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Reading comprehension is an essential skill for success in school and post-school life. However, despite the importance of this skill, a considerable number of students in the U.S. have shown difficulties in reading comprehension....
The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
College student veterans may experience a variety of challenges as they transition from military life to student life, including adjusting to the academic environment, coping with mental health concerns such as depression and anxiety, ...
The purpose of this secondary data analysis study was to investigate the possible association between the use of behavior management strategies by interventionists in kindergarten small-group interventions and the self-regulation of the...
Have you ever noticed when you are hungry and looking for something to eat, you can smell the freshly salted fries of McDonalds before seeing the golden arches? That is because our sense of smell, olfaction, is intimately linked with...
Nonmainstream American English, or dialect, among children may have important implications for reading research and practice. The purpose of this dissertation study was to examine dialect use in various language contexts and to...
Within RTI models, Tier 1 instruction represents an important foundation for the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties, but has largely been ignored in previous RTI research. This study examined the amount, type, and quality...
The gap in academic achievement between English learners (ELs) and their monolingual peers is of increasing concern in the United States. Despite efforts to identify effective strategies to support ELs’ development and reduce this...
The purpose of this study was to explore the development of second graders' spelling knowledge across the academic year using a researcher developed, word-dictated spelling test administered in fall, winter, and spring of second grade....
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of linguistic knowledge in spelling by analyzing spelling errors made by 220 students in the fourth, fifth, and seventh grades. A 25-word researcher-designed spelling test with...
Reading comprehension emerges as an important skill set in the early elementary grades. It is supported by component skills including decoding, linguistic knowledge including vocabulary and syntactic knowledge, as well as more complex, ...
Autism can be reliably diagnosed at 18-24 months; however, the average age of diagnosis remains at 4-5 years, which is relatively high in relation to the earliest age at which it can be accurately diagnosed. This gap in diagnosis...
Colleges and universities are experiencing a growing level of distress on their campuses. Counseling centers have implemented preventive efforts, such as suicide prevention outreach, to avert crisis situations that are potentially life...
Narrative writing samples were collected and analyzed for a total sample size of 826 students (413 twin pairs; 159 monozygotic and 524 dizygotic pairs) from the Florida Twin Project on Behavior and Environment (FTP-BE) database who...
One in five youth suffer from mental illness, and even more experience subclinical symptoms, yet this pathologic focus ignores factors of mental health that contribute to flourishing. The vast majority of research on emotional...
Reading and Vocabulary Value-Added Scores and Literacy Teaching Quality Investigating the Relationship Between 2nd Grade Teachers' Value-Added Scores and Teaching Quality
Teacher quality has emerged as a key factor influencing the success of students, both academically, and beyond. The national discussion of teacher quality focuses on determining which teachers are effective and how best to determine...
Individuals with developmental language disorders experience an array of challenges that persist from childhood into adulthood, highlighting the need for advancements in early detection and intervention for this population. The...
Testlets bring several perks in the development and administration of tests, such as 1) the construction of meaningful test items, 2) the avoidance of non-relevant context exposure, 3) the improvement of testing efficiency, and 4) the...
College students with ADHD are an understudied population. Reading comprehension difficulties are common among those with ADHD. Research is limited addressing reading comprehension abilities among college students with ADHD. This study...
This research addressed the early reading instruction of students with cognitive impairments included in general education kindergarten classrooms. Research from 2002 to 2011 on early reading instruction for students with mental...
Social class is an important construct throughout the social sciences but has not received nearly as much attention in the management literature as it has in other fields. As a result, there is relatively little information regarding the...
Talent development and performance are two commonly investigated areas of psychological research, yet a minimal number of studies have been conducted that examine the specific factors that contribute to the development and performance of...
The purpose of this study was to address the utility of curriculum-based measurements of written expression (CBM-W) for predicting writing growth longitudinally and address the extent to which CBM-W relate to other academic and behavior...
This study is a secondary analysis on a larger study that was conducted by Al Otaiba and colleagues (2011). The participants include 170 students that participated in Tier 2 and 3 intervention during a school year. The primary purpose of...
The purpose of this study is to examine how disabilities in adolescence are associated with employment outcomes in young adulthood. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), I analyze the...
The Effects of Virtual-Representational-Abstract (VRA) Intervention Package on the Acquisition of Single-Digit Addition Skills for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Research has shown the acquisition of strong foundational skills (including counting and calculations) is linked to successful outcomes in higher level mathematics and post-school experiences (Jordan, Glutting, & Ramineni, 2010). However...
In an effort to better understand the language environments of early childhood education (ECE) classrooms with varying proportions of dual language learners (DLLs), we examined the frequency in which adults use various language...
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