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Danielle O. Lariviere; Sarah R. Powell; Anna-Maria Fall; Greg Roberts; Tessa L. Arsenault – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2025
We examined how generalized and mathematics-specific language skills predicted the word-problem performance of students with mathematics difficulty. Participants were 325 third-grade students in the southwestern United States who performed at or below the 25th percentile on a word-problem measure. We assessed generalized language skills in word…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 3, Elementary School Students
Sarah R. Powell; Katherine A. Berry; Anasazi N. Acunto; Anna-Maria Fall; Greg Roberts – Grantee Submission, 2022
The purpose of this pilot study was to determine whether positive results from a word-problem intervention implemented one-to-one contributed to similar outcomes when implemented in small groups of three to four students. Third-grade students experiencing mathematics difficulty (n = 76) were randomly assigned to word-problem intervention (n = 56)…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction, Small Group Instruction, Intervention
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Fuchs, Lynn S.; Powell, Sarah R.; Seethaler, Pamela M.; Cirino, Paul T.; Fletcher, Jack M.; Fuchs, Douglas; Hamlett, Carol L.; Zumeta, Rebecca O. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
The purposes of this study were to assess the efficacy of remedial tutoring for 3rd graders with mathematics difficulty, to investigate whether tutoring is differentially efficacious depending on students' math difficulty status (mathematics difficulty alone vs. mathematics plus reading difficulty), to explore transfer from number combination (NC)…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 3, Algebra