Impact d’interventions pédagogiques sur les performances des collégiens souffrant de difficultés d’apprentissages en langage écrit et mathématiques. Une étude contrôlée
Catherine Billard , Sahawanatou Gassama , Monique Touzin , Anne Mirassou , Arnold Munnich , Jean-Christophe Thalabard
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Abstract
Aim
This study investigated pedagogical interventions for adolescents with learning difficulties (LDs) in France, a topic addressed in the Anglosphere but still largely underexplored.
Material and method
In a cohort of 188 sixth- and seventh-graders, selected tests from the BMT-i battery identified middle-schoolers as having learning deficits based on norm-referenced scores below the 20th percentile in written language or mathematics assessment. After screening, 117 students with Learning Difficulties in written language, mathematics, or a combination of the two were selected. After written agreement from parents, experimental students (n = 76) were assigned to 35-session written French or math teacher-led interventions under researcher supervision. Control students (n = 25) participated in none. Intervention effects were measured by Comparing differences in initial (T0), immediate post-intervention (T2), and delayed post-intervention (T3) test scores for different subgroups.
Results
By T2, in the experimental group deficits had fully receded for reading fluency and comprehension, numeration, and mental arithmetic, and had diminished for spelling and problem-solving; in the control group, deficits remained prominent overall. Effects persisted until T3. Improvements in reading comprehension were greater among French intervention participants than among controls (P < 0.001). Math intervention participants made greater progress in problem-solving, numeration, and subtraction (P < 0.0001 to P < 0.05).
Interpretation
While larger controlled trials are warranted to corroborate them, these findings underscore the value of pedagogical interventions for remedying middle school LDs.
期刊介绍:
Organ of the Société française de psychiatrie de enfant et de adolescent, Neuropsychiatrie de enfance et de adolescence tackles all fields of child-adolescent psychiatry and offers a link between field and clinical work. As a reference and training tool for students and practitioners, the journal publishes original papers in child psychiatry as well as book reviews and conference reports. Each issue also offers a calendar of the main events dealing with the speciality.