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A 4 page paper that offers 2 article critiques. Each critique begins with an abstract of the article and then offers evaluation. The first article pertains to a study about social skill instruction to disabled students and the second article deals with reading fluency instruction with students who have emotional and behavioral problems. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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disabilities, within the context of a self-contained, special education classroom. The intervention encompassed 12 hours of social skills instruction, which was administrated during the course of the regular school day
by a para-professional and a student teacher. The results were determined through direct observation of behavior, as well as the amount of time in which students were actively engaged academically.
The researchers also determined behavioral points, which were defined in accordance with a classroom management plan and designed to evaluate the degree of participant responsiveness. This process revealed a decline
in the degree of inappropriate classroom behavior and a simultaneous increase in academic engagement for the majority of the sample group. However, despite this result, as substantiated by direct observational
data, there were no significant alterations in the behavioral points earned by the participants. There were mixed results as to the perceptions of social validity expressed by teachers and
students regarding the intervention goals, as well as the studys procedures and outcomes. The limitations of this research are outlined by the researchers, as well as indications for additional investigation
on this topic. Critique : Extensive research has shown that failure in social relationships can have a direct effect on academic failure, as well as other serious repercussions. Therefore,
goal of this study was to discern if a successful intervention could be devised that would have a beneficial effect on inappropriate classroom behavior among a sample group of seven
students (five boys; two girls) with high-incidence disabilities. Three students were diagnosed as emotionally disturbed and other disabilities included "specific learning disability, mental retardation and other health impaired...speech and
language" (Miller, Lane and Wehby, 2005, p. 29). It has been shown that learning social skills is not something that is automatically acquired by students with special needs. Therefore, this
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