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Edmonton Public School Board (Alberta). – 1977
A primary-level compensatory language arts and reading program for nine inner city schools in Edmonton, Alberta, is described briefly. During 1976-77 the program served 146 students, mostly in their first year in the program. Half of these were recommended to be returned to regular classes for the following year. Children were selected for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Foreign Countries
Knight, Michael E. – 1979
This program was designed to improve reading and mathematics achievement by directing intervention toward diagnosed deficiencies in these areas. Two thousand thirty-five students in grades one through nine participated in the reading component. Diagnostic-prescriptive teaching approaches were implemented in both components with an emphasis on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
GORDON, MORTON J. – 1960
A PILOT STUDY WAS REPORTED ON THE USE OF A COMBINED TELEVISION-CLASSROOM GROUP PROGRAM IN REMEDIAL SPEECH INSTRUCTION. THE SAMPLE CONSISTED OF 535 PUPILS FROM THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF HAWAII WHO WERE DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS (1) TELEVISION-CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, (2) NON-TELEVISION-CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION, AND (3) NORMAL THIRD-GRADE INSTRUCTION IN…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Television, Elementary School Students, Program Evaluation
Download full textMilwaukee Public Schools, WI. – 1967
The Voluntary Reading Center Project was designed to extend regular reading center activities beyond normal school hours in order to serve more students. A total of 101 students in nine secondary schools received instruction for one semester; a total of 100 students in three secondary schools received instruction for two semesters. The project was…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Questionnaires, Reading Centers, Reading Development
Sciara, Frank J.; Patton, Don C. – 1975
The authors advocate the use of a pupil typology in which the variables of sex, race, family status, and I.Q. range are combined to form a pupil classification system. This systematic arrangement of data when combined with change in pupil performance, allows the creation of local norms. A scheme for comparing the change in pupil performance among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Moore, William; And Others – 1973
A 2-year study of the Extreme Learning Problem (ELP) Programs in six school districts in Oregon was conducted to determine if ELP programs were changing students' reading behaviors, to measure the extent of any change, and to determine what factors contributed to changing the reading behavior of children served. The following were among the major…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
McKinney, James D.; Krueger, Marion – 1974
Reported were first and second year data on the Models for Educating the Learning Disabled (MELD) Project, as well as a followup study of students who had participated in the MELD Project. First year data was based on a sample of 108 children in first through fourth grades, while second year data reported a sample of 97 children in first through…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research
Brown, Alberta; And Others – 1972
The Pyramids' Reading Program, with the Instructional Materials Center (IMC) and the Combine Component, operates in Minneapolis public and parochial Target Area elementary schools to help improve the reading skills of educationally disadvantaged children. The IMC writes, produces, and distributes the reading material used in the program, and the…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Instructional Materials
Meredith, William V.; Biller, Julian H. – 1971
The primary objective of the Title I Reading Project was to improve the reading skills of sixth- and seventh-grade underachievers. Treatment consisted of individualized programs based upon diagnostic testing in reading. Project classes in nine and 11 schools at the sixth- and seventh-grade levels, respectively were evaluated. Selected pupils were…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Individualized Programs, Program Descriptions
Trismen, Donald A.; And Others – 1975
Since July 1971, the Educational Testing Service has planned and conducted a study of compensatory reading programs in United States public schools. This volume reports the results of the 1972-1973 school-year study (phase two), which involved pre- and posttesting of all students in the second, fourth, and sixth grades of a subsample of the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, National Surveys, Program Evaluation
RMC Research Corp., Arlington, VA. – 1976
Selected results from a study of compensatory reading programs sponsored by Title I and by other sources are presented and discussed. Various phases of the study included a questionnaire survey of a nationally representative sample of elementary schools, pre- and posttesting of students in grades two, four, and six of a subsample of the original…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
NJEA Review, 1978
This article notes some of the criticisms of government-funded compensatory education programs found in two recent reports: the Rand Report on Federal Programs and the Meissner Report on the status of New Jersey's state-funded remedial programs. (SJL)
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Failure, Federal Programs
Hosey, Joseph G.; Rapaport, Chester R. – Journal of Business Education, 1976
Presents a brief study of a cooperative program to improve reading skills. (TA)
Descriptors: Business Education, College Students, Core Curriculum, Educational Research
Peer reviewedKotnik, Louis J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 1974
Summarizes characteristics of underprepared students and remedial programs undertaken at various institutions. Indicates that most of the programs are unsatisfactory, and the students' weaknesses primarily result from poor mathematics preparation and reading ability, lack of inductive and deductive reasoning, and communications deficiencies. (CC)
Descriptors: Chemistry, College Administration, College Science, Learning Problems
Gibbons, Maurice – Interchange, 1970
Descriptors: Classification, Correspondence Study, Educational Objectives, Individualized Instruction
