Jessica R. Toste,Karrie A. Shogren,Mona Maclay,Elizabeth J. Hart,Sheida K. Raley,Abdulaziz H. Alsaeed
{"title":"Adapting the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction for Elementary Reading: Design-Based Development and Feasibility","authors":"Jessica R. Toste,Karrie A. Shogren,Mona Maclay,Elizabeth J. Hart,Sheida K. Raley,Abdulaziz H. Alsaeed","doi":"10.1177/09388982261476725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261476725","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancing self-determination can improve learning outcomes for students with disabilities, yet there is limited guidance on how to integrate self-determination skills into academic interventions while preserving theoretical integrity and contextual fit. This study reports on the first two years of a multiyear project to adapt the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction (SDLMI) for upper-elementary students with or at risk for reading disability (RD). Through iterative cycles of design and refinement, we developed the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction for Reading (SDLMI-R) while maintaining the original model's core components. We examined feasibility, acceptability, and promise using data from students, interventionists, and an expert teacher panel. Findings indicate that SDLMI-R lessons can be feasibly implemented, with evidence of students’ participation in goal-directed processes and early indicators of self-determination. This work highlights the potential of integrating self-determination within reading intervention and offers a model for adapting theoretically grounded interventions for new populations and contexts.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Calibrating Mathematics Vocabulary Self-Efficacy: Domain-Specific Accuracy by Mathematics-Difficulty Risk Status","authors":"Yijie Li,Xin Lin","doi":"10.1177/09388982261476730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261476730","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge of mathematics vocabulary is important for conceptual understanding, yet little is known about how students’ vocabulary self-efficacy corresponds to their performance or how accurately they judge their competence. This study examined relations between mathematics vocabulary self-efficacy (MVSE) and mathematics vocabulary performance (MVP) across four categories and compared calibration between students at risk for mathematics difficulties (MD) and their typically developing (TD) peers. Participants were 124 fifth-grade students. Structural equation modeling showed that each MVSE dimension was most strongly associated with its corresponding MVP domain; however, technical MVSE was also related to other domains. TD students often underestimated their competence in technical and symbolic vocabulary, whereas students at risk for MD more often overestimated their competence in subtechnical, symbolic, and general vocabulary. Calibration varied by vocabulary category and group.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tessa L. Arsenault,Sarah R. Powell,Asuman Sağlam Ak
{"title":"Mathematics Writing: Connections to General Writing, Mathematics Vocabulary, Computation, and Word-Problem Solving","authors":"Tessa L. Arsenault,Sarah R. Powell,Asuman Sağlam Ak","doi":"10.1177/09388982261476733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261476733","url":null,"abstract":"Mathematics writing can be challenging for students experiencing mathematics difficulty (MD). Research has connected general writing, mathematics vocabulary, computation, and word-problem solving as potential factors influencing the mathematics-writing performance of students with MD, but limited research has examined the exact relation between these factors and mathematics writing. In this study, we examined (a) the correlation between mathematics writing and general writing, mathematics vocabulary, computation, and word-problem solving; and (b) the predictive power of general writing, mathematics vocabulary, computation, and word-problem solving on mathematics writing. Mathematics writing correlated with each factor with moderate correlations for computation and word-problem solving. Each factor also explained unique and significant variance in mathematics writing, with computation and word-problem solving accounting for the largest percentage of the variance. The results demonstrate a strong influence of computation and word-problem solving on mathematics writing. Therefore, it may be beneficial to consider emphasizing mathematics content with mathematics-writing instruction.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"203 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mathematics Policy Across the United States: A Landscape Analysis","authors":"Grace P. Douglas,Sarah R. Powell,Sarah A. Benz","doi":"10.1177/09388982261465446","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261465446","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, evidence-based reading instruction has gained in popularity, and states have enacted legislation to require their use. To help move legislation into practice, states have created guidance documents. More recently, legislative attention is being paid to mathematics. This review analyzed mathematics legislation and guidance documents published from 2004 to May 2025. Across the 50 states and the District of Columbia, 93 mathematics legislation and guidance documents were found to exist in 54% of states. Such documents include information for core mathematics instruction, intervention, and implementation. In core instruction, states most frequently require the use of representations and a focus on problem solving. For mathematics intervention specifically, requirements for monitoring student progress are most common. To support the uptake of these practices, states rely on professional development or adoption of new curricular materials. These new requirements demonstrate a shift towards evidence-based mathematics efforts across the country, but policies related to reading still remain more common.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"37 1","pages":"298-313"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148934078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tasia Brafford,Christian T. Doabler,Jenna A. Gersib,Cayla Lussier,Ben Clarke,Jessica Turtura,Bailee N. Sutton,Derek Kosty
{"title":"Purposeful Practice Opportunities: How Guided and Independent Practice Informs Number Sense Development","authors":"Tasia Brafford,Christian T. Doabler,Jenna A. Gersib,Cayla Lussier,Ben Clarke,Jessica Turtura,Bailee N. Sutton,Derek Kosty","doi":"10.1177/09388982261448180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261448180","url":null,"abstract":"Although practice is essential for academic development, questions remain regarding how much and what kinds of practice best support early learners. To examine the role of practice in developing mathematical proficiency, we analyzed rates of guided and independent practice opportunities provided in a kindergarten mathematics intervention for 880 students with mathematics difficulties (MD) across 255 groups. Results indicate that (a) students’ initial skills levels did not predict rates of practice opportunities provided, (b) rates of practice were not associated with student performance changes, (c) effects were not moderated by initial skills, and (d) no optimal ratio of guided to independent practice, or guided practice to academic feedback, emerged. Findings suggest that while providing deliberate, purposeful practice is crucial, effectiveness does not depend on fixed thresholds. Instead, teachers should scaffold practice opportunities based on student need, adjusting supported and independent practice within high-quality instruction. Implications for research and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"150 1","pages":"265-278"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148934046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tommaso Feraco,Gerardo Pellegrino,Roberta Bonelli,Lorenza Da Re,Barbara Carretti,Chiara Meneghetti
