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Direct linkMead, Tim P.; Roark, Susan; Larive, Lane J.; Percle, Kristen C.; Auenson, Rachel N. – Physical Educator, 2013
With tightening school budgets and continued emphasis on core subject standardized testing, physical education often takes a backseat to academic areas that school administrators deem more important. Much time is spent using improvement strategies in the classroom that do not involve exercise. Two hundred eighty-five sixth to eighth grade students…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Norm Referenced Tests, Physical Education, Reading Comprehension
Scheithauer, Mindy C.; Tiger, Jeffrey H. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2012
Instructors of the visually impaired need efficient braille-training methods. This study conducted a preliminary evaluation of a computer-based program intended to teach the relation between braille characters and English letters using a matching-to-sample format with 4 sighted college students. Each participant mastered matching visual depictions…
Descriptors: Training Methods, Blindness, Braille, College Students
Johnny W. Morgan – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The primary purpose of this study was to determine the influence of selected demographic characteristics on the reading ability of fourth-grade students in Louisiana. The dependent variable for this study was reading ability of fourth-grade students. Independent variables were demographic characteristics as measured by reading achievement (overall…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Reading Ability
Damico, Jack S.; Nelson, Ryan L.; Damico, Holly; Abendroth, Kathleen; Scott, Jennifer – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2008
Employing an interactional analysis and focusing on the complexity of meaning making, this study investigates the uses of several types of avoidance strategies generated by a language-disordered boy who is struggling with literacy. The results suggest that these avoidance strategies may function as compensatory adaptations that assist him in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Males, Preadolescents, Literacy
Download full textLouisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1998
This executive summary reports on the number of students not reading on grade level in all second and third grades throughout Louisiana. The report notes the provisions of the legislation that requires such data be generated, and discusses selection of the Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) as the uniform assessment instrument to be…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Grade 2, Grade 3, Primary Education
Carr, Sonya C. – 1991
This study compared the reading comprehension abilities of learning disabled (LD) students with the performance of both their age-peers and their reading-level peers. Subjects were 16 seventh- and eighth-grade LD students, 16 normal achieving eighth graders, and 16 normal achieving fifth graders. To assess the use of prior knowledge under varying…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 5, Grade 7, Grade 8
