Effects of active student response during error correction on the acquisition and maintenance of geography facts by elementary students with learning disabilities Article

Barbetta, PM, Heward, WL. (1993). Effects of active student response during error correction on the acquisition and maintenance of geography facts by elementary students with learning disabilities . Journal of Behavioral Education, 3(3), 217-233. 10.1007/BF00961552

cited authors

  • Barbetta, PM; Heward, WL

authors

abstract

  • An alternating treatments design was used to compare the effects of Active Student Response (ASR) error correction and No Response (NR) error correction during instruction of the capitals of states and countries. Three students with learning disabilities were provided one-to-one daily instruction on four sets of 14 unknown capitals (7 ASR capitals and 7 NR capitals). Student errors during instruction on ASR capitals were immediately followed by the teacher stating the capital and the student repeating it (an active student response). Errors on NR capitals were immediately followed by the teacher stating the capital while the student visually attended to a geography card with the correct capital handwritten on it (an on-task response). During instruction each of the three students correctly stated more capitals taught with ASR instruction than he or she stated with NR error correction. Results of same-day and next-day tests show that all three students learned more capitals with ASR error correction than with NR error correction The students also correctly stated more ASR error correction capitals on 1-week maintenance tests. © 1993 Human Sciences Press, Inc.

publication date

  • September 1, 1993

published in

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start page

  • 217

end page

  • 233

volume

  • 3

issue

  • 3