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Hott, Brittany L.; Berkeley, Sheri; Reid, Campbell C.; Raymond, Lesli – Exceptionality, 2020
Practitioner journals are one means of translating research to practice. This study explored the extent behavioral interventions for students with mild disabilities are disseminated through special education practitioner journals. Researchers reviewed 3,298 articles published between 1988 and 2017 in four prominent special education practitioner…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Periodicals, Mild Disabilities, Intervention
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Hott, Brittany; Berkeley, Sheri; Fairfield, Ambre; Shora, Nelly – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2017
Decreasing the well-documented research-to-practice gap in special education is thought to partially depend on practitioner access to quality evidence-based interventions. Practitioner journals are one such resource for obtaining this information. The current study is a systematic review of articles published over the last 25 years (1990-2014) in…
Descriptors: Intervention, Special Education, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities
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Regan, Kelley; Berkeley, Sheri; Hughes, Melissa; Kirby, Suzanne – Journal of Special Education, 2014
Despite a lack of conclusive evidence, many researchers in the field view computer-assisted instruction (CAI) as an opportunity for improved instruction for students with disabilities. This study examined the effects of a CAI program, Lexia Strategies for Older Students (SOS)™ on the word recognition skills of four, upper elementary students with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Reading Instruction, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students
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Berkeley, Sheri; Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
A pre-post experimental design with 6-week delayed posttest was implemented to investigate the effects of reading comprehension strategy (RCS) instruction with and without attribution retraining (AR) on reading outcomes for seventh, eighth, and ninth graders with learning and other mild disabilities. Students were randomly assigned to one of three…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Research Design, Mild Disabilities, Effect Size
Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E.; Norland, Jennifer J.; Berkeley, Sheri; McDuffie, Kimberly; Tornquist, Elizabeth Halloran; Connors, Nicole – Journal of Special Education, 2006
This investigation compared quantitative outcomes associated with class-wide peer tutoring using differentiated hands-on activities vs. teacher-directed instruction for students with mild disabilities in inclusive 8th-grade science classes. Thirteen classes of 213 students (109 males; 104 females), of whom 44 were classified with disabilities,…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mild Disabilities, High Stakes Tests, Attitudes toward Disabilities