This study was designed to investigate whether direct instruction applied as a main-instructional strategy with a focused curriculum could help students quickly improve their math basic skills. Nineteen students aged 7-16 years old with math problems received individualized treatments for 3 weeks or 12 hours using pre-test, treatments, post-test…

Individualized instruction in industrial arts may be used as a self-teaching method for remedial work and to make possible voluntary, in-depth study in an area of interest to the learner. (MS)

Relates the experiences of a remedial teacher in Great Britain with an intermediate grade boy suffering from high frequency hearing loss, perceptual weakness, emotional maladjustment, poor speech, and reading difficulty in attempting to provide a program suited to his particular needs. (MB)

Paired reading (with a helper) and an individualized approach employing a "pause, prompt, and praise" strategy were found equally effective in a comparison study involving 48 elementary students in Hong Kong with reading problems. Both forms of treatment produced greater gains than normal classroom instruction received by a control…

A study skills program is proposed to help students in developmental programs acquire the real learning process required for success in an academic setting. Based on a developmental, personalized theory of instruction, the program has a general planning and instruction procedure that contains the following three steps: (1) The study skills task is…

A successful remedial reading program in a three-year high school in Las Vegas consists of small, separate, elective reading classes for which students receive credit and in which students are taught by a qualified reading specialist aided by trained assistants. This program uses placement tests and diagnostic tests to prescribe specific…

The "Phonic Remedial Reading Lessons" is a systematic, comprehensive phonics program designed for reading-disabled children. The 77 lessons teach about single letters and single sounds, two-letter sounds, consonant blends, graphemes, exceptions to configurations, and word building. The program's underlying strategies and other…

To some teachers, the term "differentiation" means to do different things for the students who need remediation or who have disabilities. To other teachers, differentiation refers to any provision for student differences, including for those students who are more capable than average. There are also many teachers who do not use differentiation at…

The writing lab at a Florida two-year technical institute is designed to help students fulfill the writing requirements for their technical degree programs. In the lab, developmental students take composition courses that may be substituted for traditionally required composition courses in their programs. Some students take additional writing…

Advocates individualizing remedial writing courses at the college level and describes three programs that emphasize individual placement, focus on student writing rather than on workbook materials, and offer peer tutoring. (MKM)

This discussion asserts that there is no significant difference between traditional instruction and remedial/developmental instruction in improving the academic achievement of skill-deficient students. Because the cognitive style of each learner reflects how learning tasks are approached and completed, matching strategies are needed that deal with…

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…

This report includes evaluations of four New York City school district educational projects funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The Intensive Reading Program offered concentrated, individual reading instruction to needy open enrollment children as well as some indistrict pupils. The program's objectives…

There is a need for reading instruction at the college level because (1) no matter how much reading instruction a student has had, he or she can benefit from more; (2) it is not until college that some students realize how important reading is; and (3) many students make it to college who are still poor readers. A successful developmental reading…