Effects of Self-Regulated Strategy Development for POW+TREE on High School Students with Learning Disabilities

Abstract

High school students with learning disabilities often have difficulty expressing their thoughts in writing. At the secondary level, writing becomes paramount to successfully navigating the curriculum and expressing knowledge. In this study, the effectiveness of Self-Regulated Strategy Development for POW (Pick my idea, Organize my notes, Write and say more) + TREE (Topic sentence, Reasons—three or more, Examine, Ending) for persuasive quick writes with four high school students with learning disabilities was investigated. Results indicated an increase in the number of response parts written and increased stability in the number of words written. The participants who deemed the intervention as positive provided social validity.

Notes

Support for this research was provided by Grant No. R324A070199-07 from the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences, awarded to Pennsylvania State University.