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Farber, Rachel S.; Dube, William V.; Dickson, Chata A. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2016
Individuals with developmental disabilities may fail to attend to multiple features in compound stimuli (e.g., arrays of pictures, letters within words) with detrimental effects on learning. Participants were 5 children with autism spectrum disorder who had low to intermediate accuracy scores (35% to 84%) on a computer-presented compound matching…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
Perrin, David W.; Kerasotes, Dean L. – 1979
It was hypothesized that using asterisks as attention focusing devices would cause students to read all asteriked test items more carefully and would improve test scores of undergraduate education students. Sixty-three undergraduates majoring in elementary or special education were administered a 36-item objective test. Asterisks were used to…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Objective Tests, Response Style (Tests)