Center for Research on Learning Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Medicaid's Expenditures for Newer Pharmacotherapies for Adults with Disabilities
(Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2007-06-01)Medicaid's drug expenditures have grown at double-digit inflation rates since 2000. These prescription drug costs are important contributors to increasing health care costs for disabled persons. In spite of this knowledge, ... -
Planning in the Face of Academic Diversity: Whose Questions Should We Be Answering?
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1991-03-01)The goal of this investigation was to identify how regular high school and middle school social studies and science teachers approach teaching their most academically diverse class. Specifically, we sought to determine ... -
The Plans of Secondary Social Studies and Science Teachers for Teaching an Academically Diverse Class
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)The goal of this research was to learn how teachers plan for instruction of their classes made up of academically diverse students. We sought to identify not only what they plan to teach, but also what resources they draw ... -
Barriers to Planning for At-Risk students Implications for Teacher Planning
(1992-08-01)Most studies to date of teacher planning have focused on teachers at the elementary level. The research reported here seeks to expand our knowledge of teacher planning to include the experiences of secondary teachers ... -
Meeting the Challenge of Academic Diversity: Actions of Secondary Social Studies and Science Teachers
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)The goal of this research was to identify what actions teachers take to include all students in learning in academically diverse secondary classrooms. Information was gathered through a collaborative project with 52 secondary ... -
Obstacles to Teaching in the Face of Academic Diversity: Implcations for Planning for Students with Disabilities
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)This study was a collaborative project the incorporated the concerns and insights of 52 secondary science and social studies teachers in identifying the major obstacles in planning to teach academically diverse groups of ... -
Factors Promoting Personal Growth When Teaching Academically Diverse Classes
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)The study was conducted as a collaborative research project with 42 secondary science and social studies teachers in two school districts in eastern Kansas. Researchers and teachers met in a series of Cooperative Study ... -
Factors Inhibiting Personal Growth When Teaching Academically Diverse Classes
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)This study seeks to identify the factors that inhibit personal growth in teaching as teachers work to meet the needs of all students in academically diverse groups of learners. To identify these factors, researchers worked ... -
Efforts to Enhance Personal Growth When Teaching Academically Diverse Classes
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)This study was undertaken to identify what kinds of professional growth experiences teachers value within the context of the challenge presented by academic diversity in their classrooms. The research was carried out With ... -
Characteristics of Good Collegiality Among Secondary Social Studies and Science Teachers When Teaching Academically Diverse Classes
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1992-08-01)The purpose or this study was to explore with teachers the characteristics of good collegiality that would enhance teacher satisfaction and effectiveness in facing the challenges presented by teaching academically diverse ... -
Identification and Intervention Procedures for the Learning Disabled in the Earle C. Clements Job Corps Report
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-08-01)This report details the procedures and findings of a program to identify and to intervene with LD corps members at a Job Corps training- center. The findings indicate that a valid LD identification procedure was developed ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multipass: A Learning Strategy for Improving Academic Performance of LD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Multipass, a complex learning strategy for gaining information from textbook chapters, was taught !9 eight learning disabled adolescents. Students learned the strategy following the institution of training and generalized ... -
Error Monitoring: A Learning Strategy for Improving Academic Performance of LD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)Error monitoring, a learning strategy for detecting and correcting errors in written products, was taught to nine learning disabled adolescents. Students could detect and correct more errors after they received training ... -
A Comparison of Youths Who Have Committed Delinquent Acts with Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving, and Normally Achieving Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-12-01)This study compared a group of youths who had committed delinquent acts with LD, low-achieving, and normally-achieving adolescents. Youths who had committed delinquent acts most resembled the low-achieving group based on ... -
Parental and Staff Expectations for the Future Achievement of Learning Disabled Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-02-01)The results of this study indicated that: (a) the difference between the expectations of mothers and fathers of LD youth was generally insignificant in most areas of achievement, (b) in most areas of achievement, school ... -
A Comparison of Learning Disabled Adolescents with Specific Arithmetic and Reading Disabilities
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-01-01)Forty-three junior high learning disabilities programs were surveyed to identify students who were specifically disabled in either arithmetic or reading. The results indicated that students with a specific disability in ... -
Analysis of Cognitive Abilities of Adolescents Learning Disabled Specifically in Arithmetic Computation
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1980-01-01)This investigation identified a group of adolescents homogeneously defined as specifically learning disabled in arithmetic and examined whether cognitive processes measured by visual-spatial, visual-reasoning, and visual-memory ...