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The QuickSmart intervention significantly improved basic academic skills for students with learning difficulties. While scores remained lower than peers, students showed notable gains in reading and math automaticity.

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  • Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Special Education

Background:

  • Persistently low-achieving students in middle school often struggle with foundational academic skills.
  • Improving basic skill automaticity is crucial for enhancing higher-order cognitive processes like comprehension and problem-solving.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of the QuickSmart intervention for students with learning difficulties (LD).
  • To assess improvements in basic academic skills and higher-order processes in LD students.

Main Methods:

  • 42 middle school students with LD participated in the QuickSmart reading or mathematics program.
  • Intervention group progress was compared to high- and average-achieving peers using standardized tests and the Cognitive Aptitude Assessment System (CAAS).

Main Results:

  • QuickSmart students demonstrated significant pretest to posttest improvements in reading comprehension and mathematics.
  • While standardized scores remained below peers, QuickSmart students narrowed the performance gap in response speed and accuracy.
  • Comparison students showed no significant score changes from pretest to posttest.

Conclusions:

  • The QuickSmart intervention effectively enhances basic academic skills and automaticity in students with learning difficulties.
  • Focusing on automaticity of basic skills is vital for supporting students with LD in academic achievement.
  • Interventions like QuickSmart can help reduce the achievement gap for students with learning difficulties.