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From:School Psychology Review (Vol. 32, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. The current study investigated the extent to which considering instructional time and student learning rate affects academic treatment decisions. Five second-grade students with difficulties in spelling were...
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From:Technology & Learning (Vol. 25, Issue 7)Seventeen-year-old Ali, who moved to America from Pakistan at age 10, was lost in the large urban environment of the New York City public schools. He was unmotivated and uninterested in learning more than just the...
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From:Adolescence (Vol. 28, Issue 109) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigated potential correlates of academic achievement, including self-concept, extracurricular activities, family environment, and gender. Findings indicated that while self-concept and academic...
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From:Australian Journal of Language and Literacy (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Identifying students who are at risk for poor progress in literacy, and choosing appropriate intervention strategies are major evolving tasks in education. A group of students who are at risk for making...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough the general slowing hypothesis of language impairment (LI) is well established, the conventional method to test the hypothesis is controversial. This paper compares the usual method, ordinary least squares...
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From:School Psychology Review (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. This study examined the effects of teacher feedback from Reading Curriculum-Based Measurement (R-CBM) progress results for low-performing students in general education classrooms. Participants included 44...
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From:Journal of Research in Childhood Education (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedEducators often trust instincts and beliefs more than research evidence. We make assumptions based on what we think happens or what we think works, with little or no data to support that thinking. However, when we make...
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From:High School Journal (Vol. 90, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article reports a project undertaken in a Caribbean high school among 17 students in a low stream Year 3 class of reluctant readers (mostly boys) who had been experiencing repeated failure. The project, aimed at...
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From:Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (Vol. 45, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAccording to the Auxiliary Clarification Hypothesis (ACH), yes-no questions with sentence-initial auxiliaries (i.e., inverted questions) facilitate children's initial acquisition of auxiliary verbs. Sixteen 3-year-old...
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From:Reading Improvement (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRemediation programs have helped some struggling children learn to read and write. However, they have not been helpful to all students. Educators need to search for more effective ways of reaching even more learners....
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From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 110, Issue 6)When a child with special needs having difficulties, it is sometimes hard to isolate the source of the problem. Teachers may benefit greatly by asking the questions below. Perhaps you will find something here,...
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From:The Reading Teacher (Vol. 63, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedMason (a pseudonym) had been in my first-grade class for several months and was making slow progress. He would appear to know something, then suddenly he would not. Mason was a challenging student, and it was clear to...
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From:Exceptional Children (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article summarizes lessons learned from a formative evaluation of one attempt to implement inclusion of students with mild to moderate mental impairment (MMMI) in general classes in a suburban middle school. We...
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From:The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOne of the major issues facing schools today is the problem of distinguishing genuine learning problems from students who come from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Differences in culture can act as...
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From:Learning & Leading with Technology (Vol. 31, Issue 2)Subject: Language arts Audience: Teachers, teacher educators, technology coordinators. library media specialists Grade Level: K-12 (Ages 5-18) Technology: Internet/Web Standards: NETS*S 3, 5 (http://...
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From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed"Hey, Dr. Dennis, you know what I think? Just because I don't always understand what I read doesn't mean I'm stupid."--Javaar, sixth-grade student Javaar (all student names are pseudonyms) made this statement after I...
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From:Black History Bulletin (Vol. 70, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"Hanging is the suspension of a person by a ligature, usually a cord wrapped around the neck, causing death. Throughout history it has been used as a form of capital punishment." (1) More specifically, in the United...
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From:Instructor (1990) (Vol. 114, Issue 1)DEPENDING ON A TEACHER'S high or low expectations, a child may take one of two paths. Joey, a first grader whose teacher labeled him "slow," "disinterested," and "uncooperative," was one such child. What might happen as...
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From:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Vol. 34, Issue 1)A KEYBOARD THAT'S COLOR-CODED and arranged alphabetically. An audio book that lets users hear what they're reading--at several speeds. A 21-inch wand that can be used to manipulate objects on an interactive whiteboard....