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Rhode Island Department of Education, 2020
This document discusses specific learning disabilities identification (SLD ID) determination implications and considerations with distance learning and school reentry due to COVID-19.
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Learning Disabilities, Identification
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Stuebing, Karla K.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Branum-Martin, Lee; Francis, David J. – School Psychology Review, 2012
This study used simulation techniques to evaluate the technical adequacy of three methods for the identification of specific learning disabilities via patterns of strengths and weaknesses in cognitive processing. Latent and observed data were generated and the decision-making process of each method was applied to assess concordance in…
Descriptors: Simulation, Learning Disabilities, Efficiency, Psychometrics
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Tindall, Daniel; Foley, John – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2011
The main goals of the sport education model (SEM) are to help students become competent, literate, and enthusiastic sportspersons by offering learning opportunities through contextualized sport experiences within the physical education setting. While various resources recommend suitable and easy-to-use assessment tools for physical education…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Disabilities, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
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Rosenblum, Yonatan; Larochette, Anne-Claire; Harrison, Allyson G.; Armstrong, Irene – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2010
Learning Disabilities (LDs) affect a significant number of students in elementary and secondary school. In order for these students, along with parents and teachers, to understand the nature of their specific difficulties, and have equal opportunity in academic settings, a comprehensive psychological report containing properly informed…
Descriptors: Psychological Evaluation, Learning Disabilities, Test Interpretation, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; Spaulding, Lucinda S. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2008
The reauthorized Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA) established new provisions for specific learning disability (SLD) identification, including: (a) no longer requiring consideration of IQ-achievement discrepancy and (b) permitting response to intervention (RTI) as part of SLD evaluation procedures. We discuss several…
Descriptors: Intervention, Federal Legislation, Learning Disabilities, Identification
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De La Paz, Susan – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2009
Rubrics are an integral part of many writing programs, and they represent elements of good writing in essays, stories, poems, as well as other genres and forms of text. Although it is possible to use rubrics to teach students about the processes underlying effective writing, a more common practice is to use rubrics as a means of assessment, after…
Descriptors: Writing Strategies, Learning Disabilities, Essays, Writing Instruction
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Jung, Dae Young – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2007
In the context of the educational system and the nature of special education in South Korea, I describe policy, practice, and research about children with learning disabilities (LD). Recently, the study of LD has attracted professionals from multiple disciplines including general and special education, medicine, psychology, and social work. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Social Work, Learning Disabilities
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Rizza, Mary G.; Morrison, William F. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2007
Students identified as gifted who also display one or more areas of disability remain under-identified both in special and gifted education programs. All too often school personnel do not have the resources necessary to make decisions about this unique group of students commonly called the twice-exceptional. The purpose of this article is to…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Gifted, Gifted Disabled, Gifted Disadvantaged
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Proger, Barton B. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
Several general models for program evaluation are described and criticized. The value of total program evaluation for making more scientifically-based decisions in programing is demonstrated, and agencies offering help in devising evaluation schemes for ongoing learning disabilities programs are recommended. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities
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Porch, Bruce E. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1971
Descriptors: Aphasia, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities
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Clarizio, Harvey F.; Phillips, S. E. – Journal of School Psychology, 1989
Compared z-score discrepancy and regression procedure for determining severe discrepancy between ability and achievement among 236 learning-disabled (LD) referrals. Contrasted results with policy dictating that lowest achieving of referrals be considered LD. Evaluated each student with individual intelligence scale and achievement test. Results…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Kavale, Kenneth A.; And Others – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
This article examines the problem of definition in learning disabilities. It discusses the failure of conceptual definitions to provide a clear idea of what learning disabilities are, examines the true nature of available definitions as stipulative definitions, and notes the difficulty in conceptualizing and implementing operational definitions.…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Bennett, Deborah E.; Clarizio, Harvey F. – Journal of School Psychology, 1988
Used scores from 86 elementary school students referred for learning disabilities to compare four methods of determining a severe discrepancy between ability and achievement. Found high degree of agreement between z-score and estimated true score difference approaches. Less agreement was found between unadjusted regression procedure and other…
Descriptors: Ability, Achievement, Congruence (Psychology), Diagnostic Tests
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Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1991
The National Joint Committee for Learning Disabilities' definition of learning disabilities is presented, followed by a discussion of parameters to be considered in operationalizing the definition. Major definitional issues are then explored, including using testable and meaningful constructs, linking definitions to neuropsychological evidence,…
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
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Rademacher, Joyce A. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2000
The first part of this article explains the connection between planning, presenting, and evaluating assignments for students who demonstrate ineffective assignment completion strategies. The second part offers specific guidelines for teaching students to check their own finished assignments according to a set of quality work criteria. (Contains…
Descriptors: Assignments, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
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