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Download full textColorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Div. of Special Education Services. – 1993
This document summarizes the final reports of five Colorado classroom projects funded to promote and evaluate effective instructional techniques for students with learning disabilities. (However, the projects also involved students who were not disabled.) The five projects dealt with: (1) effectiveness of using an edu-kinesthetic whole brain…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Improvement
Federal Resource Center for Special Education, Lexington, KY. – 1993
This document examines how to meet the educational needs of children and youth from diverse cultures. Selected data and vignettes are used to provide a context for the lives of children in America. Values that currently drive the educational enterprise are listed, accompanied by a list of reformed values that address the needs of students from…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Needs
Seattle-King County Private Industry Council, Seattle, WA. – 1992
Developed to assist employers in implementing a company-sponsored, on-site workplace literacy program for their employees, this guide is the result of experiences gained by the Seattle-King County, Washington, Private Industry Council, its partner agencies, and participating local employers. The guide contains sections on the following stages in…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Programs, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum Development
Bettendorf, Joline; And Others – 1987
This 13 day curriculum unit is designed for use in English and language arts classrooms, grades 7-12 and junior college. While it is the second section in a series of five on the literature of war and peace, it can be used with or without the other four sections. Each section of the series focuses on a different genre of the literature of war and…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Education
Petzel, Thomas P.; Wenzel, Marc U. – 1993
A Writing Anxiety Scale (WAS) was developed. A literature review and interviews with writing instructors identified nine components of writing behavior (Empathy, Expression, Evaluation by Others, Motivation, Organization, Procrastination, Self-Esteem, Technical Skills, and Writing Anxiety). A pool of 146 items were written to reflect the…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Correlation, Empathy, Evaluation Methods
Roskos, Kathy – 1990
A study examined differences between a prescriptive individualized approach to literacy instruction in adult basic education (ABE) settings. Six ABE classrooms participated in the study with four continuing traditional literacy instruction and two providing whole language-oriented literacy instruction. Average attendance per session was 12 adults.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Classroom Environment, Diagnostic Teaching
Jones, Joan; Jackson, Ronald – 1991
In an effort to determine the relationship between English language/writing skills and academic performance in a college-level U.S. History course, a study was conducted of all students enrolled in freshman U.S. History at Oxnard College (California) in spring 1990. The study sample consisted of 112 students, whose scores on the English Subtest of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Colleges, Comparative Analysis, Grades (Scholastic)
Kalliopuska, Mirja, Ed. – 1989
This publication reports the proceedings of the Fenno-Hungarian Conference on Recent Family Types, which was held in Lahti, Finland, in July, 1989. The purpose of the conference was to discuss the effect of changing social conditions on the family, family types, and home education in Hungary and Finland. A series of papers was presented. Topics…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Athletics, Child Development, Children
Solomon, Alan; Orenstein, Donna – 1991
This study examined the effect of school attendance, use of English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) services, and language spoken at home on Hispanic students' performance. The academic performance of 101 Hispanic first graders in intensive, regular, and bilingual programs was measured by standardized test scores in reading and mathematics, and report…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Bilingual Education, Elementary School Students
Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System, San Diego, CA. – 1990
Homeless individuals are eligible for adult education services, such as literacy training and basic skills remediation, under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act. In California, 7 agencies in 1989 and 13 in 1990 were selected as service providers to serve 100 homeless adults each per project year. Each funded agency assessed…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Programs, Annual Reports
Yagi, Kan – 1990
The purpose of the Chapter 1 Early Childhood Education Program in Portland Public Schools is to provide disadvantaged children the experiences needed to ameliorate the disadvantages resulting from their circumstances. This evaluation report of the 1989-90 school year concludes the program's 18th year of operation. The preschool program consisted…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Interpersonal Competence
Rasinski, Timothy V., Ed.; And Others – 1991
This 1991 yearbook contains five sections: (1) Knowing about College and Adult Literacy; (2) Knowing about Home and Community Literacy; (3) Knowing about Literacy Instruction; (4) Knowing about Teacher Education in Literacy; (5) and Knowing about Teacher Education in the Content Areas. The following articles are included: "Program Evaluation:…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Literacy
Raphael, Taffy E.; And Others – 1991
This paper describes the experience of a fourth- and fifth-grade, first-year teacher's participation in the Book Club Project of the Center for the Learning and Teaching of Elementary Subjects. The Book Club included the use of high-quality children's literature, opportunities for response to literature in multiple ways, and instruction that…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Classroom Research, Cooperative Learning, Discussion Groups
Ross, Steven M.; And Others – 1991
Two programs for providing distance tutoring for at-risk elementary school children were implemented and evaluated in successive years. Each program employed 10 graduate education students as tutors for approximately 25 sixth-grade children, i.e., 2-3 tutees per student. Tutoring exercises were oriented around writing and language skills…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Distance Education, Electronic Mail, Grade 6
Scott-Skillman, Thelma; Ali, Saeed M. – 1991
Through State Legalization Impact Assistance Grants (SLIAG), California is projected to receive almost $2 billion to help deal with the impact of the nearly 1.7 million immigrants who received amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The California State Education Plan for SLIAG, developed by the California Department of…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Citizenship Education, Community Colleges, Educational Needs
