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Peer reviewedBradley-Johnson, Sharon; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1983
Compared two teaching strategies, delayed-prompting and fading, for teaching the most easily confused letters and numbers to preschoolers (N=39). The results indicated that children who received discrimination training using delayed prompting made fewer errors on the posttests for the letters and numbers mastered than did children taught via…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Letters (Alphabet), Numbers, Outcomes of Education
Peer reviewedNelson, Rosemery O.; Wein, Kenneth S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1974
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Learning, Letters (Alphabet), Operant Conditioning
Teaching Children to Discriminate Letters of the Alphabet Through Errorless Discrimination Training.
Download full textEgeland, Byron; Winer, Ken – 1972
Each of two experimenters taught one set of 32 prekindergarteners to discriminate four different letter combinations (R-P, Y-V, C-G, and K-X). Each set of children was randomly selected and assigned to two treatment conditions. The treatment consisted of three warm-up trials, 10 actual training trials, and four post-test trials on a…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Error Patterns, Feedback, Letters (Alphabet)
Masonheimer, Patricia E. – 1981
Preschool children's association of the correct name with a clearly identified graphic form during an alphabet naming process is examined in this study. Subjects were 139 children (ages 2, 3, 4, and 5 years) who were asked individually to identify 52 cards, each with a single upper or lower case letter printed on it. Analysis of data was based on…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Discrimination Learning, Error Analysis (Language)
Peer reviewedDeneke, R. J.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports that praise and extrinsic reinforcers, such as candy, increased the rate of letter recognition in preschool children and that the increase was partially maintained when the reinforcement was removed. (FL)
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Early Childhood Education, Language Research, Learning Motivation
