Date Approved
4-24-1997
Embargo Period
8-30-2016
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Special Education
Department
Interdisciplinary and Inclusive Education
College
College of Education
Advisor
Kuder, S. Jay
Subject(s)
English language--Orthography and spelling--Study and teaching (Elementary); Mentally ill children--Education (Elementary)
Disciplines
Special Education and Teaching
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis was to determine if the use of the SRA Spelling Mastery Program with emotionally disturbed students would increase the amount of words they could spell as compared to similar students who utilized the Graham and Freeman five step study strategy. All the students in the study have been described as having attentional difficulties. After the completion of the placement test, intervention was begun. Intervention consisted of one hundred words selected from the SRA Spelling Mastery Program. Both the SRA and the Graham group had weekly spelling tests consisting of the same ten words. Unit tests were given to each group every three weeks. The unit tests consisted of twenty-five words selected from the three previous spelling tests.
The results of this study indicate that the differences between the two groups were insignificant. The Graham group showed the higher mean score for both weekly tests and unit tests.
Recommended Citation
Shakespeare, Brian, "A study to determine whether students using the SRA Spelling Mastery Program will learn to spell more words as compared to students utilizing the Graham and Freeman strategy" (1997). Theses and Dissertations. 2114.
https://rdw.rowan.edu/etd/2114