{"title":"Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills of Students With Specific Learning Disabilities: A Replication, Extension, and Synthesis of Existing Research","authors":"Tommaso Feraco,Gerardo Pellegrino,Roberta Bonelli,Lorenza Da Re,Barbara Carretti,Chiara Meneghetti","doi":"10.1177/09388982261452122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261452122","url":null,"abstract":"Social, emotional, and behavioral (SEB) skills have been found to predict academic and non-academic outcomes; however, students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) may show weaker SEB profiles and SEB may not translate into better grades for this population of students. In 5,075 high school students, including 243 reporting an SLD diagnosis, we compared social engagement, self-management, innovation, emotional resilience, and cooperation skills, examined multiple self-regulated learning factors, and tested SEB-by-group interactions for grades, life satisfaction, and self-regulated learning. Students with SLD scored lower in self-management (β = −0.32), innovation (β = −0.39), social engagement (β = −0.27), and cooperation (β = −0.32). Furthermore, we meta-analyzed these findings with previous data to update the literature. Finally, descriptive analyses suggested that higher SEB skills, especially self-management, may translate less strongly into higher grades in the SLD group compared to students without SLD. Overall, students with SLDs showed a poorer profile of SEB skills.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"4 1","pages":"237-248"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148934047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lauren L. Foxworth,Andrew I. Hashey,Melissa LaPointe
{"title":"Utilizing Technology-Based Self-Regulated Strategy Instruction to Bolster Narratives of Secondary Students With Disabilities","authors":"Lauren L. Foxworth,Andrew I. Hashey,Melissa LaPointe","doi":"10.1177/09388982261440560","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09388982261440560","url":null,"abstract":"Strong fictional and personal narrative storytelling skills enable individuals to express their imaginative ideas, intelligence, and personal experience. However, most secondary students with disabilities experience significant difficulty writing narratives. The effects of a technology-integrated version of Self-Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) for the POW (Pick my genre then idea, Organize my notes, Write and say more) + STACS (Setting, Tension, rising Action, Climax, and Solution) secondary-level narrative writing strategy were evaluated for 16 eighth-grade students with disabilities and significant writing difficulties. The investigation was broken into two studies: Study 1 was a treatment-control group design and Study 2 was a pre-/post design for students who were part of the Study 1 control group. Both studies documented statistically significant, large effects for between- and within-group comparisons for story grammar element, strategy-specific element, essay length, and narrative-genre identification measures following technology-based SRSD for POW + STACS strategy lessons. Implications for practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"29 1","pages":"249-264"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149151601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issue Information (Aims and Scope, Subscription and copyright info, TOC and Editorial Board)","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/ldrp.12284","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ldrp.12284","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"38 4","pages":"249-252"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ldrp.12284","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92372384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melinda R. Snodgrass, Bryan G. Cook, Lysandra Cook
{"title":"Considering Social Validity in Special Education Research","authors":"Melinda R. Snodgrass, Bryan G. Cook, Lysandra Cook","doi":"10.1111/ldrp.12326","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ldrp.12326","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is part of a special LDRP research-to-practice series introducing key concepts to enable special education practitioners and other nonresearchers to be more informed research consumers. In the article, we explore how social validity is assessed in special education research and how to interpret social validity assessments. Rather than focusing on measuring intervention effects, social validity involves assessing the social importance of the goals, procedures, and outcomes of interventions and programs. We define social validity, provide questions to consider when examining assessments of social validity in research papers, review approaches commonly used to assess social validity with examples from the research literature, and make recommendations for reconciling findings of positive intervention effects on targeted outcomes but absent or negative findings related to social validity in a study. Our take-home message is that considering social validity assessments helps research consumers interpret study findings and informs how to apply findings in practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"38 4","pages":"311-319"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71507309","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Janalee Morris, Tom Buchanan, Janet Arnold, Tracie Czerkawski, Brad Congram
{"title":"The Impact of Gender, Accommodations, and Disability on the Academic Performance of Canadian University Students with LD and/or ADHD","authors":"Janalee Morris, Tom Buchanan, Janet Arnold, Tracie Czerkawski, Brad Congram","doi":"10.1111/ldrp.12324","DOIUrl":"10.1111/ldrp.12324","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Academic accommodations for students experiencing disabilities are increasingly available at postsecondary institutions. More studies of the efficacy of accommodations for student success are warranted, however. Given the increased gender gap in university participation, more focus on the unique impact of gender is also needed. Using a sample of students registered with Access and Inclusion Services with learning disabilities (LD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and combined LD/ADHD at a Canadian undergraduate university (<i>N</i> = 661), we explored the impact of gender on academic performance and accommodation usage. Next, we examined how gender intersected with the impact of academic accommodations on academic performance. Women, on average, demonstrated better academic performance. Academic strategies and assistive technologies were not associated with higher academic performance. However, testing accommodations (extended time and environmental accommodations) were positively associated with academic performance for men with LD or ADHD, but not for the combined group LD/ADHD. For the former two, the more tests accommodated, the higher the academic performance. Furthermore, this gender association was most prominent for students experiencing ADHD. Interpretations and policy recommendations related to these findings are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":47426,"journal":{"name":"Learning Disabilities Research & Practice","volume":"38 4","pages":"296-310"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71507308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}