Timed essay writing: implications for high-stakes tests.

abstract：:The goal of the current study was to compare two forms of dynamic assessment and standard assessment of preschool children's phonological awareness. The first form of dynamic assessment was a form of scaffolding in which item formats were modified in response to an error so as to make the task easier or more explicit....

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Thatcher Kantor P,Wagner RK,Torgesen JK,Rashotte CA

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Concept mapping (a mixed qualitative-quantitative methodology) was used to describe and understand the psychosocial experiences of adults with confirmed and self-identified dyslexia. Using innovative processes of art and photography, Phase 1 of the study included 15 adults who participated in focus groups and in-depth...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Nalavany BA,Carawan LW,Rennick RA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this qualitative multicase study was to explore the perceptions of individuals who could speak from both sides of the special education desk--as students and as teachers. The three participants for this study each received special education services for learning disabilities while in school and were cur...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Ferri BA,Keefe CH,Gregg N

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a review of contemporary models of word-level processing for reading and their limitations, we propose a new hypothetical model of Chinese character reading, namely, the graded lexical space mapping model that characterizes how sublexical radicals and lexical information are involved in Chinese character rea...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Tong X,McBride C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the ways that computers can support writing by students with learning disabilities, with an emphasis applications that go beyond word processing. Following an overview of research on word processing is a discussion of software assists with the basic processes of transcription and sentence generati...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： MacArthur CA

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the patterns of reading and spelling performance of first-grade Greek children who either were facing difficulties in literacy acquisition or were normal achievers. In addition, we studied the relationship between obtained literacy development levels and the children's phonological awareness and ab...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Porpodas CD

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescents with and without learning disabilities (14, 16, and 18 years old) were tested to determine whether they differed in auditory, visual, and/or multisensory (combined auditory/visual) social perception abilities. Differences between the two groups in growth of auditory, visual, and multisensory social-percept...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Sisterhen DH,Gerber PJ

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have yielded mixed findings as to the effect of learning disabilities (LD) on self-perception. We proposed that perceived competence in children who experience learning difficulties is affected both by age trends in self-appraisal processes and by the degree to which students' salient reference group ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Butler R,Marinov-Glassman D

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Text-to-speech and related read-aloud tools are being widely implemented in an attempt to assist students' reading comprehension skills. Read-aloud software, including text-to-speech, is used to translate written text into spoken text, enabling one to listen to written text while reading along. It is not clear how eff...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Wood SG,Moxley JH,Tighe EL,Wagner RK

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study addresses the distinction between specific (SLI) and nonspecific (NLI) language impairment at an etiological level by estimating the relative genetic and environmental contributions to language impairment in children with SLI and NLI. Drawing on a large longitudinal twin study, we tested a sample of ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Hayiou-Thomas ME,Oliver B,Plomin R

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article provides a snapshot of how all 50 states are progressing with the development and implementation of response-to-intervention (RtI) models 1 year after the final regulations for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act were passed. Data were collected through a review of existing state department of...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Berkeley S,Bender WN,Gregg Peaster L,Saunders L

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to analyze whether children with and without difficulties in handwriting, spelling, or both differed in alphabet writing when using a keyboard. The total sample consisted of 1,333 children from Grades 1 through 3. Scores on the spelling and handwriting factors from the Early Grade Writing Ass...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Bisschop E,Morales C,Gil V,Jiménez-Suárez E

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we tested the outcomes of access to a response to intervention (RtI) model in kindergarten or in first grade on end-of-Grade-2 reading achievement and placement in special education. Across five schools, 214 students who began having access to Tier 2 intervention in kindergarten or first grade were comp...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： O'Connor RE,Bocian KM,Sanchez V,Beach KD

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Students with learning disabilities have received services in special education programs for many years. Unfortunately, many of these students continue to need services after they exit high schools. Vocational rehabilitation has begun to provide services for young adults with learning disabilities; however, there cont...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Dowdy CA,Smith TE,Nowell CH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent research suggests that most 4-year college students diagnosed with specific learning disability (SLD) do not meet objective criteria for the disorder, show normative deficits in academic skills, or have childhood histories of SLD. The purpose of this study was to examine the functioning of students diagnosed wi...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Weis R,Speridakos EC,Ludwig K

