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MacArthur, Charles A.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Intermediate grade students with learning disabilities learned to work in pairs to help each other with editing and revising of their compositions. The 13 subjects made more revisions and produced papers of higher quality when revising with peer support than did 16 students in a process-approach control group. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities
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Prater, Doris L.; Bermudez, Andrea B. – Bilingual Research Journal, 1993
Effects of heterogeneous peer response groups (heterogeneous for language proficiency and ability) on the writing of limited-English-proficient (LEP) students was investigated in fourth-grade language arts classes. After one month, significant improvements on two measures of fluency were found for LEP students assigned to peer response groups, but…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, English (Second Language), Grade 4, Heterogeneous Grouping