Use of response cards with a group of students with learning disabilities including those for whom English is a second language.

Linda L. Davis & Robert E. O'Neill (2004). Use of response cards with a group of students with learning disabilities including those for whom English is a second language. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 37, 219-222.

The current study compared the effects of hand raising and response cards during a writing instruction class in a middle-school resource classroom with students who were learning English as their second language. Response cards increased the rate and accuracy of academic responding, increased weekly quiz scores, and had mixed effects on off-task behavior, but most students reported that they preferred hand raising.

DESCRIPTORS: ESL services, learning disabilities, response cards