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Secondary Assessment: Structuring the Transition Process.
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Spruill, Jo Anna – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1993
This article presents a comprehensive model for assessment of secondary students with disabilities. The model is intended to comply with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which requires identifying transition needs of students in their individualized education programs. The model assists in structuring an outcome-oriented transition…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Federal Legislation
Increasing Strategic Reading Practice with Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring.
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Mathes, Patricia G.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1994
Peabody Classwide Peer Tutoring is presented as an innovative, research-based instructional alternative that gives teachers greater flexibility to accommodate diversity while increasing students' opportunity to engage actively in meaningful, strategy-based reading practice. During 35-minute tutoring sessions, students participate in partner…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Peer Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Learning Disabled Readers' Comprehension of Computer Mediated Text: The Influence of Working Memory, Metacognition and Attribution.
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Swanson, H. Lee; Trahan, Marcille F. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Learning-disabled and average readers (n=120) from grades four through six completed comprehension questions under one of four treatment conditions. Results indicated that computer-mediated text was no better than off-line conditions in improving learning-disabled readers' comprehension. Attribution and metacognitive sophistication were…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Computer Oriented Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Effects of Grade Level and Educational Setting on Behaviors of Beginning Learning Disabilities Teachers.
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Sutton, Joe P.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Comparison of teaching behaviors across grade level and educational setting (resource and self-contained) of 65 beginning teachers found main effects for both grade level and educational setting including that elementary teachers provided more transitions between instructional activities and that teachers in self-contained settings exhibited more…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Effects of Modeling in Promoting Generalization of Student Question Asking and Question Answering.
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Knapczyk, Dennis – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Videotaped segments from a regular education world geography class were used in teaching three learning-disabled ninth grade students to generalize question-asking and answering skills. Training procedures implemented in a learning resource room were effective in improving generalization of target skills and increasing accuracy scores on…
Descriptors: Generalization, Geography Instruction, Junior High Schools, Learning Disabilities
Teaching Techniques for the Learning Disabled/Gifted Student.
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Waldron, Karen A. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Through a review of the literature, recent research, and implementation results, this article explores teaching methods for use with gifted students with learning disabilities. Methods for application in regular and special classrooms are discussed, including establishment of relationships between home and school life, individualized intervention…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gifted Disabled, Individualized Education Programs, Intervention