Center for Research on Learning Research Reports and Monographs: Recent submissions
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Mainstream Teachers' Responses to Formal Features of Writing by Secondary/Learning Disabled Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-07-01)The purpose of this study was to isolate specific formal features to determine which of seven features contributed most to teachers' ratings, and to learn whether secondary teachers of core subjects would disregard gross ... -
Social Skills Performances of Learning Disabled, Non-Learning Disabled and Delinquent Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-08-01)This study compared the social skills performances of LD adolescents on eight general social skills to the performances of two other groups of youths: a group of nonhandicapped adolescents who were members of a high school ... -
The Development of a Self-Rating Instrument to Screen for Learning Disabilities Among Adolescents and Young Adults
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-06-01)The research described in this report represents the further development of a series of studies to develop and test screening procedures for learning disabilities among adolescent and young adult populations. The classification ... -
Structural Linkages, Expectancy Climate and School Effectiveness
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-07-01)The purpose of the investigation was to determine the effects of structural linkages and expectancy climate on four indicators of school effectiveness and to assess the stability and patterns of relationships during a ... -
Teaching a Paragraph Organization Strategy to Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-08-01)In this study, 8 LD students were taught a learning strategy to structure the organization of single paragraphs. Three paragraph styles ware taught. Results indicated: {a) paragraph styles appeared to be interdependent, ... -
Performance and Competence of Learning Disabled and High-Achieving High School Students on Essential Cognitive Skills
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-07-01)This study was designed to measure performance differences of learning disabled and high-achieving high school students judged crucial to academic learning and to determine teacher performance standards on those same crucial ... -
Effects of Teaching a Questioning Strategy on Reading Comprehension of Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)Nine junior high learning disabled students received a Questioning Treatment and an equivalent Control Group received traditional reading training. The results of this study confirmed the hypothesis that training a questioning ... -
Visual Imagery and Self-Questioning: Strategies to Improve Comprehension of Written
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)Two learning strategies, visual imagery and-self-questioning, designed to increase reading comprehension were taught to six learning disabled students using a multiple-baseline across strategies design. Results of the study ... -
A Comparison of Five Discrepancy Criteria for Determining Learning Disabilities in Secondary School Populations
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)Two groups of students were identified in grades 7 through 12--a school-defined learning disabled group and a group of low achieving students who were not receiving special education services. Five operational definitions ... -
Teaching Learning Disabled Junior High Students to Use Visual Imagery as a Strategy for Facilitating Recall of Reading Passages
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01))his study investigated whether recall of prose passages by LD students could be improved by training those students to use visual imagery when they read. Students in an imagery-training group received 30 minutes of ... -
Implementing Goal Setting Activities with LD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)In this study, LD adolescents were taught to set realistic goals, to expend effort to achieve the goals, and to accept responsibility for achieving or failing to achieve their goals. The intervention produced a significant ... -
Teaching Self-Control Procedures to Learning Disabled Youths
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study developed and evaluated a self-instructional booklet that teaches adolescents to change their behaviors with minimal intervention from other individuals. The subjects, to varying degrees, learned the principles ... -
The Relationship Between Learning Disabilities and Juvenile Delinquency: A Link Based on Family and School
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study investigated the relationship between learning disabilities and juvenile delinquency with regard to the environmental factors of family and school. Subjects were 90 student-inmates from a correctional facility ... -
Improving Social Interactions Between Learning Disabled Adolescents and Teachers: A Child Effects Approach
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study investigated whether LD adolescents could be taught to change their classroom behavior in ways that would effect how their teachers treated them and whether they could be taught to generalize positive changes ... -
Interactions Between Teachers and Learning Disabled and Non-Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)A number of recent studies with learning disabled children have suggested that they may have poor social skills; however, research with LD adolescents in school settings has reported few differences in LD and non-LD ... -
A Comparison of Verbal Problem-Solving in Arithmetic of LD and Non-LD Seventh Grade Males
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)This study was conducted to determine if differences existed between a group of LD and a group of NLD students in their ability to solve verbal arithmetic problems. The sample consisted of 20 LD and 20 NLD seventh grade ... -
Teaching Job-Related Social Skills to Learning Disabled Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Previous research has indicated that LD adolescents perform poorly on a test of employment-related social skills (Mathews, Whang, & Fawcett, in press). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of training ... -
Teaching Job-Seeking Skills to Learning Disabled Adolescents: An Experimental Analysis and Social Validation
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Procedures designed to teach the skills involved in completing an employment application and resume writing were evaluated with three learning disabled adolescents using a multiple-baseline design. Training involved reading ... -
Production Deficiency vs. Processing Dysfunction: An Experimental Assessment
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)According to Torgesen (1977), LD students deficient performance is not reflective of cognitive processing deficits but of a production deficiency. The student is capable of satisfactory achievement, but does not achieve ... -
The Effect of Teaching Sixth Graders with Learning Difficulties a Strategy for Solving Verbal Math Problems
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)In this study, subjects were taught a seven-step verbal problem-solving strategy. Results indicated an increase in percent correct on eight mathematics word problems for each subject following intervention. Baseline probes ...