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Hughes, John; Petscher, Yaacov – Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2016
The high rate of students taking developmental education courses suggests that many students graduate from high school unready to meet college expectations. A college readiness screener can help colleges and school districts better identify students who are not ready for college credit courses. The primary audience for this guide is leaders and…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Screening Tests, Test Construction, Predictor Variables
Office of Safe and Healthy Students, US Department of Education, 2017
This guide offers information that can help parents raise drug-free children. Parents may read it from front to back like a book, or pick a topic from the Table of Contents and go directly to that page. This guide includes: (1) An overview of substance use among young people, with a special focus on how it affects academic performance; (2)…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Academic Achievement, Risk
Toker, Mary Lou; And Others – 1978
The resource teacher manual describes a program model for delivery of services, within the concept of mainstreaming, to secondary students who are mild to moderate behaviorally disordered. Following introductory and overview sections, a student placement section discusses student screening, diagnosis, and placement procedures and gives examples…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Emotional Disturbances, Instructional Materials, Mainstreaming
Tongue, Cornelia; Sperling, Charmian – 1976
Presented is a model designed to aid school personnel in identifying gifted and talented children. In the chapter on problems and challenges of identification, the inadequacies of standardized group intelligence tests are pointed out and factors contributing to the broadening of the concept of giftedness are outlined. Stressed in chapter 2, on…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Conceptual Schemes, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2005
Treatment Improvement Protocols (TIPs), developed by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), are best-practice guidelines for the treatment of substance use disorders. CSAT draws on the experience…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Confidentiality, Mental Disorders, Substance Abuse
Wendt, Robert; And Others
The Early Childhood Prekindergarten Assessment Instrument is a criterion referenced approach designed to help locate the child along a developmental curriculum sequence. Certain skills are analyzed according to auditory, visual, motor, and verbal learning processes, and determine what level the child has attained prior to entering school. Along…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Behavioral Objectives, Criterion Referenced Tests, Developmental Stages
Calcasieu Parish School System, Lake Charles, LA. – 1976
Described in the curriculum guide is the SPARK (Seeking Purposeful, Analytical, Realistic Knowledge) Program designed for gifted and talented students in grades 6-12 in Calcasieu Parish (Louisiana). In an introductory section, brief segments cover such program elements as background, philosophy, rationale, goals, teacher and student objectives,…
Descriptors: Activities, Bibliographies, Community Role, Conceptual Schemes