Effects of general education teacher-delivered embedded instruction to teach students with intellectual disability to solve word problems

Jessica A. Bowman, John McDonnell, Joanna Ryan, Olivia Fudge Coleman, Lyndsey Aiono Conradi, Carrie Eichelberger

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Abstract

Current research on teaching mathematics to students with intellectual disability (ID) has demonstrated that, given evidence-based instruction, these students can acquire a wide range of skills. However, very little research has been conducted in inclusive general education (GE) classrooms and no studies have utilized the GE teacher as the intervention agent (Spooner, Root, Saunders, & Browder, 2018). This study utilized a multiple baseline design to evaluate the effects of GE teacher-delivered embedded instruction on two main variables: (1) students’ ability to solve word problems, and (2) generalization across people and materials and to untaught word problems. The data indicate that the embedded mathematics instructional package was effective in teaching students to (1) solve additive word problems with sums less than five, and (2) to generalize to untaught word problems and across people and materials. Limitations and suggestions for future research are also discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)318-331
Number of pages14
JournalEducation and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities
Volume55
Issue number3
StatePublished - Sep 2020

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Support for this research was provided in part by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs grant H325160064, The University of Utah Leadership Education Project (ULEP). Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jessica A. Bowman, University of Minnesota, TIES Center, 207 Pattee Hall, 150 Pillsbury Drive SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455. E-mail: [email protected]

Publisher Copyright:
© Division on Autism and Developmental Disabilities.

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