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Effects of Cooperative Learning on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of Urban Adolescents with Learning Disabilities.
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Brandt, Fred J.; Ellsworth, Nancy J. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1996
Results of a study conducted of 12 self-contained special education high school classes (n=74 students) indicated that cooperative learning was more effective than traditional noncooperative learning in improving academic achievement in these students with learning disabilities. Increased self-esteem in cooperative learning students was not found.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cooperative Learning, High Schools
Disaggregation: What's Good for the Goose is Good for the Gander, Assessment for NCLB vs. Assessment for Learning Disability Identification
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Cherkes-Julkowski, Miriam – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) firmly insists that performance analyses use disaggregated scores. Disaggregation, according to NCLB, involves measuring and reporting achievement for separate subgroups of children so that achievement problems in any one subgroup are not disguised when averaged or aggregated with higher achieving children in…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Disability Identification, School Personnel