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Trial reportJournal of experimental child psychology2012

Does understanding relational terminology mediate effects of intervention on compare word problems?

Robin F Schumacher, Lynn S Fuchs

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of experimental child psychology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Improving Language Comprehension to Enhance Word-Problem Solving.Reading & writing quarterly : overcoming learning difficulties · 2020
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  4. Review
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  6. Is Word-Problem Solving a Form of Text Comprehension?Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robin F SchumacherDepartment of Special Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203, USA. robin.f.schumacher@gmail.com
Lynn S Fuchs

Funding

THREE-TIERED PREVENTION MODEL TO BETTER SERVE ALL STUDENP30HD015052 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI DYKENS, ELISABETH MAY · 1985 to 2014
$18.6M
Calculations, Word Problems, and Algebraic CognitionR01HD059179 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI FUCHS, LYNN S · 2009 to 2013
$2.8M
NICHD NIH HHS HD059179NICHD NIH HHS HD15052NICHD NIH HHS P30 HD015052NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD059179
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess whether understanding relational terminology (i.e., more, less, and fewer) mediates the effects of intervention on compare word problems. Second-grade classrooms (N=31) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: researcher-designed word-problem intervention, researcher-designed calculation intervention, or business-as-usual (teacher-designed) control. Students in word-problem intervention classrooms received instruction on the compare problem type, which included a focus on understanding relational terminology within compare word problems. Analyses, which accounted for variance associated with classroom clustering, indicated that (a) compared with the calculation intervention and business-as-usual conditions, word-problem intervention significantly increased performance on all three subtypes of compare problems and on understanding relational terminology, and (b) the intervention effect was fully mediated by students' understanding of relational terminology for one subtype of compare problems and partially mediated by students' understanding of relational terminology for the other two subtypes.

Indexed as

MathematicsTerminology as TopicVocabularyAnalysis of VarianceChildComprehensionFemaleHumansLearningMaleProblem Solving

Identifiers

PMID22221461
PMCPMC3288282

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