COMPUTER-BASED STUDY STRATEGIES FOR STUDENTS WITH LEARNING-DISABILITIES - INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES ASSOCIATED WITH ADOPTION LEVEL

This article reports results from a study of the use of technology to support students with learning disabilities in the use of effective st udy strategies. Thirty secondary students were given laptop computers and taught a variety of computer-based study strategies designed to fa cilitate information recording, organization, and manipulation. Result s suggest that students;adopted this innovation at three levels: (a) P ower Users (skilled, independent users, integrating the computer into their schoolwork); (b) Prompted Users (skilled computer users, but req uiring prompting); and (c) Reluctant Users (having limited knowledge a nd working only under supervision). Intelligence and reading test scor es were associated with adoption levels in a statistically significant way.