Teaching Middle School Students to Use a Test Taking Strategy (Mainstreaming, Learning Strategies, Generalization)

Twenty-eight sixth grade students were instructed in SCORER, a test taking strategy. Ten of these students were among the poorest comprehenders in their class, with an average percentile score on the reading comprehension section of the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT) of 22 (range = 2 to 44). The remaining 18 students scored above average (mean = 76, range = 58 to 99). For a near-generalization measure, three pretest and posttest measures were administered to the experimental group and to a control group, matched on the MAT score. A second set of pretest and posttest measures, used as the far-generalization indicator, were also obtained; these were test scores from the students' science class.

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Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Ritter, Shirley Ann

• Education, Special

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(UMI)AAI8511665

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68981