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on some of the linguistic components that underlie letter-sound decoding skills and reading comprehension: specifically phonology, morphology, and syntax. Many children who have reading difficulties had language deficits that were detectable before they began reading. Early identification of langu...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： van der Lely HK,Marshall CR

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article synthesizes the literature comparing at-risk children designated as responders and low responders to interventions in reading. The central question addressed in this review is whether individual differences in reading-related skills at pretest predict responders at posttest across a variety of interventio...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Tran L,Sanchez T,Arellano B,Lee Swanson H

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Last semester, while concluding an autobiography for a class assignment, the author came to the realization that being a person with a learning disability constitutes a strong connection to people of other minority groups. This article will develop that theme, searching relevant issues through applied sociological pri...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Coughlin D

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of reading speed in Italian children with dyslexia was estimated using individualized growth curves for a group of 38 children with dyslexia tested longitudinally from the second to the eighth grade and compared with typical readers. Their reading speed development followed a linear trend of .3 syllabl...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Tressoldi PE,Stella G,Faggella M

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of boys and girls with or without learning disabilities to social failure was examined. Children participated in two dyadic interactions with experimental confederates: an unfriendly interaction and a friendly one. The children's behavior was videotaped, and they answered questions following each interact...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Settle SA,Milich R

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of children with dyslexia (mean ages 9 and 14 years) was studied, together with group of children without dyslexia matched for age. Participants were monolingual native speakers of the Bosnian language with transparent orthography. In total, the diagnostic tests were performed with 41 children with dyslexia an...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Duranovic M,Sehic S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to assess whether the effects of computer-assisted practice on visual word recognition differed for children with reading disabilities (RD) with or without aptitude-achievement discrepancy. A sample of 73 Spanish children with low reading performance was selected using the discrepancy method, b...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Jiménez JE,del Rosario Ortiz M,Rodrigo M,Hernández-Valle I,Ramírez G,Estévez A,O'Shanahan I,de la Luz Trabaue M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the use of self-monitoring procedures to increase the number of daily homework assignments completed by eight students with learning disabilities. Students ranged in age from 13 to 16 years and attended Grades 7 through 10. The experimental procedure involved the use of a sheet listing all daily...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Trammel DL,Schloss PJ,Alper S

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several national reports have suggested the usefulness of systematic, explicit, synthetic phonics instruction based on English word structure along with wide reading of quality literature for supporting development in early reading instruction. Other studies have indicated, however, that many in-service teachers are n...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Joshi RM,Binks E,Hougen M,Dahlgren ME,Ocker-Dean E,Smith DL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of a peer teaching procedure, combined with student letter-writing activities, on the acquisition and generalization of capitalization skills. Three students, aged 9 years, obtained instruction from peer partners that included (a) an introduction and review of capitalization rules, ...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Campbell BJ,Brady MP,Linehan S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A synthesis of the extant research on peer-mediated reading and math interventions for students in regular or alternative education settings with academic difficulties and disabilities in Grades 6 to 12 (ages 11-18) is presented. Interventions conducted between 2001 and 2012 targeting reading and math were included if...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Wexler J,Reed DK,Pyle N,Mitchell M,Barton EE

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although dyslexia runs in families, several putative risk factors that cannot be immediately identified as genetic predict reading disability. Published studies analyzed one or a few risk factors at a time, with relatively inconsistent results. To assess the contribution of several putative risk factors to the develop...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Mascheretti S,Marino C,Simone D,Quadrelli E,Riva V,Cellino MR,Maziade M,Brombin C,Battaglia M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to understand and produce coherent text structure was assessed across three groups of college writers, normally achieving, learning disabled, and underprepared. It was found that college writers with learning disabilities were more like the normally achieving writers on an assessment of comprehension of te...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Gregg N,Hoy C

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visuospatial working memory and its involvement in arithmetic were examined in two groups of 7- to 11-year-olds: one comprising children described by teachers as displaying symptoms of nonverbal learning difficulties (N = 21), the other a control group without learning disabilities (N = 21). The two groups were matche...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： Mammarella IC,Lucangeli D,Cornoldi C

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to examine the role of achievement in explaining the poor social and behavioral functioning associated with LD status, and to evaluate potential gender differences in patterns of interpersonal functioning among youth with learning disabilities (LD) and nondisabled (NLD) youth. Thir...

journal_title：Journal of learning disabilities

authors： La Greca AM,Stone WL

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00