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McLarty, Joyce – 1982
Educators designing procedures for identifying students as learning disabled are faced with serious technical difficulties. A student with a learning disability is one who "has a severe discrepancey between achievement and intellectual ability" in one or more designated areas. The methods of quantifying achievement, intellectual ability,…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Correlation, Evaluation Methods, Handicap Identification
Peer reviewedReynolds, Maynard C.; And Others – Remedial and Special Education (RASE), 1992
Use of a "days to learn" measure of progress in reading and arithmetic at the elementary level was found to be an effective measure for early identification, but the 183 students in the Chapter 1 or special education programs did not show acceleration in progress when receiving extra help from special teachers. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Identification, Educational Assessment
