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Center for Research on Learning: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Training Junior High School LD Students to Use a Test-Taking Strategy
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-06-01)This study investigated whether or not regular classroom test scores of LD junior-high school students could be improved by training those students to use a a test-taking strategy. Results showed significantly higher ... -
The Effects Self-Regulation Training on the Academic Productivity of LD and NLD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)A self-regulation package was used to teach serf-control skills to 8 LD and 2 NLD adolescents in an experimental high school setting. These procedures were taught and reinforced in a series of student-teacher conferences. ... -
Effects of Three Conferencing Procedures on the Academic Productivity of LD and NLD Adolescents
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)The effects of teacher and parent conferencing procedures on lesson completion by LD and NLD adolescents in a learning center were investigated. Following teacher conferences, students showed initial increases; however, ... -
A Comparison of Formal Features of Oral Language of Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving and Achieving Secondary Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-08-01)The oral language skills of 20 LD, 18 low-achieving, and 20 achieving students in grades 7 through 10 were analyzed using a one-minute audiotaped discussion of general information topics. Results indicated that differences ... -
A Comparison of Formal Features of Written Language of Learning Disabled, Low-Achieving and Achieving Secondary Students
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1981-04-01)The written language characteristics of 26 learning disabled (LD), 26 low-achieving (LA) and 26 achieving (ACH) students in grades 7 through 10 were measured using paragraph-writing and topic-sentence tasks. findings ... -
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 ...