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Direct linkElder, Todd E.; Lubotsky, Darren H. – Journal of Human Resources, 2009
We present evidence that the positive relationship between kindergarten entrance age and school achievement primarily reflects skill accumulation prior to kindergarten, rather than a heightened ability to learn in school among older children. The association between achievement test scores and entrance age appears during the first months of…
Descriptors: Income, Grade Repetition, Learning Disabilities, Family Characteristics
Download full textJones, Lise Oen; Krumsvik, Rune – Online Submission, 2008
The topic in this paper is how former special needs students with academic competence from upper secondary school succeed in education on a higher level. The study concentrates on students who at their start in upper secondary education were registered with problems of concentration, difficulties in reading, writing or mathematics. The main part…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Special Needs Students, Curriculum Development, College Students
Peer reviewedKistner, Janet; Osborne, Mary – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1987
Developmental patterns of responses given by 34 school-identified learning disabled (LD) and 40 normally achieving (NA) students (ages 9-14) on the Perceived Competence Scale for Children were investigated. Although relatively more negative than the NA students, LD children did not become more negative about themselves over a two-year period.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities, Longitudinal Studies
Tomblin, J. Bruce – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2006
Research on learning disabilities (LD) depends upon a conceptual framework that specifies what it should explain, what kinds of data are needed, and how these data are to be arranged in order to provide a meaningful explanation. An argument is made that LD are no different in this respect than any other form of human illness. In this article, a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Language Impairments, Values, Kindergarten
van der Aalsvoort, Geerdina M. – Childhood Education, 2007
Inclusive education in the Dutch education system has achieved new meaning in the last decade or so. Until 1998, the Netherlands recognized 19 types of special education. Then, two Educational Acts were passed, in 1998 and 2003, that decreased the types of special education by including measures to enhance inclusion of students with special…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools, Learning Disabilities
Mulcahy, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Cognitive Education Project conducted a 3-year longitudinal evaluation of two cognitive education programs that were aimed at teaching thinking skills. The critical difference between the two experimental programs was that one, Feuerstein's Instrumental Enrichment (IE) method, was taught out of curricular content, while the other, the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cognitive Processes, Criteria, Elementary Education
