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Download full textDurward, M. Lynne – 1973
Grade six and seven students at South Hill Elementary School were involved in the study to evaluate computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in arithmetic. The pupils were divided into three groups: the members of the "Computer Group" each received five minutes of CAI in arithmetic per day in addition to regular arithmetic classes, the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Program Effectiveness
Brown, Edward K.; Theimer, William C., Jr. – 1968
In 1966, Powel Elementary School initiated an ungraded system to discover if this program would meet the needs of its students and community. In 1967-68, an evaluation of this ungraded program was made to determine if the reading and arithmetic performance levels of the students at Powel were higher than those of a matched graded school. An…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Elementary Education
Reiss, Philip – 1975
Provided is an evaluation report of a special education program in New York City designed to improve the reading and arithmetic skills of brain-injured children in mainstream classes (grades 1 through 8). An assessment of the extent to which participants improved in reading and mathematics and a study of the extent to which the actual program…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities
Moodie, Allan G.; Hoen, Robert – 1972
DISTAR programs were used in learning assistance classes at five Vancouver schools during 1971-72. Those pupils who were taught with the DISTAR Arithmetic program made sizable gains in scores on the Arithmetic subtest of the Metropolitan Achievement Test, but the difference between the gains made by experimental and control groups in arithmetic…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Elementary Education, Instructional Systems
Ogletree, Earl J.; Ogletree, Gerda S. – 1976
The Direct Instructional System for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (DISTAR) was developed to provide beginning and remedial instruction to disadvantaged children. This paper describes the DISTAR reading program, noting its heavy emphasis on programmed learning and repetitive drill exercises; it then cites the opinions of proponents and opponents…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Beginning Reading, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth
Hoen, Robert R. – 1972
This study was designed primarily to evaluate the effectiveness of three multi-age classes at Carnarvon School, Vancouver, B.C. (each class having an age range of three years: ages 6-8, 7-9, 9-11) in developing children's self-concepts and attitudes toward school. No significant difference was found between the multi-age and regular classes in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Comparative Analysis
Bush, Steven J.; Karas, Shawky F. – 1971
The Waterbury Board of Education is currently operating a Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) project. It includes the Adult Basic Education Program and Occupational Skill Training. The program provides basic elementary education to individuals functioning at or below the third grade level in arithmetic and English, as well as those who…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Analysis of Covariance, Arithmetic
BERNHEIMER, PAULINE S.; FORMAN, LOUIS S. – 1964
THE AIMS OF THE MCKINLEY SCHOOL WERE TO INCREASE ACHIEVEMENT IN BASIC SKILLS, TO ENRICH AND ENLARGE THE EXPERIENTIAL BACKGROUND OF THE CHILDREN, TO ESTABLISH A CLOSER LIAISON BETWEEN THE SCHOOL, THE HOME, AND THE COMMUNITY, TO DISCOVER LATENT TALENT, AND TO DEVELOP POTENTIAL IN AN ATTEMPT TO RAISE EACH INDIVIDUAL'S SELF-IMAGE. THE TEACHERS'…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Background, Basic Skills, Behavior
Searle, Barbara; And Others – 1976
The Radio Mathematics Project was established to design, implement, and evaluate a prototype system of teaching elementary mathematics using radio as the major medium of instruction. Daily mathematics lessons were presented to first and second graders in rural and urban primary schools in Nicaragua. Lessons had a radio and a postbroadcast portion,…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations, Educational Media
Otto, Henry J.; And Others – 1969
Nongradedness is a type of internal organization for a school that groups students on the basis of an intergrade plane. This approach attempts to adapt instruction to individual differences. Grouping principles include physical factors, social maturity and personality factors, mental maturity, academic status, and teacher personality within the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anxiety, Arithmetic, Bibliographies
Kirkness, Verna J. – 1976
Aims, design, curriculum materials, and evaluation results of a bilingual education pilot project which began in 1971 in several Manitoba schools are presented in this handbook. Designed to instruct native children in their own language, the project was begun to combat high failure and dropout rates among native children being taught wholly in…
Descriptors: American Indians, Arithmetic, Bilingual Education, Canada Natives
Brown, Edward K. – 1972
A systematic study of the composition and dispersement of Title I projects assigned to elementary schools in Philadelphia was conducted. Categorical variables were identified from four major derived variables (program density code, school aggregate fund, pupil service component, achievement-growth differential score) and four major demographic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Peer reviewedCobb, Paul; And Others – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
Compared project (n=79) and nonproject (n=111) third-grade students on their conceptual development in arithmetic, their personal goals in mathematics, and their beliefs about reasons for success in mathematics. Project students attained more advanced levels of conceptual understanding and held stronger beliefs about the importance of working…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Attribution Theory, Beliefs, Cognitive Measurement
