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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Strategic Planning/Research and Development. – 1991
A study described the 1989-90 Chapter 1 Developer/Demonstration Program, Learning to Read through the Arts (LTRTA), and evaluated the effectiveness of its implementation. The program offers intensive reading and reading-oriented arts instruction to Chapter 1-eligible students. Of the 797 students served by the program, 98 were ungraded special…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Educational Research, Elementary Education
Davis, Barbara; Luvaas-Briggs, Linda – 1983
In response to the academic needs revealed by students' reading scores and faculty perceptions of students' skill deficiencies, Sacramento City College (SCC) developed two programs of integrated skills and content instruction. Using a team-teaching format, the HELP (Higher Education Learning Package) and Adjunct programs seek improvement of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, High Risk Students
Lazdowski, Walter P. – 1986
In an effort to reduce attrition and save valuable educational assets, the Developmental Education Department at El Paso Community College developed two new 3-hour courses, which students can enroll in and complete at any time during the year. The two courses, College Prep Reading Development and College Prep Study Skills Development, were…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, High Risk Students, Individualized Instruction
Download full textSmith, Jeffrey K.; And Others – 1981
The original impetus for this monograph was a grant from the New Jersey Basic Skills Council of the New Jersey Department of Higher Education to evaluate two college basic skills remedial programs (one in a four-year state college, one in a two-year community college) and to produce a handbook for conducting such evaluations. This monograph is…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Basic Skills, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Furcron, Margaret – 1978
The basic components of the basic writing program at Rutgers University, designed to prepare disadvantaged students for the core course in English, are a combination of reading and writing activities with as much individualized instruction as possible. The components include three courses, a learning center, and an annual workshop in the teaching…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Carter, Nancy Hay – 1976
"Project SAILS" (Symbolic and Innovative Language Systems) is a special program developed by the Portland, Oregon, public schools for training teachers to work with children who have learning and reading difficulties. Teachers are instructed in the use of the Monterey Reading and Language Programs, highly structured and highly…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Instruction, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Beck, Ray – 1976
The booklet describes a precision teaching program for the remediation of children with learning deficits in grades K-12 which enables the teacher to use an accurate means of describing and measuring performance on a direct and daily basis and provides a behavioral formula for programing and analyzing social and academic behavior, interpreting…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Charts, Data Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
Aarons, Howell – 1975
In order to assess the effects of the remedial (foundations) program at Mohegan Community College (Connecticut) on students' academic performance and persistence in college, a study was made of 180 students who had enrolled in the Foundations Program between September 1971 and 1974, and 180 students who had scored below the 50th percentile on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Dropout Prevention, Grades (Scholastic)
Logan, Juanita – 1976
The Talking Typewriter program has operated in the Cleveland Public Schools as a strategy to improve the reading skills of identified fourth and fifth grade pupils in Title I schools. A responsive environment, augmented with selected materials, special teaching techniques, and the availability of trained staff formed the core of an instructional…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Program Content, Program Descriptions
Bursik, Jake; Kerkes, Thomas – 1974
The principal purposes of the preparation program at North Central Technical Institute (NCTI), Wausau, Wisconsin, were to provide opportunities for certain students to further their general academic development and to explore various vocational fields. Students intended for the preparatory program were those identified by their high school records…
Descriptors: Academically Handicapped, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Individualized Instruction
Martin, Peter A. – 1970
School districts in New York State have been engaged in developing E.S.E.A. Title I projects since 1965. This document represents an attempt to formulate some aspects of this experience in a form useful for project directors. The content of this report is based on the recorded experiences of one school district during the summer of 1970 in running…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Education, Problem Solving
Scales, Alice M.; And Others – 1976
This after-school remedial reading program is designed to make it possible for people without extensive training to improve the reading skills of community children. Competencies to be achieved, criterion behaviors for instructors, criterion behaviors for children, and instructional materials are outlined. Suggestions are included for budget…
Descriptors: After School Education, After School Programs, Community Involvement, Curriculum Guides
Wakulla County Board of Public Instruction, Crawfordville, FL. – 1976
This paper describes an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title IV program designed to improve the reading achievement levels of kindergarten through second-grade pupils in Wakulla County, Florida. The Multisensory Approach to Reading and Reading Readiness Curriculum (Project MARC) combined structured teaching techniques and materials with…
Descriptors: Developmental Reading, Inservice Teacher Education, Low Ability Students, Primary Education
Fryburg, Estelle L. – 1975
Presented is an evaluation of a program providing physically handicapped and mentally retarded children (4-21 years old) in 19 special educational facilities in New York City with an intensive remedial program in reading and mathematics. The program, involving instruction by paraprofessionals of a minimum of 1/2 to 1 hour each week for a total of…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Handicapped Children, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics
Levy, Marguerite F. – 1976
Presented is an evaluation of a program providing mentally retarded students in two occupational training centers who were two or more years retarded in reading and/or mathematics with individual or small-group instruction supplementing the basic program. It is noted that 110 participants were given 2 hours, 15 minutes a week instructional time by…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Research, Individualized Instruction, Mathematics, Mental Retardation
