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Version 1.2 – Updated June 2023

Interventions for students with learning needs

Overview

  • Influence: Interventions for students with learning needs
  • Domain: Technology, School, and Out-of-School Strategies
  • Sub-Domain: School-wide
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: These studies look at a range of interventions with a particular focus on students who usually experience a high degree of difficulty with learning in classes.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 5
  • Number of studies: 424
  • Number of students: 39,967
  • Number of effects: 2,878
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.74
  • Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
School Psychology Review Swanson, Carson, & Sachse-Lee USA A Selective Synthesis of Intervention Research for Students with Learning Disabilities 1996 Programs for learning disabled students 78 0 324 0.85
Dissertation Beese USA The effects of supplemental educational services on student learning outcomes 2008 Special Ed Supplement Programs 10 531 10 0.80
Campbell Systematic Reviews Dietrichson, Filges, Klokker, Viinholt, Bøg, & Jensen Denmark Targeted school-based interventions for improving reading and mathematics for students with, or at risk of, academic difficulties in Grades 7–12: A systematic review. 2020 Targeted intervention 71 33,772 214 0.86
Review of Educational Research Swanson, Hoskyn, & Lee USA Experimental intervention research on students with learning disabilities: A meta-analysis of treatment outcomes 1998 Between group designs 180 4,871 1,537 0.56
Review of Educational Research Swanson, Hoskyn, & Lee USA Experimental intervention research on students with learning disabilities: A meta-analysis of treatment outcomes. 1998 Single subject designs 85 793 793 0.90
TOTAL/AVERAGE 424 39,967 2,878 0.79
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