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CREST | Research
IES awards College researchers $4.8 million/5 years to create a new doctoral training program for educational scientists
CIRGE | Research
CIRGE has been busy: its 5-Years Out study drew wide attention and it has hosted three int'l workshops on PhD education...
Research
Projects
Project Title: The Write Stuff Intervention
COE Investigators: Virginia W. Berninger and Robert D. Abbott
Funding Source: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institute of Health (NIH)
Start/End Dates: 7/1989 – 6/2006
Building upon prior research that validated component processes important for handwriting, spelling, and composition, we conducted a series of instructional studies for early intervention and remediation of writing disabilities. This research resulted in scientifically supported instructional interventions for preventing writing disabilities, modifying curriculum to improve writing, and increasing children’s writing skills. Lessons plans based on this research will be available in the PAL Teacher Guide, which also includes information on how teachers can implement lessons in their own classrooms, evaluate children’s progress, and design their own lessons using scientifically supported design principles. Current research is focused on understanding how training specific writing skills transfers to specific reading skills and how training specific reading skills transfers to specific writing skills.
Selected related publications:
Berninger, V., & Amtmann, D. (in press). Preventing written expression
disabilities through early and continuing assessment and intervention for
handwriting and/or spelling problems: Research into practice. In H.
Swanson, K. Harris, & S. Graham (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Learning
Disabilities. New York: Guilford.
Wong, B., & Berninger, V. (in press). Instructional principles for composition in
elementary, middle, and high school: Merging process-writing instruction
with cognitive processes of the writer and teacher. In B. Schulman, K. Apel,
B. Ehren, E. Silliman, & A. Stone (Eds.), Handbook of Language and Literacy
Development and Disorders. New York: Guilford.
Berninger, V., & Abbott, S. (in press).PAL Teacher Guide for Scientifically
Supported Reading and Writing Instruction.
San Antonio, TX: The Psychological Corporation.
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