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Effects of a Computerized Program on Use of the Test-Taking Strategy by Secondary Students with Disabilities
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Lancaster, Paula E.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Lancaster, Sean J. C.; Deshler, Donald D. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2009
Students with disabilities must meet many testing demands, given the current emphasis on accountability and state competency testing. The purpose of this project was to develop and field test a computerized program to teach the Test-Taking Strategy (Hughes, Schumaker, Deshler, & Mercer, 1988) to secondary-level students with disabilities. The…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Quasiexperimental Design, Protocol Analysis, Learning Disabilities
The Effects of Instruction in an Inference Strategy on the Reading Comprehension Skills of Adolescents with Disabilities
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Fritschmann, Nanette Salim; Deshler, Donald D.; Schumaker, Jean Bragg – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of teaching eight secondary students with disabilities, including seven with learning disabilities, a strategy for answering a variety of inferential questions. A multiple-baseline across-subjects design was employed. Outcome measures included scores on researcher-devised comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Learning Disabilities, Standardized Tests, Secondary School Students
The Efficacy of an Interactive Hypermedia Program for Teaching a Test-Taking Strategy to Students with High-Incidence Disabilities
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Lancaster, Paula E.; Lancaster, Sean J. C.; Schumaker, Jean B.; Deshler, Donald D. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2006
Increased demand for accountability in the public schools has led to an increase in the number of testing situations for all students, including students with disabilities. The purpose of this project was to develop and validate an interactive hypermedia (IH) program to teach a test-taking strategy to secondary-level students with disabilities.…
Descriptors: Hypermedia, Behavior Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Test Wiseness