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Layering Visuals to Empower Struggling Students
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Hord, Casey; Kastberg, Signe; Marita, Samantha – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2019
Mathematics problems that are unfamiliar to students and contain multiple sets of information can overwhelm many struggling learners (Swanson & Beebe-Frankenberger, 2004). Academic interventions utilising visual representations can support students who are struggling to remember information and think through challenging multi-step problems…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intervention, Visual Stimuli
Does Cognitive Strategy Training on Word Problems Compensate for Working Memory Capacity in Children with Math Difficulties?
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H. Lee Swanson – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Cognitive strategies are important tools for children with math difficulties (MD) in learning to solve word problems. The effectiveness of strategy training, however, depends on working memory capacity (WMC). Thus, children with MD but with relatively higher WMC are more likely to benefit from strategy training, whereas children with lower WMC may…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cognitive Processes, Learning Problems, Mathematics Instruction
The Effects of Mathematics Strategy Instruction for Children with Serious Problem-Solving Difficulties
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Swanson, H. Lee; Orosco, Michael J.; Lussier, Cathy M. – Exceptional Children, 2014
This study investigated the role of strategy instruction on solution accuracy in children with and without serious math difficulties (MD) in problem solving. Children's posttest solution accuracy was compared on standardized and experimental measures as a function of strategy conditions. Strategy conditions included curriculum materials that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving, Learning Problems
Rapid Automatized Naming and Immediate Memory Functions in Chinese Children Who Read English as a Second Language
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Ding, Yi; Guo, Jian-Peng; Yang, Ling-Yan; Zhang, Dake; Ning, Huan; Richman, Lynn C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2013
This study examined reading performance of 102 Chinese Mandarin-speaking 4th graders in their second language (L2, English) as a function of performance in their first language (L1, Chinese). The results revealed that for Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) and Rapid Alternating Stimulus (RAS) measures, the mean naming time decreased monotonically in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Naming, Memory
Improving Native American Children's Listening Comprehension through Concrete Representations
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Marley, Scott C.; Levin, Joel R.; Glenberg, Arthur M. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
The primary purpose of the present study was to determine whether recent findings documenting the benefits of text-related motor activity on young children's memory for reading passages [Glenberg, A. M., Gutierrez, T., Levin, J. R., Japuntich, S., & Kaschak, M. (2004). Activity and imagined activity can enhance young readers' reading…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Toys, Memory, Learning Problems
Memory for Verbal and Nonverbal Stimuli in Learning Disability Subgroups: Analysis by Selective Reminding.
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Fletcher, Jack M. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Results revealed that arithmetic-disabled and spelling/arithmetic-disabled children had significantly lower storage and retrieval scores on a nonverbal task but did not differ on a verbal task; reading/spelling-disabled children differed only on retrieval scores from verbal task; and the reading/spelling/arithmetic-disabled children differed only…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes