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Daily Data Based Instructional Procedures in Arithmetic With Skill Deficient Students

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2016

Dagmar Neal
Dagmar Neal*
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Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education
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Abstract

Mildly mentally handicapped students are commonly assumed to have not only low general ability, but also slow rates of learning. It is likewise held that current skill deficits of mildly handicapped students predict low potential. A classroom implementation of data based instruction or precision teaching, showed that groups of skill deficient children were able to progress and substantially change their current level of functioning along a series of teacher developed task analysed arithmetic sequences, after instruction.

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Research Article
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Australasian Journal of Special Education , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , November 1982 , pp. 22 - 36
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Copyright © The Australian Association of Special Education 1982

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