Journal Article

Efficacy of a Computer-Based Editing Strategy with Postsecondary Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Rodgers, Derek B., Neil, Katelyn M., Hinzman, Michelle, Alqahtani, Saeed S., Woods-Groves, Suzanne, Balint-Langel, Kinga, Hughes, Charles A.

2020

Overview

The authors in this study used a pre-posttest experimental design with random assignment to treatment or control group to assess the use of an electronic editing cognitive strategy. The participants were 16 college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities enrolled in a 2-year postsecondary program at a Midwestern institute of higher education. Students who were taught the strategy received eight 50-minute lessons once a week for eight weeks. Each strategy lesson was driven by the strategy mnemonic and incorporated an explicit instruction format with modeling, guided practice with feedback, and independent practice. Strategy instruction included students using desktop PCs and Microsoft Word to identify and correct editing errors in electronic passages. Posttests revealed a significant difference in favor of the treatment group for total editing errors corrected and specific error types corrected for spelling, punctuation, and substance. No significant difference was found for overall appearance and capitalization errors. Two weeks following posttest, a maintenance probe revealed that students in the treatment group corrected a significantly higher number of editing errors than those in the control group.

• Publisher: Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities,SAGE Publications,Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Council for Exceptional Children
• Subject: Achievement Tests / Associative processes / Cognition & reasoning / Cognitive ability / Cognitive Processes / Cognitive strategies / College Applicants / College students / Computer Uses in Education / Computers / Control Groups / Design / Developmental Disabilities / Disability studies / Editing / Educational Strategies / Efficacy / Error Correction / Errors / Feedback / Groups / Higher education / Instructional Effectiveness / Intellectual Disability / Intervention / Investigations / Learning / Learning Strategies / Literacy / Mnemonics / People with disabilities / Punctuation / Reading Fluency / Reading Skills / Research design / Revision (Written Composition) / Spelling / Strategies / Students with Disabilities / Teaching / Teaching Methods / Thinking Skills / Two Year College Students / Word Processing / Writing Strategies / Young Adults