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And Now the Rest of the Story: The Research Process as Intervention in Experimental and Qualitative Studies.
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Boudah, Daniel J.; Lenz, B. Keith – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2000
This article contends that educational researchers need to realize that the research process itself is an unregarded intervention beyond any intentional treatment effects or secondary effects on the research participants or other stakeholders. Implications are discussed for conducting and reporting experimental and qualitative research to increase…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Research, Educational Research, Experimental Groups
Treatment Integrity in Learning Disabilities Intervention Research: Do We Really Know How Treatments Are Implemented?
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Gresham, Frank M.; MacMillan, Donald L.; Beebe-Frankenberger, Margaret E.; Bocian, Kathleen M. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2000
A survey of intervention articles published in major learning disabilities journals over the past 5 years found only 18.5 percent of these studies measured the integrity with which treatments were implemented, thus casting doubt on treatment effectiveness. This article discusses treatment integrity logic, threats to experimental validity without…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Effects of a Reading Fluency Intervention for Middle Schoolers with Specific Learning Disabilities.
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Mercer, Cecil D.; Campbell, Kenneth U.; Miller, M. David; Mercer, Kenneth D.; Lane, Holly B. – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2000
A daily 5- to 6-minute individual reading fluency intervention with 49 middle school students with learning disabilities used repeated readings focused on phonics, sight phrases, and oral reading. Intervention was for 6-9 months, 10-18 months, or 19-25 months. Significant growth in reading level and reading rate was found for all three of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Middle Schools
Studying Social Development and Learning Disabilities Is Not for the Faint-Hearted: Comments on the Risk/Resilience Framework.
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Donahue, Mavis L.; Pearl, Ruth – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2003
This paper urges researchers in learning disabilities not to embrace the risk/resilience framework without rigorous consideration of four issues: the meaning of risk and resilience factors; how to characterize learning disabilities as risk factors; just what the risk is; and how this framework may guide intervention efforts. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention
Instructing Adolescents with Learning Disabilities: A Component and Composite Analysis.
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Swanson, H. Lee; Hoskyn, Maureen – Learning Disabilities: Research & Practice, 2001
Instructional components that positively influence performance of adolescents with learning disabilities are identified based on a comprehensive meta-analysis of 913 intervention studies for students with learning disabilities. Explicit practice and advanced organization are basic instructional components in a number of successful intervention…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Educational Strategies, Instructional Design