For many years (1995-2002), the Department of English of the University of Blida witnessed low rates of academic achievement of students preparing an English Degree. An analysis of the second year students' course grades in academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 and data from a preliminary survey with some teachers reflected signs that the…

The study attempts to demonstrate movement in adult learning from particularization to symbolization to internalization (value choice) through use of a Counseling-Learning Model. Adult resistance to learning is dealt with through application of counseling awarenesses to the learning situation. If the adult learner can be freed from threat to…

A multi-faceted study followed up 800 children originally administered SCREEN, a comprehensive early identification screening battery. Ss were given an individually administered diagnostic battery: The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) Verbal Scale, The Beery Visual Motor…

The basic question considered in this research practicum was did female students' participation in a special six-week mathematics clinic significantly reduce anxiety towards mathematics. Seventeen female participants completed both a pre and post Aiken-Dreger Math Attitude Scale. A t-test was used to compare the mean pretest and mean posttest…

The purpose of this study was to determine what children's books have been written which can be used in bibliotherapy for the purpose of helping children and adults become more aware of the struggles, concerns, and personal issues that confront children who have learning disabilities. There is a need for this type of children's literature that…

This dissertation study examined the hypothesis that kindergarten teachers in Rockville, Maryland, perceive that they can identify children with potential or actual learning disabilities as effectively by informal observation techniques as by the use of the structured Maryland Systematic Teacher Observation Instrument (MSTOI). A survey instrument…

This action research project describes a program for improving reading fluency in order to increase reading rate and raise comprehension. The targeted population consisted of second and third graders in a middle class community, located in a suburb of a large metropolitan area. The problems of lack of reading fluency and low comprehension were…

The purpose of this project was the establishment of materials suitable for slow learners in a life science program. The research focused on the development and testing of an eight-week study in life science and evolved through three phases: preparation, writing, and assembly of a student text and a teacher's handbook; preliminary testing during a…