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Download full textHausman, Ralph M.; Apffel, James A. – 1968
The differential effects of the final revision of Levels 1 and 2 of the Peabody Language Development Kits (PLDK) on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) profiles of young disadvantaged black children were studied. Contrasted with 90 control subjects were 90 experimental subjects who received a daily 30-minute oral language…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Black Youth, Child Language
Dunn, Lloyd M.; Mueller, Max W. – 1967
The differential effects of the experimental revision of Level 1 of the Peabody Language Development Kits (PLDK) on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) profiles of disadvantaged first-grade children were studied. Contrasted with 203 control subjects were 529 experimental subjects who received a daily 30-minute oral language…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Youth, Child Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Hurley, Oliver L.; And Others – 1976
The question of whether Black children "peak" earlier than White children in auditory sequential memory (ASM) was investigated in 122 Black children and 120 White children in grades k-3 in two racially mixed schools in a large southern community. Each S was given the ASM subtest of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities. Results…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Research
Stephenson, Bobby L. – 1970
The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the patterns of psycholinguistic abilities of lower and middle class Negro and white children. The subjects for the study were 160 second grade children in the 90 to 110 IQ range from Northeast Louisiana. They were subgrouped by race and social class (lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle,…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Black Youth, Language Ability, Language Learning Levels
Peer reviewedGrill, J. Jeffrey; Bartel, Nettie R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1977
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education
Peer reviewedArnold, Karen South; Reed, Lauren – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1976
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Levine, Murray; Donlan, Kaye – 1966
A tutoring program developed for first grade inner city children, employing student teachers as tutors, is evaluated in this report. Tutoring had no discernible effect on performance on the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Ability. However, tutored children were placed in the highest reading group, and were rated as having completed the first…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 1, Individual Instruction
Cowles, Milly; Daniel, Kathryn Barchard – 1978
This report describes an attempt to break the socioeconomic educational poverty cycle of rural black children in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Early childhood education was identified as the area for the greatest concentration of effort. Training and retraining of instructional staff was mandated. Twenty-two kindergarten classes were placed…
Descriptors: Blacks, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedDuchan, Judith; Baskervill, R. David – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1977
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education
Maxwell, Katherine Gant – 1974
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there were significant relationships between the 12 subtest scores of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) and the seven scores of the verbal and figural tests of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). The subjects were a stratified random sample of 40 second grade…
Descriptors: Black Students, Creativity Tests, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Research
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA. – 1969
The kindergarten Learning to Learn Program was designed to help children acquire flexible strategies for dealing with challenges and problems. The pupils in both experimental and control groups were from a low income black neighborhood. The program was organized around a carefully planned sequence of language and mathematical games and game-like…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Development, Compensatory Education, Early Childhood Education
Deutsch, Cynthia P.; Schumer, Florence – 1970
During the two years of research reported here, an attempt was made to differentiate those participants--all fourth graders--in an enriched educational program for disadvantaged ghetto children in several Harlem public schools who were thought to profit from a compensatory program, from those who did not. The guiding hypothesis is that the styles…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Compensatory Education
GRAY, SUSAN W.; KLAUS, RUPERT A. – 1967
THE EARLY TRAINING PROJECT IS A FIELD RESEARCH STUDY WHICH IS CONCERNED WITH THE PROBLEM OF THE PROGRESSIVE RETARDATION OF THE CULTURALLY DEPRIVED IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THE CHILDREN INVOLVED IN THE STUDY WERE ALL NEGRO. FROM A GROUP OF 61 CULTURALLY DEPRIVED NEGRO PRESCHOOL CHILDREN, 3 GROUPS WERE CONSTITUTED BY RANDOMIZATION. THE FIRST OF THESE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Blacks, Control Groups, Disadvantaged
Leventhal, Donald S.; Stedman, Donald J. – 1967
The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) is a psychodiagnostic instrument devised to assess theoretically discrete and basic cognitive skills. In its genesis the ITPA, comprising nine subtests, was designed to provide independent estimates of a child's level of functioning in each of the nine abilities theoretically addressed. Factor…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cognitive Ability, Diagnostic Tests, Early Childhood Education
BARRITT, LOREN S.; AND OTHERS – 1967
A STUDY WAS CONDUCTED TO ASSESS THE CHANGES IN THE PSYCHOLINGUISTIC FUNCTIONING OF NEGRO AND WHITE KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST-GRADE PUPILS ONE YEAR AFTER THE INTEGRATION OF SIX SUBURBAN SCHOOLS. THE ILLINOIS TEST OF PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ABILITY WAS ADMINISTERED BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL REASSIGNMENT TO PUPILS IN (1) THE PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO URBAN SENDING…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Cognitive Ability, Control Groups
