Study
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Jessica H. Hunt; Kristi Martin – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2024
Productive engagement in fractional reasoning is essential for abstracting fundamental algebraic concepts vital to college and career success. Yet, data suggest students with learning disabilities (LDs), in particular, display pervasive shortfalls in learning and mastering fraction content. We argue that shortfalls in understanding are in fact…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Algebra
Arab-Israeli Mothers' Attribution, Affective, and Behavioral Responses toward Their Child with a Learning Disability: Examining an Attribution Model of Reactions to Stigma
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Lucia, Abeer; Soffer, Michal – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2020
Studies show that people with a learning disability (LD) are stigmatized. The study adopts the major tenets of the "Attribution Model of Reactions to Stigmas" (AMRS), which postulates that causal attributions to disability ("stigmas") are associated with affective responses that lead to behavioral outcomes. Adopting a…
Descriptors: Mothers, Arabs, Foreign Countries, Parent Child Relationship
Fathers and Mothers of Children with Learning Disabilities: Links between Emotional and Coping Resources
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Al-Yagon, Michal – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2015
This study compared emotional and coping resources of two parent groups with children ages 8 to 12 years--children with learning disabilities (LD) versus with typical development--and explored how mothers' and fathers' emotional resources (low anxious/avoidant attachment, low negative affect, and high positive affect) may explain differences in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Coping, Emotional Response, Parents
A Multicomponent Measure of Writing Motivation with Basic College Writers
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MacArthur, Charles A.; Philippakos, Zoi A.; Graham, Steve – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to develop and validate a measure of motivation for use with basic college writers that would measure self-efficacy, achievement goals, beliefs, and affect. As part of a design research project on curriculum for community college developmental writing classes, 133 students in 11 classes completed the motivation…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Student Motivation, Evaluation Methods
The Concept of Intrinsic Motivation: Implications for Practice and Research with the Learning Disabled
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Adelman, Howard S. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
Available from: Council for Exceptional Children, 1920 Association Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091.
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Etiology, Evaluation, Intervention
Classroom Behavior of Learning Disabled Children.
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McKinney, James D.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
Teacher ratings and observational data were gathered on 22 pairs of learning disabled (LD) and non-LD children in the second and fourth grades in an effort to compare their task-oriented, social, and affective behavior patterns in regular class settings. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Affective Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education
An Examination of Psychosocial Aspects of Learning Disabled Adolescents.
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Kronick, Doreen – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1978
Learning disabled adolescents often exhibit psychosocial deficits independent of academic failure and frustration. (PHR)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Affective Behavior, Egocentrism, Empathy
Assessing Social Perception Abilities in Learning Disabled Students.
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Maheady, Larry; Maitland, George E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1982
Experimental attempts at assessing the social perception skills of learning disabled (LD) children are reviewed, along with methodological concerns relative to these experiments, and possible directions for future social perception research. Ten studies that examined LD children's ability to interpret nonverbal cues indicated they performed more…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Empathy, Exceptional Child Research, Generalization