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Generalization and Adaptation of Learning Strategies to Natural Environments: Part 2: Research into Practice.
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Ellis, Edwin S.; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
Research based instructional procedures to facilitate generalization of learning strategies by remedial students are offered at four levels of generalization: antecedent, concurrent, subsequent, and independent. Within each level, specific procedures mediated by the special teacher, the regular teacher, peer, and/or student are illustrated.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
Teaching Adolescents with Learning Disabilities to Generate and Use Task-Specific Strategies.
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Ellis, Edwin S.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
An individual instruction intervention with 13 high school students with learning disabilities improved: (1) metacognitive knowledge related to generating or adapting task-specific strategies, (2) ability to generate problem-solving strategies for novel problems, and (3) students' regular classroom grades. (DB)
Descriptors: High Schools, Individual Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention
Generalization and Adaptation of Learning Strategies to Natural Environments: Part 1: Critical Agents.
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Ellis, Edwin S.; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1987
The article discusses generalization in use of learning strategies with the mildly disabled and presents a generalization model. Major research findings indicate the importance of explicit instruction in generalization, teacher expectation of strategy generalization, and feedback. Seven areas of research needs (such as motivation and metacognition…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Expectation, Feedback, Generalization
An Instructional Model for Teaching Learning Strategies.
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Ellis, Edwin S.; And Others – Focus on Exceptional Children, 1991
This paper discusses the two important domains affecting the success of learning strategy training for students with learning disabilities or other mild handicaps: students' knowledge of critical skills and information potentially related to strategy use, and students' motivation to learn and use the strategy. The paper presents an eight-stage…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Knowledge Level, Learning Disabilities
Integrating Writing Strategy Instruction with Content-Area Instruction: Part II--Writing Processes.
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Ellis, Edwin S. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1994
This article explains the Integrated Strategies Instruction Model by analyzing the problems of ineffective writers and presenting instructional techniques for framing, applying, and extending students' understanding of the executive strategy. A vignette from an eighth-grade history classroom illustrates the guidelines. Research regarding the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Metacognition, Secondary Education
Research Synthesis on Effective Teaching Principles and the Design of Quality Tools for Educators. Technical Report No. 5.
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Ellis, Edwin S.; Worthington, Lou Anne – 1994
This monograph presents a synthesis of the literature on empirically supported effective teaching principles that have been derived from research on behavioral, cognitive, social-learning, and other theories. After an introductory section, the first section discusses characteristics of empowered and ineffective learners. Motivational, cognitive,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Early Childhood Education, Educational Principles, Educational Strategies