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Online Writing Processes in Translating Cognition into Language and Transcribing Written Language by Stylus and Keyboard in Upper Elementary and Middle School Students with Persisting Dysgraphia or Dyslexia
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Beers, Scott F.; Berninger, Virginia; Mickail, Terry; Abbott, Robert – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
Participants in this study completed an online experiment in which they wrote essays by stylus or keyboard. Three translation measures (length of language burst, length of pauses, and rate of pausing) and four transcription measures (total words, total time, words/minute, and percent spelling errors) for composition were analyzed for two research…
Descriptors: Educational Experiments, Comparative Analysis, Writing Processes, Essays
Differentiating Low Achieving Students and Students with Learning Disabilities: An Examination of Performances on the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery.
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Merrell, Kenneth W. – Journal of Special Education, 1990
The study, with learning-disabled (n=152) and low-achieving (n=93) elementary and middle school students, attempted to isolate which cognitive ability and academic achievement variables from the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery differentiated the two groups. Three W-J academic variables (skills, reading, and written language) most…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education
Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery--Revised: Recommendations and Reports.
Mather, Nancy; Jaffe, Lynne E. – 1992
This book is intended to serve as a reference for evaluators using the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery--Revised (WJ-R) and to assist examiners in preparing psychoeducational reports for individuals of all ages. In the first section, a wide variety of educational recommendations is provided for the cognitive factors, oral language, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Cognitive Ability, Diagnostic Tests, Disabilities