ERIC Number: ED572694
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011-Aug
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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Do Special Education Interventions Improve Learning of Secondary Content? A Meta-Analysis. Research to Practice. Structured Abstract No. 80
Dragoo, Kyrie
National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities
This is a structured abstract of a meta-analysis conducted by T. E. Scruggs, M. A. Mastropieri, S. Berkeley, and J. E. Graetz, published in "Remedial & Special Education" (2009). The authors of the original paper describe findings from a research synthesis on content area instruction for students with disabilities. Seventy studies were identified from a comprehensive literature search, examined, and coded for a number of variables, including weighted standardized mean-difference effect sizes. More than 2,400 secondary school students were participants in these investigations. Studies included interventions involving content areas, such as science, social studies, and English, and employed a number of different interventions, including study aids, classroom learning strategies, spatial and graphic organizers, mnemonic strategies, hands-on activities, classroom peers, and computer-assisted instruction. The overall effect size was 1.00, indicating an overall large effect across studies. Implications for future research and practice are described. [For "Do Special Education Interventions Improve Learning of Secondary Content? A Meta-Analysis," see EJ904253.]
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Special Education, Intervention, Mild Intellectual Disability, Emotional Disturbances, Developmental Delays, Regular and Special Education Relationship, Special Education Teachers, Effect Size, Middle School Students, Junior High School Students, High School Students
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Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Junior High Schools; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS)
Authoring Institution: National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY); FHI 360
Grant or Contract Numbers: H326N030008
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