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Rousseau, Marilyn K.; Poulson, Claire L. – 1985
Three academically deficient and behavior disordered male students, 9 to 13 years of age, participated in a treatment program to improve their written composition skills. A multiple-baseline across-subjects design was used to analyze the effects of three treatment procedures on the number and variety of adjectives per T-unit (minimal terminable…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Behavior Disorders, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
McIntyre-Hosler, Ernestine – 1993
This practicum developed a self-recording procedure as a strategy for increasing on-task behavior, academic achievement, and self-esteem of 12 students (grades 6 to 8) with emotional disabilities in a self-contained class over a 12-week period. Students were taught to self-record at gradually decreasing frequencies as well to use their judgment in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Control, Emotional Disturbances, Intermediate Grades
Chula Vista City School District, CA. – 1983
Suitable for those contemplating a program alternative to school suspension, this student handbook describes a special class for middle school students who have been removed from their regular classes because of serious behavior problems. Separate sections describe the nature of the class, reasons for the students' placement in the class, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavioral Objectives, Discipline Policy, Intermediate Grades
Sangster, Sandra; Erling, Sally – 1986
The academic progress and self-concept of North York (Ontario, Canada) learning-disabled and educable retarded students were studied, with particular reference to the effectiveness of placement in mixed exceptionality versus single exceptionality programs. Information was gathered from the published special education literature, students' files,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Mild Mental Retardation
Seaman, Janet A. – 1986
The resource manual is intended to provide information for inservice training on current legislation, activities, and teaching techniques related to adapted physical education for California educators including special education teachers, resource specialists, and regular physical education teachers. The manual is divided into four modules. The…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Definitions, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1986
The Texas Education Agency bulletin examines aspects of physical education for students with handicaps. Following a statement of philosophy, the guidelines address the following topics: assessment (characteristics of motor assessment instruments); the developmental program plan (program organization, descriptors and skills for essential elements);…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
McCann, Richard A. – 1986
This report reacting to three papers presented at the conference on compensatory education with special reference to Chapter 1 of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act of 1981 focuses on a series of topics pertaining to the relationship between compensatory education and regular education. The report begins by summarizing the conclusions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Compensatory Education, Coordination, Disadvantaged
Singer, Judith D.; Raphael, Ellen S. – 1988
The study estimated per pupil expenditures for a stratified random sample of 571 special education students in three metropolitan school districts--Charlotte-Mecklenburg (North Carolina), Milwaukee (Wisconsin), and Rochester (New York). The study used data collected in 1982-83 from parent interviews, teacher interviews, and the student's school…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student, Instructional Student Costs
Risley, Gary W. – 1977
Compared with 14 hearing impaired students (grades 4-9) in either integrated or self contained classes were student achievement and social development, teacher variables, and parental understanding and expectations. Ss' cumulative records were used to obtain IQ and achievement data; Ss were given a self concept rating scale; parents and teachers…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Deafness, Decision Making, Educational Programs
Feigenberg, Marvin Edward – 1979
The study involving six Philadelphia schools was designed to validate the Circle Test of Honesty as a prescreening technique for identifying candidates for placement in emotionally disturbed (ED) classes. A search of the literature revealed a lack of research correlating moral judgment with identification of disturbed children or with rate of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Quay, Herbert C. – 1966
This conference paper stresses that children's behavior disorders can be modified in the classroom if they are considered as a constellation of specific behaviors rather than as deviant personality traits or disease entities. To do so, however, the children must be approached within the framework of an empirically-based classification system. A…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
Rhodes, H. C. – 1977
Presented is the complete report from an evaluation of special education services in Alberta, Canada (1975-1976). The first section details the relationships between predictor variables (such as pupil density; annual per pupil expenditure, and mean salary of teaching and administrative staff) and the proportion of students served. Reviewed in the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Exceptional Child Research, Foreign Countries, Handicapped Children
Davis, Earl E.; And Others – 1975
Described is the Psychoeducational Agency/School System (PASS) Model Project which is providing full or partial services to approximately 152 learning disabled (LD) elementary school children. It is explained that the project involves planning, implementing, and evaluating a replicable delivery system of resource and special class services…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Education
Proger, Barton B.; And Others – 1976
The problem of variability of data, even in presumable homogeneous subgroupings of handicapped children, which contaminates the results of many special education curriculum evaluation studies is examined with a study of 103 second-grade learning disabled students. The distortion of statistics calculated on samples of extreme variability; coupled…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Curriculum Evaluation, Exceptional Child Research
Yard, George; And Others – 1976
Presented is a three-part paper on a project to train teachers to work with severely behaviorally disordered (SBD) or autistic-like children. In the section on the state school system and needs, J. Heskett covers such topics as characteristics of the SBD child, local education agencies participation in the SBD project, and future expansion of SBD…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Educational Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
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