Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11300
Title: Successful Intervention for Students with Learning Difficulties in the Middle School Years: The QuickSmart Approach
Contributor(s): Bellert, Anne M (author); Graham, Lorraine (author); Pegg, John E  (author)
Publication Date: 2003
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/11300
Abstract: This paper explores issues about effectively supporting students with learning difficulties in the middle school years in the context of Australian schools. It begins by defining learning difficulties (LD) and attempting to identify the 'obstacles to learning' encountered by middle years students who experience difficulties in academic learning. The impact of LD on student learning in literacy and numeracy and the flow-on effect on content area learning, is then briefly explored. The second section of the paper examines research on effective in-class teaching and learning and briefly reports some practices used to accommodate LD students in the classroom, before going on to argue that these in-class practices need to be augmented by specific, research-based interventions to better enable students to overcome barriers to making progress with basic academic skills. In the final section one such research-based intervention, QuickSmart, which incorporates the Computer-assisted Academic Assessment System (CAAS), is briefly reported. The promising results from the first implementation of the intervention have been validated by follow-up studies and current projects are continuing to explore the implementation and efficacy of the QuickSmart intervention. Results to date indicate the positive effect of improved automaticity of basic academic skills on students' higher-order processes, such as problem solving and comprehension.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: MYSA 2003: 3rd International Conference of the Middle Years of Schooling Association, Brisbane, Australia, 8th - 10th May, 2003
Source of Publication: Presented at the Third International Conference of the Middle Years of Schooling Association
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 130208 Mathematics and Numeracy Curriculum and Pedagogy
130204 English and Literacy Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl LOTE, ESL and TESOL)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 930102 Learner and Learning Processes
HERDC Category Description: E2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publication
Appears in Collections:Conference Publication
School of Education
The National Centre of Science, Information and Communication Technology, and Mathematics Education for Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR)

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