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Mathematical Learning Difficulties and PASS Cognitive Processes

Department of Special Education at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, E.H.Kroesbergen{at}fss.uu.nl

Johannes E. H. Van Luit

Utrecht University in the Netherlands

Jack A. Naglieri

Center for Cognitive Development at George Mason University

This study examined the relationships between mathematical learning difficulties (MLD) and the planning, attention, simultaneous, successive (PASS) theory of cognitive processing. The Cognitive Assessment System (CAS) was used to measure the PASS processes for a group of 267 Dutch students with MLD who attended either general or special education. The results showed that students with MLD performed lower than their peers on all CAS scales and that the MLD group contained many students with cognitive weaknesses in planning or successive processing. Moreover, students who had specific difficulties with the acquisition of basic math facts, the automatization of such facts, or word-problem solving were found to have distinct PASS cognitive profiles. In order to investigate the relationships between cognitive abilities and improvement in the mastery of basic math facts and problem solving, 165 of the students with MLD were given a special multiplication intervention. It appeared that the effectiveness of this particular intervention did not differ across the groups of students with specific cognitive weaknesses.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 36, No. 6, 574-582 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/00222194030360060801


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