Scaffolding the Writing of Students with Disabilities Through Procedural Facilitation: Using an Internet-Based Technology to Improve Performance

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Sue Englert ◽  
Yong Zhao ◽  
Kailonnie Dunsmore ◽  
Natalia Yevgenyevna Collings ◽  
Kimberly Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Procedural Facilitation

Replication of the Superstition and Performance Study by

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Calin-Jageman ◽  
Tracy L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Task Difficulty ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Performance Study ◽  
Improve Performance ◽  
Research Designs ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
And Performance

A recent series of experiments suggests that fostering superstitions can substantially improve performance on a variety of motor and cognitive tasks ( Damisch, Stoberock, & Mussweiler, 2010 ). We conducted two high-powered and precise replications of one of these experiments, examining if telling participants they had a lucky golf ball could improve their performance on a 10-shot golf task relative to controls. We found that the effect of superstition on performance is elusive: Participants told they had a lucky ball performed almost identically to controls. Our failure to replicate the target study was not due to lack of impact, lack of statistical power, differences in task difficulty, nor differences in participant belief in luck. A meta-analysis indicates significant heterogeneity in the effect of superstition on performance. This could be due to an unknown moderator, but no effect was observed among the studies with the strongest research designs (e.g., high power, a priori sampling plan).

College students with disabilities redefine activism: Self-advocacy, storytelling, and collective action.

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezekiel W. Kimball ◽  
Adam Moore ◽  
Annemarie Vaccaro ◽  
Peter F. Troiano ◽  
Barbara M. Newman
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
College Students With Disabilities
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