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Peer reviewedSmith, I. Leon – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1974
A canonical correlation model was applied to data on 36 primary level classes for educable mentally retarded students to determine whether classroom means and standard deviations on a criterion variable were predictable from classroom means and standard deviations on input measures. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary School Students, Exceptional Child Research, Mental Retardation
Download full textSteele, Joe M. – 1974
Whether grouping children into special classes on the basis of IQ scores is educationally defensible was investigated using 492 educable mentally retarded (EMR) students, 12-15 years of age, during two field tests (1971-73). The curriculum used was the Me and My Environment biological sciences program. The following three test instruments were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Exceptional Child Research, Intelligence Tests, Mental Retardation
Proger, Barton B.; And Others – 1976
The problem of variability of data, even in presumable homogeneous subgroupings of handicapped children, which contaminates the results of many special education curriculum evaluation studies is examined with a study of 103 second-grade learning disabled students. The distortion of statistics calculated on samples of extreme variability; coupled…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research
