Understanding and Accessing Standards-Based Mathematics for Students With Mathematics Difficulties

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asha K. Jitendra
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Mathematics Interventions ◽  
Mathematics Difficulties

In this introduction to the special issue, the author provides a brief overview of (a) standards-based mathematics and implications for students with learning disabilities and those at risk for mathematics difficulties and (b) research on mathematics interventions/instructional practices and student outcomes. Furthermore, the author highlights how the articles in this special issue address these areas. The article concludes with a description of the purposes of this special issue.

Motivating Instruction? There’s an App for That!

2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Bruhn ◽  
Shanna Hirsch ◽  
Kari Vogelgesang
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Behavior Disorders ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Motivation And Engagement ◽  
Best Instructional Practices

Keeping students engaged in the curriculum is extremely important when attempting to close the achievement gap for students with and at risk for disabilities. This is particularly important for students with learning disabilities or behavior disorders. This article discusses the use of applications (apps) for mobile technologies that may be used to motivate and thus engage students in the classroom by supporting best instructional practices. These apps are matched to specific strategies that researchers have suggested for increasing motivation and engagement.

Teaching the Scientific Method to At-Risk Students and Students with Learning Disabilities Through Concept Anchoring and Explicit Instruction

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer A. McCleery ◽  
Gerald A. Tindal
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Explicit Instruction ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Classroom Observations ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Classroom Activities ◽  
Hands On

Increased attention is being devoted to the development of science literacy as repeated findings demonstrate students' lack of scientific understanding. To provide all students an opportunity to become science-literate, significant changes have been proposed in both the content being addressed and the instructional practices being used in teaching science. In this study, we manipulated both of these facets to teach the scientific method to at-risk students and students with learning disabilities. The content was framed with concepts and principles, and instruction was explicit, using rules to guide classroom activities. A combination of classroom observations and problem-solving tasks yielded significant differences between students taught with this enhanced approach over that achieved when instruction simply provided hands-on constructivistic activities not anchored to concepts or not explicitly delivered through rules.

Sentence-Level Gist: Literacy Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities in Co-Taught Classrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 105345122094437
Author(s):  
Marney S. Pollack ◽  
Alexandra Shelton ◽  
Erin Clancy ◽  
Christopher J. Lemons
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Identification Strategy ◽  
Main Idea Identification

Several strategies that demonstrate promise are available for educators to improve reading comprehension outcomes for students. However, some students, including students with and at risk for learning disabilities, require more intensive supports to develop proficiency in reading comprehension. To support these students, teachers must intensify instruction. This article describes an intensive main idea identification strategy, sentence-level gist, for teachers to use with students with persistent reading comprehension difficulties in the co-taught classroom. The sentence-level gist strategy requires students to determine the subject and important words in each sentence and then synthesize this information to write a main idea statement for a section of a text.

Implementation Fidelity and the Design of a Fractions Intervention

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindy Crawford ◽  
Barbara Freeman ◽  
Jacqueline Huscroft-D’Angelo ◽  
Sarah Quebec Fuentes ◽  
Kristina N. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Implementation Fidelity ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Mathematics Intervention ◽  
Tier Ii ◽  
Higher Order Learning ◽  
And Mathematics

Interventions are implemented with greater fidelity when their core intent is made explicit. The core intent of this intervention was to increase access to higher order learning opportunities for students with learning disabilities or difficulties in mathematics through use of research and practice from the fields of special education and mathematics education. Four steps undertaken in the development of a Tier II fraction-based mathematics intervention designed to improve the conceptual understanding of students with learning disabilities or difficulties are described in this article: (a) articulation of a logic model, (b) delineation of intervention components, (c) analysis of reliability data related to implementation fidelity, and (d) pilot testing to measure implementation fidelity and student outcomes. Results of the pilot study demonstrated no significant effect for the component of technology; however, significant pre–post differences were found in the performance of all groups on their conceptual understanding of fractions as numbers.

Improving Fluency in At-Risk Readers and Students with Learning Disabilities

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose M. Allinder ◽  
Lynette Dunse ◽  
Cynthia D. Brunken ◽  
Heidi J. Obermiller-Krolikowski
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities

Writing and Writing Difficulties From Primary Grades to College

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Graham ◽  
Tracey E. Hall
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Writing Difficulties ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Considerable Difficulty ◽  
Students With Ld

In today’s world, writing is an essential skill. At school, writing is often used to gauge students’ understanding of content material as well as to promote the learning of it. Students with learning disabilities (LD) and those at risk for writing difficulties experience considerable difficulty with almost every aspect of writing. The field of LD is developing a reasonable foundation of knowledge about what and how students with LD and those at risk for LD write. The articles in this series contribute to our growing knowledge of how students with LD struggle with the writing process and can benefit from evidence-based practices, beginning in elementary school and continuing into college. The purpose of this article is to introduce the special series on writing and writing difficulties. Three of the articles are included in this issue, and the two remaining articles will appear in the next issue. This introduction provides readers with the rationale for the series, the purpose of each article, and a brief overview of each contribution.

Current Knowledge and Future Directions: Proportional Reasoning Interventions for Students with Learning Disabilities and Mathematics Difficulties

2020 ◽  
pp. 073194872093285
Author(s):  
Gena Nelson ◽  
Jessica H. Hunt ◽  
Kristi Martin ◽  
Blain Patterson ◽  
Andy Khounmeuang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Proportional Reasoning ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Mathematics Difficulties ◽  
Students With Ld ◽  
And Mathematics

The purpose of this systematic review was to examine the effectiveness of proportional reasoning interventions for students with learning disabilities (LD) or mathematics difficulty (MD). We evaluated fifth to ninth grade interventions on proportional reasoning content, instructional features, and disability and difficulty identification. The nine studies met inclusion criteria yielded intervention effects ranging from g = −0.10 to 1.87 and from Tau- U = 0.88 to 1.00. Two of the nine studies were deemed high quality and very few studies included participants with LD. Although most studies identified the concepts addressed in the interventions, authors rarely provided in-depth descriptions of how the concept was taught. The results suggest that proportional reasoning interventions for students with LD and MD is under investigated. We posit that intervention research in proportional reasoning can and should be expanded upon and offer suggestions in terms of how researchers can continue to develop the knowledge base.

Style Over Substance Reconsidered: Intrusive Intervention and At-Risk Students with Learning Disabilities

2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Abelman ◽  
Anthony Molina
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
At Risk Students ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Probationary Students ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

In two recent publications, we reported that the academic intervention process, not the specific intervention content, was responsible for a short-and long-term influx in at-risk student performance (grade-point average) and persistence (retention). All at-risk students who participated in the most intrusive of three interventions had higher cumulative grade-point averages and retention rates than those who received less intrusive interventions. In this post hoc analysis, we looked at probationary students with learning disabilities and found that they are only responsive to the individual attention and personalized accommodation provided under a highly intrusive model, and the impact is temporary.

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