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The research project was designed to test the efficacy of the Hairy Bikie metacognitive strategy. Forty-two students who had sustained a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury were randomly assigned to one of three groups: the cognitive training group (CTG), the placebo group (PG) and the control group (CG). The CTG and the PG were each involved in a 20-week individual intervention program that was delivered at the student’s school. The CTG students were taught to use the Hairy Bikie (HBMPC) problem solving plan which was printed on labels for them to place at the back of all of their writing books. The PG were involved in an individual 20-week intervention program that focused on reading comprehension exercises. The CG received no intervention.
The results of this study indicated that there was a significant improvement on a measure of executive function based on the Tower of Hanoi, for adolescents with moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries who were provided direct instruction on the use of a problem solving plan. The results also revealed a strong trend in teacher-reported behaviours mediated by executive functions from the direct intervention group with an improvement on pre and post-testing of more than 0.5 standard deviations.
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Baron Levi, J. (2020). The Research Project. In: The Hairy Bikie and Other Metacognitive Strategies . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46618-3_13
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