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Winchester, Katherine; Darch, Craig; Eaves, Ronald C.; Shippen, Margaret E.; Ern, Greg; Bell, Bedarius – Journal of Direct Instruction, 2009
We compared two approaches to teaching United States history to students with learning disabilities (LD). We randomly assigned students in seventh through ninth grades (n = 44) to separate treatment groups (strategy-based instruction or traditional instruction). In both approaches, students were taught identical content on two units of the Civil…
Descriptors: United States History, Learning Disabilities, War, Instructional Effectiveness
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Munoz, Marco A. – Planning and Changing, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of Ramp Up to Advanced Literacy, an unbundled Comprehensive School Reform (CSR) model, on the reading achievement of ninth grade students in a large urban school district in Kentucky. Using a pre- and posttest impact evaluation design, data from participating and non-participating…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Reading Achievement, Grade 9
Bayrak, Bekir; Kanli, Uygar; Ingec, Sebnem Kandil – Online Submission, 2007
In this study, the research problem was: "Is the computer based physics instruction as effective as laboratory intensive physics instruction with regards to academic success on electric circuits 9th grade students?" For this research of experimental quality the design of pre-test and post-test are applied with an experiment and a control…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Physics