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Usability And Feasibility Of Data-Based Instruction For Students With Intensive Writing Needs, Apryl L. Poch, Kristen L. Mcmaster, Erica S. Lembke
Usability And Feasibility Of Data-Based Instruction For Students With Intensive Writing Needs, Apryl L. Poch, Kristen L. Mcmaster, Erica S. Lembke
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
A small proportion of students do not benefit sufficiently from standard intervention protocols and require more intensive, individualized instruction. Data-based instruction (DBI) has a strong evidence base for addressing students’ intensive academic needs, yet it is not widely implemented. In this study, we explored the usability and feasibility of a professional development system to support teachers’ use of DBI in writing. Data analyzed using a mixed-methods design revealed that teachers perceived supports such as coaching as facilitators of DBI implementation, whereas access to materials and external factors such as time conflicts presented challenges. Teachers made statistically significant growth from pretest …
Chapter 12. Informing Inquiry Into Writing Across The Lifespan From Perspectives On Students With Learning Disabilities Or Autism Spectrum Disorder, Apryl L. Poch, Matthew C. Zajic, Steve Graham
Chapter 12. Informing Inquiry Into Writing Across The Lifespan From Perspectives On Students With Learning Disabilities Or Autism Spectrum Disorder, Apryl L. Poch, Matthew C. Zajic, Steve Graham
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
The value of writing is not limited to single points of time in our lives but serves many different purposes across the lifespan (Bazerman et al., 2018). For instance, young children begin to experiment with writing as early as two years of age, using it as a vehicle for play, communication, and self-expression (Rowe, 2008). With the advent of school, the purposes for writing expand greatly to include writing to inform, persuade, describe, summarize, learn, and narrate to identify just some of the ways children, adolescents, and young adults learn to write and use writing as part of their education. …
Chapter 3. Quantitative Perspectives To The Study Of Writing Across The Lifespan: A Conceptual Overview And Focus On Structural Equation Modeling, Matthew C. Zajic, Apryl L. Poch
Chapter 3. Quantitative Perspectives To The Study Of Writing Across The Lifespan: A Conceptual Overview And Focus On Structural Equation Modeling, Matthew C. Zajic, Apryl L. Poch
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
As echoed throughout this edited collection, writing researchers are well aware of the complexities involved when adopting lifespan approaches to the study of written language. Writing researchers come from a wide array of fields (e.g., composition studies, rhetoric, psychology, education, and special education) that adopt different methodological approaches to answer a variety of research questions. A central issue to unpacking the complexities underlying the development of written language across the lifespan requires examining the available tools and methods offered by different research designs to pose and answer different types of research questions.
From Nclb To Essa: Implications For Teacher Preparation And Policy, Ambra L. Green, Jennifer Mckenzie, Timothy J. Lewis, Apryl L. Poch
From Nclb To Essa: Implications For Teacher Preparation And Policy, Ambra L. Green, Jennifer Mckenzie, Timothy J. Lewis, Apryl L. Poch
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
With the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the term highly qualified teacher (HQT) became an important component of teacher licensure, including for special educators. However, when ESEA was reauthorized in 2015 as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the highly qualified regulations were removed. The purpose of this study was to look back at the historical record of policy implementation of HQT and compare the record across states to provide implications for teacher preparation and licensure policy in the era of ESSA. This was accomplished through a review of the history of special education teacher …
Improving The Sentence Writing Fluency Of A Student With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Speech/Language Impairment: A Pilot Study, Shawn M. Datchuk, Apryl L. Poch, K. L. Panos
Improving The Sentence Writing Fluency Of A Student With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder And Speech/Language Impairment: A Pilot Study, Shawn M. Datchuk, Apryl L. Poch, K. L. Panos
Special Education and Communication Disorders Faculty Publications
The skill of sentence writing – the composition of connected text into sentence types understandable to readers – is foundational to written expression. Unfortunately, many students with learning disabilities – particularly those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and speech and/or language impairment (S/LI) – struggle to develop sentence writing and its multiple, related skills. Using a single-baseline design, we studied effects of a supplemental writing intervention on one elementary-aged student with comorbid ADHD and S/LI. The intervention entailed delivery of a writing fluency intervention with several antecedent- and consequence-based components: explicit instruction, fluency practice, a reinforcer survey, and contingent …