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Peer reviewedBoyle, Joseph R.; Weishaar, Mary – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1997
Thirty-nine high school students with mild disabilities and poor reading comprehension were trained to use either student-generated or expert-generated cognitive organizers to improve literal and inferential reading comprehension. Following training, both groups exceeded the reading comprehension performance of a control group, and students using…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Advance Organizers, Cognitive Processes, High Schools
