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Peer reviewedFulk, Barbara J. Mushinski; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This study with 56 learning-disabled adolescents found that intensive generalization training specific to the development of complex mnemonic strategies was demonstrably more effective in recall at 1-day and 2-week intervals than a rehearsal condition. No added advantage was gained by adding attribution training to the mnemonic generalization…
Descriptors: Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Peer reviewedSugden, David; Newall, Margaret – British Journal of Special Education, 1987
Semantic elaboration, a language-based mnemonic strategy, was taught to 15 students (aged five to nine years) with moderate learning difficulties over a six-month period, using pictures as stimuli. Among reported results was an improvement in overall performance on memorization of pairs of pictures. Generalization to items not used during teaching…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Generalization, Language Processing, Language Skills
