The Advisory Board of the Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse suggests six characteristics that define effective literacy coaching. These characteristics can guide districts and schools to think carefully about the qualifications of the literacy coaches they hire, the realistic roles for coaches to fill, and the support systems that coaches need to be…

The approach to learning disabilities emphasizes the potential for learning by any organism in extraordinary environmental conditions regardless of the severity of the handicap. (MC)

The article discusses the relationship between mental health and labor accidents as it pertains to accident prevention, treatment of accident victims, and their rehabilitation. It also comments briefly on mental health and occupational diseases and the scope of the field of occupational mental health from a Chilean perspective. (AG)

Twenty-five retarded and 25 nonretarded children, mean age 16 and 9 years respectively, matched for mental age, performed two-bit (four-choice) and three-bit (eight-choice) problem solving tasks to determine whether group performance differences would increase with task complexity and whether performance of the retarded children would be poorer.…

Selections from the article originally printed in "Review of Educational Research" (Vol. 41, No. 5 1971, 511-535) are reprinted. The authors consider whether a teacher can get good ratings from students by assigning good grades. Findings are reported and it is concluded that student ratings can provide valid and reliable information on…

The author distinguishes between social worker accountability, a product of intent, and effectiveness, the level of performance that derives from being accountable. It should be sufficient, he feels, to demonstrate that the profession is acting accountably. Client expectations, social worker-supervisor interaction, and social work education are…

One-hundred children (mean age 10 years) who had been referred to an interdisciplinary learning disabilities group were described on the bases of physical and neuropsychological status, intelligence, level of reading and school achievement, and family background. (Author)

Most striking finding was the mean 10-point IQ incn programs which utilize the discovery of such IQ increases as evidence development

It was found that the measure of adjustment was significantly related to mathematics performance after the effects of anxiety and intelligence were partialled out. (Authors)

Results lend partial support to the proposition that the effectiveness of a particular rehearsal strategy depends on the degree to which it provides a discriminative cue for the materials on hand: With homonym pairs, imagery constituted such a discriminative cue, while vocalization did not; with synonym pairs, the converse was true. (Authors/CB)

In both studies reported here, high trait anxiety was associated with high levels of state anxiety, and constructed response groups had higher levels of state anxiety than reading groups. (Authors/CB)

Results of the study indicate that regardless of the presence or absence of verbal approval by the examiner during the administration, there was no significant difference in children's test performance on the WISC. (Author)

Deficits in position memory particularly seemed to be the major distinguishing variable between normals and retardates in the present study. (Authors)