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Peterson, Robin L.; McGrath, Lauren M.; Willcutt, Erik G.; Keenan, Janice M.; Olson, Richard K.; Pennington, Bruce F. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2021
Despite historical emphasis on "specific" learning disabilities (SLDs), academic skills are strongly correlated across the curriculum. Thus, one can ask how specific SLDs truly are. To answer this question, we used bifactor models to identify variance shared across academic domains (academic "g"), as well as variance unique to…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Clinical Diagnosis
Spenceley, Laura M.; Wood, Whitney L. M.; Valentino, Marisa; Lewandowski, Lawrence J. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2020
This study investigated the extent to which standardized reading performance, individual perceptions of reading and test taking skills, and test anxiety predict the amount of extended time needed to equalize test access for college students with disabilities. Thirty-seven college students with a specific learning disorder (LD) and/or an attention…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Test Anxiety, Self Efficacy, Predictor Variables
Singer, Vivian; Strasser, Kathernie – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Many studies of school achievement find a significant association between reading and arithmetic achievement. The magnitude of the association varies widely across the studies, but the sources of this variation have not been identified. The purpose of this paper is to examine the magnitude and determinants of the relation between arithmetic and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Reading Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students

Runyan, M. Kay – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
The study, with 16 learning-disabled and 15 normally achieving college students, found a significant difference on reading comprehension scores between groups under timed conditions but no significant differences in test performance when both groups were provided extra time. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Lesaux, Nonie K.; Pearson, M. Rufina; Siegel, Linda S. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2006
This study examined the effects of extra time on the reading comprehension performance of a heterogeneous group of adults with reading disabilities. Sixty-four adults participated. A clinic that assesses learning disabilities identified 22 as reading disabled, and 42 as normal readers. The 64 adults took a reading comprehension test under both…
Descriptors: Timed Tests, Reading Tests, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Huesman, Ronald L., Jr.; Frisbie, David A. – 2000
This study investigated the effect of extended-time limits in terms of performance levels and score comparability for reading comprehension scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS). The first part of the study compared the average reading comprehension scores on the ITBS of 61 sixth-graders with learning disabilities and 397 non learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
Scruggs, Thomas E.; Lifson, Steve – 1984
The ability to correctly answer reading comprehension test items, without having read the accompanying reading passage, was compared for third grade learning disabled students and their peers from a regular classroom. In the first experiment, fourteen multiple choice items were selected from the Stanford Achievement Test. No reading passages were…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Guessing (Tests)