Learning Strategies: An Instructional Alternative for Low-Achieving Adolescents

Abstract

As mildly handicapped students move from elementary to secondary school, they are expected to deal with increased curricular demands. The University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning Disabilities has designed and validated a set of task-specific learning strategies as an instructional alternative for these students. Learning strategies teach students “how to learn” so that they can more effectively cope with increased curriculum expectations.