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Reliability and Relationship to Retention of Assessing an Acquisition Rate for Sight Words with Kindergarten Students
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Taylor, Crystal N.; Aguilar, Lisa; Burns, Matthew K.; Preast, June L.; Warmbold-Brann, Kristy – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
Teaching children too many words during a lesson reduces retention. The amount of new information a student can successfully rehearse and recall later is called acquisition rate (AR), which has been reliably measured with students in first, third, and fifth grades. The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability of assessing AR for sight…
Descriptors: Reliability, Sight Vocabulary, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Enhancing Maintenance and Generalization of Sight Words Taught with Incremental Rehearsal: Applying the Depth of Processing and Generalization Frameworks
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Petersen-Brown, Shawna; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology, 2019
Incremental rehearsal (IR) is a flashcard technique that has produced strong effects for a variety of outcomes including word recognition. We utilized theory-based modifications to IR to enhance maintenance and generalization of sight words. We utilized a within-subjects design in which 41 participants in 2nd and 3rd grade were taught seven…
Descriptors: Instructional Materials, Word Recognition, Sight Vocabulary, Maintenance
Comparing the Effects of Incremental Rehearsal and Traditional Drill on Retention of Mathematics Facts and Predicting the Effects with Memory
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Burns, Matthew K.; Aguilar, Lisa N.; Young, Helen; Preast, June L.; Taylor, Crystal N.; Walsh, Allison D. – School Psychology, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of Incremental Rehearsal (IR) and traditional drill (TD) on retention of multiplication facts with 29 students in third and fourth grades with low mathematical skills. Results indicated that IR led to significantly more facts being retained, and was essentially equal to TD for efficiency as…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction
A Comparison of Two Flashcard Drill Methods Targeting Word Recognition
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Volpe, Robert J.; Mule, Christina M.; Briesch, Amy M.; Joseph, Laurice M.; Burns, Matthew K. – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2011
Traditional drill and practice (TD) and incremental rehearsal (IR) are two flashcard drill instructional methods previously noted to improve word recognition. The current study sought to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of these two methods, as assessed by next day retention assessments, under 2 conditions (i.e., opportunities to respond…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Instructional Materials, Sight Method, Reading Instruction
Adding a Vocabulary Component to Incremental Rehearsal to Enhance Retention and Generalization
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Petersen-Brown, Shawna; Burns, Matthew K. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2011
The current study investigates the effect of adding a semantic component, in the form of vocabulary, to the incremental rehearsal (IR) procedure. Sixty-one second- and third-grade students in a suburban elementary school were randomly assigned to one of two conditions: IR or IR with vocabulary. Each participant was taught seven previously unknown…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Grade 1, Grade 3, Reading Comprehension
Analogue Evaluation of the Effects of Opportunities to Respond and Ratios of Known Items within Drill Rehearsal of Esperanto Words
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Szadokierski, Isadora; Burns, Matthew K. – Journal of School Psychology, 2008
Drill procedures have been used to increase the retention of various types of information, but little is known about the causal mechanisms of these techniques. The current study compared the effect of two key features of drill procedures, a large number of opportunities to respond (OTR) and a drill ratio that maintains a high percentage of known…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Statistical Analysis, Grade 4, Drills (Practice)