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Need for Instruction: Dynamic Testing in Special Education
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Bosma, Tirza; Resing, Wilma C. M. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2012
The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of dynamic testing in the measuring of children's need for instruction and to explore responses of special education teachers to dynamic testing results. Thirty-six 10-12-year-old children with a moderate to mild intellectual disability and their teachers participated. Children in the…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Educational Needs, Mental Retardation, Testing
The Effect of Varied Practice Activities in Complementing Visualized Instruction.
Dwyer, Carol A. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine whether different types of practice strategies are equally effective in facilitating encoding strategies and in subsequent information acquisition and retrieval by students identified as possessing high, medium, and low prior knowledge levels in a content area. Within the context of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Drills (Practice), Encoding (Psychology)
The Effect of Visualized Instruction and Varied Rehearsal and Evaluation Strategies (Verbal and Visual) in Facilitating Students' Long-Term Retention on Tests Measuring Different Instructional Objectives.
Dwyer, Francis M. – Journal of Visual/Verbal Languaging, 1985
This study investigated effects of rehearsal strategies and immediate test formats on delayed retention and effectiveness of visualization on material acquisition and retrieval. Findings indicate different rehearsal methods have different effects in facilitating delayed retention. Information acquisition is facilitated by visualization, although…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Epistemology, Higher Education