The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a classroom-based strategy instruction package grounded in self-regulated learning. The Self-Regulated Assignment Attack Strategy (SAAS) targeted self-regulation of assignment management and related academic-behavioral variables for 6th grade students in resource support classrooms. SAAS was…

A sequential model is proposed for educating gifted students from elementary through high school. Operational assumptions of the program are listed and components of junior high school phases discussed. Such a program is recommended as differential, optional, and testable, and parts of the model have been tried successfully. (MJL)

Eight learning disabled junior high school students were taught goal-setting and self-regulatory skills in a resource room setting. The goal-implementation strategy was effective in increasing some students' rates of assignment completion in the resource room and in the regular classroom. (Author/ABB)

This study was a follow-up to a 1993 study which surveyed Iowa school districts to compare types of programs for gifted students in Iowa with the 16 types found in a 1985 national survey (the Richardson study). The present study examined the five program types which the 1993 study identified as having a large number of characteristics…

Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue…