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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 ... -
Social Skills Training: A Generalization Study
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-08-01)The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability of role-playing as a device for assessing generalization of social skills training and to determine the extent to which LD adolescents generalize specific social ... -
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 ... -
A Mandated Minimum Competency Testing Program and Its Impact on Learning Disabled Students: Curricular Validity and Comparative Performances
(Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities, 1982-06-01)In this study, LD specialists, regular class teachers, and parents of LD students judged that the objectives of the Kansas Minimum Competency Specifications prescribed for nonhandicapped students were applicable to LD ... -
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 ...