Method
Participants
Data were collected from 50 school-aged children, between the ages of 10 through 11 years of age, who had been previously diagnosed with ADHD by a clinician (25 girls, 25 boys) from fifth grade classrooms across five schools in the New York City urban public school district. The families of the participants had all requested diagnostic evaluations from their clinicians that explained the participants’ diagnosis of ADHD. The participants were all born in New York City and are fluent English speakers. The participants were racially and ethnically diverse and were representative of the children of the school district they had been recruited from. All of the children had grown up in two parent homes with parents who had at …show more content…
The participants themselves were given a three-page experimental packet that included fifteen mathematical questions during the beginning of the study and at the end of the experiment as a measurement of their academic growth. The quiz also included a short reading assessment consisting of a brief reading passage with three multiple choice questions and two short answer questions. To add on, the same was distributed at the end of the marking period with distinct questions for both the reading and mathematical portion of the study. There were two different versions of the quiz given to avoid any cheating. An example of the math problems given include: Find the product of 6.8 x 0.5. Select the right answer: (a) 0.034 (b) 0.34 (c) 3.4 (d) 34.0, Which of the following comparison statements is true? (a) 3.909 = 3.990 (b) 3.099 > 3.99 (c) 3.990 = 3.99 (d) 3.09 < 3.009. An example of the reading questions asked include: What is the main idea of the passage? What is the genre of the passage?.
Parent tutoring and homework intervention sessions were given to the parents of the participants for one week as a form of training the parents into incorporating the proper intervention to assist their child with the homework assigned to them and to continue what had been provided for the child in their daily classroom …show more content…
For the purpose of this study, the computer assisted instruction was focused specifically in mathematics and reading in a smaller classroom setting which permitted one-on-one instruction. Each student in the classroom was paired with a peer tutor in order to work on certain academic activities which allowed the student to receive one-on-one instruction even when the teacher was occupied attending another student. The students were paired with another classmate that understood the material really well and was excelling in the class. Lastly, students also received parent intervention in which the parents were asked to tutor their child on oral reading tasks which helped enhanced the one-on-one instruction the children were receiving in the classroom and had the children become involved in feedback and active responding. The parents had weekly gatherings with the Department of Education personnel that trained them in order to discuss any progress they noticed within their children in order to hold them
Participants
Data were collected from 50 school-aged children, between the ages of 10 through 11 years of age, who had been previously diagnosed with ADHD by a clinician (25 girls, 25 boys) from fifth grade classrooms across five schools in the New York City urban public school district. The families of the participants had all requested diagnostic evaluations from their clinicians that explained the participants’ diagnosis of ADHD. The participants were all born in New York City and are fluent English speakers. The participants were racially and ethnically diverse and were representative of the children of the school district they had been recruited from. All of the children had grown up in two parent homes with parents who had at …show more content…
The participants themselves were given a three-page experimental packet that included fifteen mathematical questions during the beginning of the study and at the end of the experiment as a measurement of their academic growth. The quiz also included a short reading assessment consisting of a brief reading passage with three multiple choice questions and two short answer questions. To add on, the same was distributed at the end of the marking period with distinct questions for both the reading and mathematical portion of the study. There were two different versions of the quiz given to avoid any cheating. An example of the math problems given include: Find the product of 6.8 x 0.5. Select the right answer: (a) 0.034 (b) 0.34 (c) 3.4 (d) 34.0, Which of the following comparison statements is true? (a) 3.909 = 3.990 (b) 3.099 > 3.99 (c) 3.990 = 3.99 (d) 3.09 < 3.009. An example of the reading questions asked include: What is the main idea of the passage? What is the genre of the passage?.
Parent tutoring and homework intervention sessions were given to the parents of the participants for one week as a form of training the parents into incorporating the proper intervention to assist their child with the homework assigned to them and to continue what had been provided for the child in their daily classroom …show more content…
For the purpose of this study, the computer assisted instruction was focused specifically in mathematics and reading in a smaller classroom setting which permitted one-on-one instruction. Each student in the classroom was paired with a peer tutor in order to work on certain academic activities which allowed the student to receive one-on-one instruction even when the teacher was occupied attending another student. The students were paired with another classmate that understood the material really well and was excelling in the class. Lastly, students also received parent intervention in which the parents were asked to tutor their child on oral reading tasks which helped enhanced the one-on-one instruction the children were receiving in the classroom and had the children become involved in feedback and active responding. The parents had weekly gatherings with the Department of Education personnel that trained them in order to discuss any progress they noticed within their children in order to hold them