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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012
"Reading Mastery" is designed to provide explicit reading instruction to students in grades pre-K-5. One of several Direct Instruction curricula from McGraw-Hill, "Reading Mastery" is available in two versions: (1) "Reading Mastery Classic" (for grades pre-K-2) aims to help beginning readers identify letter sounds,…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Program Evaluation, Mastery Learning, Direct Instruction
Bruyere, Susanne – Community College Journal, 2008
Colleges increasingly rely on the Web to attract, inform, and interact with students. This makes Web site accessibility and usability critical concerns, particularly for public community colleges, which educate sizable numbers of students with disabilities. As committed providers of postsecondary education to students with disabilities and thus a…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Community Colleges, Learning Disabilities, Educational Technology
Wehman, Paul; McLaughlin, Phillip J. – Academic Therapy, 1979
The article reviews basic behavioral program evaluation designs, and suggests how they might be effectively integrated into special education programs serving handicapped (and particularly learning disabled) children. It is concluded that the techniques of behavioral design, coupled with the essentials of teaching, enable the special education…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities, Program Evaluation

Schworm, Ronald W.; Abelseth, Janet L. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1981
The article describes an evaluation procedure that observes the child's ability to use specific learning strategies. By extending on and manipulating initial responses, the procedures help determine the amount of interaction needed to influence a child's performance and identify the kinds of instructional interactions that exercise control over…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Observation

Campione, Joseph C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1989
Criticisms of traditional approaches to the assessment of student abilities and instructional program design are reviewed and alternative, dynamic approaches are suggested. A major feature of the suggested approaches is assistance to influence student performance and thus reveal the potential for change. The approaches are categorized and examined…
Descriptors: Classification, Evaluation Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities

Proger, Barton B. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1971
Several general models for program evaluation are described and criticized. The value of total program evaluation for making more scientifically-based decisions in programing is demonstrated, and agencies offering help in devising evaluation schemes for ongoing learning disabilities programs are recommended. (Author/KW)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Exceptional Child Education, Learning Disabilities

Fenton, Shannon; Newberry, Jason; McManus, Kelly; Korabik, Karen; Evans, Mary Ann – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2000
Describes the program developed at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to promote the academic and workplace success and social and emotional adjustment of students with learning disabilities. Presents details of the evaluation planned for this program, emphasizing the importance of flexibility. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education

Epstein, Michael H.; Cullinan, Douglas – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1979
The article describes the social comparison method of social validation and reports on several studies in which it was used to evaluate interventions with learning disabled (LD) students. Several implications and areas for further study are discussed, relating to the use of the social comparison method in evaluating treatment programs for LD…
Descriptors: Educational Therapy, Evaluation Methods, Intervention, Learning Disabilities
Johnson, E.; Mellard, D. F.; Fuchs, D.; McKnight, M. A. – National Research Center on Learning Disabilities, 2006
The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities (Lawrence, KS) prepared this manual as a tool for implementing Responsiveness to Intervention (RTI). The manual can help schools understand, design, and evaluate the RTI features that they will implement. This RTI Manual is based on current research regarding the features of RTI. While striving…
Descriptors: Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Case Studies, Student Evaluation
Deno, Stanley L.; And Others – 1979
The monograph considers four issues in behavioral assessment of learning disabled (LD) students: primary assumptions of the behavioral approach, identification of LD students, program planning for identified students, and program evaluation. Among factors examined in the first section are the components of experimental analysis of behavior,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Evaluation Methods, Identification, Learning Disabilities
Ysseldyke, James E.; And Others – 1982
Five years of research findings on assessment and decision making for learning disabled (LD) students are summarized through 14 generalizations. the generalizations deal with five issues: which students to refer for psychoeducational evaluation; which students to declare eligible for LD services; how to plan specific instructional interventions…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Evaluation Methods

Johnson, Doris J. – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 1989
The article lists questions parents can use to evaluate the quality of educational services for children with learning disabilities. Questions are grouped into the following categories: services, agency and staff, residential or special schools, camps. (DB)
Descriptors: Agencies, Delivery Systems, Educational Practices, Evaluation Methods
Ysseldyke, James E., Ed.; Mirkin, Phyllis K., Ed. – 1979
Proceedings from the Minnesota Roundtable Conference on Assessment of Learning Disabled children include two major presentations reviewing research and reactions to those presentations from conference participants. J. Ysseldyke's presentation "Psychoeducational Assessment and Decision Making" reviews basic considerations underlying his…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Intervention

Bergquist, Constance C. – Exceptional Children, 1982
Criterion-referenced tests in a time-series design were found to be the most feasible methodology for evaluating placement in an early intervention program for mildly retarded, learning disabled, and emotionally disturbed children. Advantages included provision of longitudinal data, while the major disadvantage was administration time. (CL)
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Emotional Disturbances, Evaluation Methods, Learning Disabilities
Alvir, Howard P. – 1979
The paper examines ways to choose appropriate objectives for program evaluation in the education of the handicapped. Section I discusses how too much pressure can distort priorities (alignment of short-term objectives with long-term objectives), and lists six steps in determining priorities. Section II applies the principles to learning disabled…
Descriptors: Accountability, Evaluation Methods, Guidelines, Handicapped Children