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Karolina Urton; Mariola Moeyaert; Kerstin Nobel; Anne Barwasser; Richard T. Boon; Matthias Grünke – Exceptionality, 2025
This study employed a meta-analytic approach to examine the effectiveness of graphic organizers (GOs) in improving academic and behavioral outcomes for K-12 students with disabilities, drawing from the single-case special education literature. Moderators at participant and study level were analyzed in addition to the main effects. A comprehensive…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Students with Disabilities, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Cook, Mike P. – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2017
Few empirical studies have been conducted to investigate the educational uses of graphic novels. Because of this, misconceptions and stereotypes exist. This article presents findings from a study examining the effects of graphic novels on high school students' (N = 217) reading comprehension. A graphic adaptation of a traditionally taught text…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Novels, Reading Comprehension, High School Students
Chismar, Sister Marie Helene – 1971
This investigation tested whether an experimental group using cross-level grouping made greater gains in reading achievement than a control group using the conventional approach of one-level-lower instruction in providing for underachievers. The subjects, 401 students in grades 4 through 8 (169 of whom were underachievers according to scores on…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Heterogeneous Grouping, Instructional Program Divisions, Middle Schools
STEERE, BOB F. – 1967
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A NONGRADED HIGH SCHOOL WAS COMPARED WITH THAT OF A TRADITIONALLY GRADED HIGH SCHOOL IN THE SAME CITY BY ADMINISTERING TESTS AND RELATED EVALUATION METHODS TO A RANDOMLY SELECTED SAMPLE GROUP OF 141 TENTH-YEAR STUDENTS AT EACH OF THE SCHOOLS. SIX STUDENT GROUPS FOR EACH SCHOOL (DISTINGUISHED BY SEX AND ABILITY LEVEL) WERE USED…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Classification