Elizabeth Lorch

The purpose of this project is to test the efficacy of the Narrative Structure (NS) intervention, which is a supplemental after school intervention for third grade students at-risk for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) developed with prior IES funding (A Narrative Comprehension Intervention for Elementary School Children At-Risk for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). According to the National Center for Education Statistics, a substantial proportion of U.S. children str...

Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often have cognitive processing deficits which may partially contribute to their well-documented academic difficulties. Additionally, traditional treatments for ADHD have not been shown to have a sustained positive impact on children's academic outcomes. One specific deficit that has been shown to be common among children with ADHD relates to difficulties with narrative/story comprehension. There are four specific areas of impaire...

In this study, the researchers planned to develop instructional practices and pilot test them to help grade 4 students learn the concept of "control of variables". The control of variables refers to the strategy of manipulating only one variable while the others are held constant or controlled, allowing experimenters to conclude that any changes that occur are due to changes in the one variable. To develop the instructional practices, they will compare two practices they aimed to refine: dir...