Instructional development, particularly for the severely and profoundly handicapped, should stress the delineation of clearly stated functional goals and objectives and the use of systematic instructional strategies to facilitate the acquisition and generalization of target skills. (Author)

The study compared training in two language systems for three severely handicapped, cerebral palsied, nonvocal adolescents: the Bliss symbol system and an iconic picture system. Results showed that students learned iconic symbols faster, maintained higher percentage of iconic pictures, gave more correct responses during generalization probes for…

An instructional procedure composed of a graded sequence of prompts and token reinforcement was used to train three mildly/moderately retarded males (12 to 24 years old) in a complex chain of behaviors which included sorting, washing, and drying clothes. Follow-up probes demonstrated maintenance of laundry skills over a 10-month period. (Author)

Using a learning strategies approach, the article outlines specific procedures to promote acquisition and generalization of learning strategies in LD adolescents. First, students are taught a specific strategy in isolation before being asked to apply it to controlled materials and later, to transfer the strategy to regular class content. (Author)

A study examined whether a single subject methodology that provided for alternate exposure to contexts and definitions would provide results similar to an earlier study in which one group studied contexts while a second group studied definitions. (HOD)

Didactic instruction and role play training appeared to produce generalized increases in vocationally oriented social skills for four emotionally disturbed adolescents in a residential program. (CL)

The ability to generalize is probably the primary aspect of intelligence. The computer's inability to generalize is the major stumbling block associated with machine intelligence. (Author/CP)

The Generalized Expectancy for Success Scale was assessed for its psychometric properties. Results indicate that GESS has acceptable test-retest reliability, high internal consistency, and minimal relationship with social desirability. Predicted relationships between high generalized expectancy for success, depressive symptomatology, and…

Evaluated generalizability of findings that male and female patients receive differential psychiatric treatment. Comparison of outpatients on demographic, clinical, and self-report measures of mood, symptoms, and interpersonal concerns revealed no sex differences. Results indicated that with samples of male and female patients, there were no…

Most research on educational policy making in Britain has depended on the case study approach. This article outlines the procedures, advantages, and theory of this approach and then discusses the problem of trying to generalize from case studies. (WD)

The effectiveness of strategy training programs that differed in the degree of subject self management required on the verbal abstraction performance of 80 educable mentally retarded children and adolescents was compared. In terms of acquisition, all three training conditions, irrespective of the degree of self management required, were superior…

This operational theory of adult learning is based on the premise that learning is a problem-solving process involving attention, differentiation, structuring, integration, abstracting, and generalization. (Journal availability: Department of Adult Education, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.) (SK)

Results of a study involving 10 mentally retarded and 10 nonretarded (mean age 16 and 4 years, respectively) indicated high levels of acquisition and maintenance for both groups. No difference occurred in magnitude of acquisition, but the mentally retarded Ss took approximately three times as many trials to complete training. (Author/CL)

The authors emphasize the need for developing educational interventions that encourage generalization in learning disabled students from one set of responses to another. (CL)

Thirty mildly retarded children (mean age 9 years) participated in a study in which 24 of the children were trained to a prespecified criterion on one of three logical operations tasks involving length: identity conservation, equivalence conservation, or transitivity. (Author)