Data from questionnaires completed by 44 Child Service Demonstration Centers were analyzed, providing information on the number of children served, the definition of LD (learning disabilities) used, the kinds of assessment data collected and the purpose for which they were used, the specific assessment devices used to collect data and the purpose…

A nationwide sample of 49 school psychologists and 30 regular education teachers provided information on assessment for the purpose of instructional planning. School psychologists listed the types of information they collected for this purpose and teachers listed the types of information they considered useful. While some indications of agreement…

The effects of five elaboration conditions on the paired associate learning of 50 educable mentally retarded children (mean age 9 years) were investigated. Four of the conditions were included in a two factor design (type of relation x familiarity); the fifth (nonsense condition) was included as an outside control. Ten children were tested in each…

Described is the evaluation of the pilot-test version of the Measurement of Length Unit , part of an instructional program developed by the Vocabulary Development Project, with 80 educable or trainable mentally handicapped primary grade children in either special classes within regular schools or in special schools. Feedback for the formative…

Preliminary data were analyzed from 37 learning disabilities (LD) teachers and 36 school psychologists on the information considered useful in instructional planning and the greatest needs of LD students. Results indicated that standardized devices were considered most useful in instructional planning by both groups. The Wechsler Intelligence…

Described is the evaluation of the pilot-test version of the Calendar Unit, part of an instructional unit developed by the Vocabulary Development Project, with 43 educable mentally retarded primary grade children from either special classes within regular schools or from a special school. Feedback for the formative evaluation came from comments of…

The effects of five verbal elaboration conditions on the paired associate learning of 50 elementary-aged educable mentally retarded children were investigated. Four of the conditions, crossing functional and positional relations in familiar or unfamiliar events, were included in a two-factor design (type of relation x familiarity); the fifth…

The ability of 23 educable mentally retarded children (mean chronological age, 9 years) to transfer verbal elaboration techniques to a labeling task was tested following one, two, or no elaboration experiences. An additional 18 retardates were tested in two outside control conditions to identify the effects of reversal experience on acquisition…

The performance of 272 elementary school aged educable retarded children was used in the final evaluation of the five unit Money, Measurement and Time program. Criterion referenced pre- and posttests were administered to assess the effectiveness of each unit, and A Cognitive Abilities Test evaluated Ss' general improvement in non-content-specific…

The pilot version of the Measurement of Weight Unit of the Money, Measurement and Time Program was tested with 23 higher functioning educable mentally handicapped (EMH) children (5- to 8-year-old) from regular preprimary classes and with 17 lower functioning EMH children 8- to 10-years-old) from special classes. Pre- and posttesting, teacher…

Two studies investigated characteristics of verbal elaborations (length and number of relations provided by the syntactic construction) to determine what makes them effective mediators for young children. Study I treated the role of an elaboration's length in facilitating paired associate learning in 22 nursery school children. Data indicated that…

Four groups of educational decision makers rated the influence of nine pieces of information on the decsions they made about the educational placement of a handicapped elementary class child. Information regarding the sex, socioeconomic status (SES), and physical attractiveness of the student had an insignificant effect on decisions. Information…

The effectiveness of the Time and Money units (which involve language and vocabulary in teaching time and money concepts to primary level retardates) was investigated with 112 nonretarded, 133 educable mentally retarded, and 115 trainable mentally retarded children. (SBH)

The relative effectiveness of three types of elaboration (sentences, semantic paragraphs, and syntactic paragraphs) on paired associate learning in 75 educable mentally retarded Ss was tested under list lengths of eight, 12, 16 and 24 pairs. For all lists except the eight pair list, the elaborators were found to be equally and highly effective as…