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Peer reviewedRamey, Craig T.; And Others – American Journal of Mental Deficiency, 1978
Information available from birth certificates was used to preduct the psychological and educational status of approximately 1,000 randomly sampled first-grade children. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children, Prediction
Peer reviewedStriefel, Sebastian – Psychological Reports, 1974
Testing of the television preference of twelve retardates showed that the preference technique seems adequate for ascertaining some of the reinforcing variables in the television programs. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Handicapped Children, Mental Retardation, Predictor Variables
Peer reviewedBrekke, Beverly; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
A modified version of Furth's 13-step conservation of weight problem was administered to 72 legally blind children, 6-14 years of age. A total of 46 of the subjects resided in institutions for the blind, and 26 subjects lived in a family situation. Both the sighted group and the blind group living at home conserved more often than the…
Descriptors: Blindness, Conservation (Concept), Family Environment, Handicapped Children
Download full textBarnard, Kathryn E., Ed.; Douglas, Helen Bee, Ed. – 1974
Presented are 13 papers describing the Seattle Project and reviewing the literature relevant to the project's purpose of developing and testing an assessment format to enable nurses to better identify health and developmental problems in children. Six papers pertaining to predictor variables cover the areas of prenatal and perinatal factors,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Disabilities, Etiology, Evaluation Methods
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 24 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: the relationship between home environment and reading achievement in Puerto Rican pupils; the relationship between magical thinking and reading skills in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Students, Cognitive Style, Deafness
Peer reviewedGwinn, Diane G. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1978
An instrument for identifying disturbed and normal third to fifth grade children was evaluated. The instrument employs verb choices in a forced-choice sentence-completion format. A cross-validation procedure established high percentages of correct classifications. (Author/JKS)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Forced Choice Technique, Handicapped Children
Suppes, P.; And Others – 1973
From some simple and schematic assumptions about information processing, a stochastic differential equation is derived for the motion of a student through a computer-assisted elementary mathematics curriculum. The mathematics strands curriculum of the Institute for Mathematical Studies in the Social Sciences is used to test: (1) the theory and (2)…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Deafness, Elementary School Mathematics, Handicapped Children
Peer reviewedEdelbrock, Craig – School Psychology Digest, 1979
Studies using parent and teacher ratings have corroborated several syndromes characterizing disturbed children. Classification categories must be devised and made available to practitioners. Cluster analysis has been used in one research program to classify children with similar patterns of reported problems. (Checklists and rating scales are…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Classification, Cluster Analysis
