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Download full textGorth, William Phillip – 1970
The relation between teaching activities and evaluation is often hampered by test results returned which are too late to be of use, are difficult to interpret, or poorly correlated with curricular objectives. A synergistic relation, on the other hand, can produce greater student learning than either teacher or evaluation can produce alone.…
Descriptors: Achievement Rating, Behavioral Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Ellison, Martha – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 1972
Author discusses the goals of open classroom" teaching, notes the contrast between traditional teaching methods and those of open education, while suggesting that those who believe in the new techniques start demonstrating to the public that chaos or abdication of the school's responsibility will not result. (PD)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Decision Making, Educational Innovation, Individual Differences
HARRIS, ALBERT J. – 1965
A DESCRIPTION IS MADE OF AN ATTEMPT TO APPLY TO FIRST GRADE READING INSTRUCTION THE IDEA THAT CHILDREN CAN BENEFIT WHEN THE TEACHING OF READING IS ADAPTED TO THEIR COGNITIVE STYLE. PRETESTING WAS DONE TO DISCOVER THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES IN LEARNING APTITUDES, AND THE TEACHING PROCEDURE WAS MODIFIED TO EMPHASIZE COMPARATIVELY STRONG ABILITIES.…
Descriptors: Aptitude, Beginning Reading, Cognitive Ability, Grade 1
COFFMAN, ALICE O.; DUNLAP, JAMES M. – 1967
THE OBJECTIVE FOR THIS STUDY WAS TO FOSTER PREKINDERGARTEN CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT THROUGH A PERSONALIZED PROGRAM BASED ON ASSESSMENTS OF EACH CHILD'S DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS, USING NEW TESTS AND INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS ADAPTED TO INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. OF FOUR EXPERIMENTAL CLASSES, THREE FOCUSED ON AN AREA OF WEAKNESS (MOTOR, AUDITORY-LANGUAGE, OR…
Descriptors: Audiolingual Skills, Auditory Discrimination, Basic Skills, Child Development
Jens, Dorothy – 1970
Project Genesis is a preventative program which tries to identify potential learning deviancies before children enter kindergarten, and which provides individualized programming to offset future learning problems. Clinics held in the spring test each child entering kindergarten the following fall on perceptual-motor abilities, hearing, speech,…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Developmental Programs, Educational Diagnosis, Grade 2
University City School District, MO. – 1970
The prediction of achievement provides teachers with necessary information to help children attain optimal achievement. If some skill prerequistites to learning which are not fully developed can be identified and strengthened, higher levels of achievement may result. The Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) are routinely given to all University City…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests
Jablonsky, Adelaide – IRCD Bulletin, 1968
This report discusses some "promising" compensatory education programs and presents statistical estimates which identify the disadvantaged population to be served by such programs. The discussion is based on observations of school systems and programs in all sections of the country and on interviews with over 200 educational administrators who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescents, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Students
University City School District, MO. – 1969
A 30-minute screening battery of tests and subtests selected from the complete 90-minute battery used in USOE Prekindergarten-Kindergarten research plus three locally developed instruments were identified as the most satisfactory single measures of cognitive, motor, auditory, visual, visual-motor coordination, and language development to provide…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Basic Skills, Behavior Rating Scales, Cognitive Development
