Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1975. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-121).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves: [95]-98)

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1996. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 23, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John V. Godbold (chair), Thomas G. Baer, Robert L. Fisher, R. Kay Moss, Kenneth H. Strand. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 118-125) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis PlanB (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of the present study was to explore the coping strategies and learning techniques students with reading difficulties/disabilities (e.g., dyslexia) view as effective and commonly use to cope with the demands of postsecondary education. The present study employed a basic qualitative interpretive research design to discover and understand the perspectives and experiences of the students interviewed for this study (Merriam, 1998). Semi-structured interviews were utilized to provide insight into the experiences of these individuals. Analysis of the data generated from these interviews maintained a focus within the theory of resilience. There were three major themes that emerged from the interviews: (1) struggling to learn: recognizing the impact of learning difficulties and/or disabilities; (2) embracing the positives and negatives of a diagnosis; (3) surviving the learning experience: using coping strategies and learning techniques. Despite the adversities the participants within the current study faced, they all reported instances in which they were able to positively adapt and adjust in order to experience success and resilience in their lives. This study concluded with a discussion of the practical implications of the findings, the limitations and strengths of the study, and areas for future research.

abstract: Watanabe, Náñez, and Sasaki (2001) introduced a phenomenon they named “task-irrelevant perceptual learning” in which near-threshold stimuli that are not essential to a given task can be associatively learned when consistently and concurrently paired with the focal task. The present study employs a visual paired-shapes recognition task, using colored polygon targets as salient attended focal stimuli, with the goal of comparing the increases in perceptual sensitivity observed when near-threshold stimuli are temporally paired in varying manners with focal targets. Experiment 1 separated and compared the target-acquisition and target-recognition phases and revealed that sensitivity improved most when the near-threshold motion stimuli were paired with the focal target-acquisition phase. The parameters of sensitivity improvement were motion detection, critical flicker fusion threshold (CFFT), and letter-orientation decoding. Experiment 2 tested perceptual learning of near-threshold stimuli when they were offset from the focal stimuli presentation by ±350 ms. Performance improvements in motion detection, CFFT, and decoding were significantly greater for the group in which near-threshold motion was presented after the focal target. Experiment 3 showed that participants with reading difficulties who were exposed to focal target-acquisition training improved in sensitivity in all visual measures. Experiment 4 tested whether near-threshold stimulus learning occurred cross-modally with auditory stimuli and served as an active control for the first, second, and third experiments. Here, a tone was paired with all focal stimuli, but the tone was 1 Hz higher or lower when paired with the targeted focal stimuli associated with recognition. In Experiment 4, there was no improvement in visual sensitivity, but there was significant improvement in tone discrimination. Thus, this study, as a whole, confirms that pairing near-threshold stimuli with focal stimuli can improve performance in just tone discrimination, or in motion detection, CFFT, and letter decoding. Findings further support the thesis that the act of trying to remember a focal target also elicited greater associative learning of correlated near-threshold stimulus than the act of recognizing a target. Finally, these findings support that we have developed a visual learning paradigm that may potentially mitigate some of the visual deficits that are often experienced by the reading disabled. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Psychology 2016

The major purpose of this descriptive study was to identify the reasoning strategies used by seventh- and eighth grade severely disabled remedial reading students when attempting to comprehend expository and narrative prose. Additional research questions dealt with the most frequently used strategies; correct responses to questions through the use of strategies; strategies used when responding to narrative and expository prose; strategies used when answering literal and inferential questions; and the strategies used by individual students.

