Improving oral reading fluency by influencing students' choice of instructional procedures: An experimental analysis with two students with behavioral disorders

Behavioral Interventions

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-30

  Daly III, Edward J ^a   Garbacz, S Andrew ^a   Olson, Stephanie C ^a   Persampieri, Michael ^a   Ni, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MOTIVATION; READING; STUDENT ATTITUDE;

EID: 33644540174     PISSN: 10720847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bin.208     Document Type: Article

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