Orientador: Edi Lúcia Sartorato / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Biologia / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T01:19:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Svidnicki_MariaCarolinaCostaMelo_M.pdf: 1911302 bytes, checksum: d9763aa0db5e4721a58e8e1f714fd1d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: A dislexia é definida como um distúrbio, ou transtorno de aprendizagem na área da leitura, escrita e soletração, que ocorre apesar de uma adequada inteligência e oportunidade sociocultural. A etiologia desse distúrbio se deve, em parte, a um importante componente genético. Ao todo, nove loci no genoma foram identificados por meio de estudos de ligação, e sete genes proeminentes foram propostos como candidatos à dislexia: DYX1C1, KIAA0319, DCDC2, ROBO1, MRPL19, C2ORF3 e KIAA0319L, mas nenhuma mutação funcional nesses genes foi efetivamente relacionada com a causa do distúrbio até o momento. O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a relação de dados moleculares com a manifestação do distúrbio em 49 famílias de escolares brasileiros com diagnóstico de dislexia. Para isso, foi investigada a presença de grandes deleções e duplicações em algumas regiões dos genes candidatos DCDC2, KIAA0319 e ROBO1 pela técnica de Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA), utilizando o kit SALSA MLPA P150 (MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). E além disso, foi realizado um estudo de associação utilizando 4 SNPs (Single Nucleotyde polymorphisms) presentes no gene DYX1C1, que já haviam sido relacionados com o fenótipo na literatura. A técnica de MLPA foi aplicada pela primeira vez na pesquisa de mutações em genes candidatos para a dislexia, este método foi reprodutível e o padrão de variação total por sonda foi baixo, porém a análise não revelou nenhuma deleção ou duplicação nas regiões de ligação das sondas nos genes estudados. Algumas modificações no kit de dislexia P150 foram sugeridas ao fabricante visando o aprimoramento para estudos futuros. Na etapa seguinte, a genotipagem dos SNPs foi realizada por PCR em tempo real, e a estratégia utilizada no estudo de associação foi o Teste de Transmissão de Desequilíbrio de Ligação (TDT). Nenhuma associação foi obtida para os marcadores estudados. As aparentes discrepâncias de nossos resultados com estudos anteriores podem ser explicados pelas diferenças na definição do fenótipo, a ancestralidade da amostra, o desenho do estudo, e as interações com efeitos ambientais que diferem entre populações. Esse resultado não descarta a participação do gene DYX1C1 na etiologia da dislexia, o aumento do número da amostra e de marcadores para estudos posteriores é fundamental para que se possa fazer uma análise mais completa do envolvimento desse gene no fenótipo, o que poderá fornecer importantes informações para o entendimento da dislexia e para futuros protocolos de diagnósticos e de conduta para os indivíduos afetados / Abstract: Dyslexia or reading disability is a learning disorder associated with difficulty in learning to read, writing and spelling, despite adequate intelligence and educational opportunities, with a significant heritable trait. At least nine loci in the genome were related through linkage studies, and seven prominent genes were associated with dyslexia: DYX1C1, KIAA0319, DCDC2, ROBO1, MRPL19, C2ORF3 and KIAA0319L but no functional mutation in these genes was indeed related with the disorder cause so far. The intent of this study was access the contribution of these genes in the learning disorder molecular etiology, in a sample 49 families of dyslexic Brazilian individuals. Large deletions and duplications in the candidate genes DCDC2, KIAA0319 and ROBO1 were investigated by Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification (MLPA) technique, using the SALSA MLPA P150 kit (MRC-Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands). In addition, an association study was performed using 4 SNPs (Single Nucleotyde polymorphisms) in DYX1C1 gene, which had already related to the phenotype in the literature. The MLPA technique was applied for the first time in the search for candidate genes mutations in dyslexia, this method was reproducible and the overall standard variation per probe was low, but the analysis revealed no deletion or duplication in probes binding regions in the studied genes. Some modifications in the SALSA MLPA P150 kit have been suggested to the manufacturer attempting to improve it for future studies. In the next stage, SNPs genotyping was performed by real time PCR, and the strategy used in the association study was the Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT). No association was obtained for the markers. The apparent discrepancies of our results with previous studies can be explained by phenotype definition differences, the sample ancestry, study design, and interactions with environmental effects that differ between populations. This result does not rule out the involvement of DYX1C1 gene in the dyslexia etiology, the increase of the sample and markers numbers for future studies is essential to make a more complete analysis of this gene involvement in phenotype, which may provide important information to the dyslexia understanding and future diagnostic protocols and conduct for affected individuals / Mestrado / Genetica Animal e Evolução / Mestre em Genética e Biologia Molecular

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This thesis is a narrative account of how I have transformed my learning and teaching strategies for Grade 9 learners, generating my own living theory of teaching within a social context with the aim of enabling my learners to construct their own knowledge. My value-embedded practice is reflected in the values I attach to equality, inclusivity, social justice and basic human rights. These embodied values are also a reflection of my commitment to my Christian values which encompass my entire existence and have become the living standards by which I judge the quality of my research. My classroom-based action research methodology is a living transformational process which heralds a change for a more just practice and the inclusion and recognition of the individual. My findings about my learners’ and my own learning offer new conceptualisations about the capacity of my learners to learn in their own unique ways and according to their own potential. I am claiming that the significance of my research is grounded in my ability to demonstrate how I can unleash the untapped potential of learners failing to attain the desired outcomes. I show them how to learn confidently and successfully within a social context using prior knowledge, scaffolding and motivation as teaching and learning tools. This has potential inspiration for new forms of practice and theory in aiming to improve learners’ potential. A significant feature of my account is how my Christian values have been translated into my critical epistemological standards of judgement, and the development of a living theory of practice that enables me to account for educational influences in my learners’ and my own learning.