Based on an empirical study of over 3,000 learning disabled children and on a review of research, the paper outlines intellectual, attention and verbal mediation, social-affective, and oral and written characteristics of learning disabled students. Among the findings reported are the following: the median educational retardation is one grade below…

The relationship of boys' and girls' level of aspiration (LOA), achievement motivation, manifest anxiety, and intelligence to persistence behavior was explored in this study. Forty boys and 40 girls (ages 11-13) from two Catholic schools participated in this study. To measure subjects' persistence and LOA, subjects were given 5 sets of puzzle…

The predictive validity of the Slosson Intelligence Test, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Goodenough-Harris Drawing Test, Developmental Test of Visual Motor Integration, and the Metropolitan Readiness Test was evaluated for use with kindergarten children. The criterion measure was the California Achievement Tests administered when the children…

The study attempted to determine the effects of chronological age (CA), mental age (MA), IQ, sex, and the content of eight Aesop's Fables on the ability of 56 mentally handicapped children (26 boys, 30 girls; 7 to 18 years old) to interpret the stories' morals correctly. After reading the fables, which were chosen to illustrate the virtues of…

The perceptions of parents of 113 developmentally delayed preschool children were compared with mental ages derived from the Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale and the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale. With the parents as informants, an Alpern-Boll Developmental Profile was completed. Findings demonstrated a high degree of correlation between the…

This annual report contains a summary of the research which has been carried on in the department during the 1978-1979 academic year, and information about its organizational structure, objectives, instructional programs, computing facilities, interaction within the university, and interaction with the computer and information science community.…

The paper examines the usefulness of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) subtest score pattern for distinguishing between groups of handicapped children, specifically learning disabled and emotionally disturbed students. The author asserts that no single clear cut pattern characteristic of either population is likely to…

THE DESIGN OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DISCOVER BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTICS AMONG THE ACHIEVERS AND UNDERACHIEVERS AMONG MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WHICH WILL DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THEM FOR PREDICTIVE PURPOSES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUMS. THE MAJOR OBJECTIVES WERE TO ESTABLISH (1) PATTERNS OF DEVELOPMENTAL BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN WITH RETARDED MENTAL…

TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS WERE STUDIED IN TERMS OF RELATIONSHIPS AND RELEVANCY TO EFFECTIVE TEACHING, INCLUDING SUCH TRAITS AS KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT MATTER, SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE, KNOWLEDGE OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, ACHIEVEMENT AND AFFILIATION MOTIVES, PROFESSIONAL ATTITUDES, AND KNOWLEDGE OF ABILITIES AND BACKGROUNDS OF THEIR STUDENTS. DATA…

THIS PROJECT INVESTIGATED THE FACTORS OF "DIVERGENT PRODUCTIVE THINKING" WHICH CONTRIBUTE MOST TO CREATIVE BEHAVIOR. TWO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS WERE INVOLVED. ONE WAS RELATIVELY LARGE, IN A MODERATE-INCOME AREA. THE OTHER WAS SMALLER, AND WAS SITUATED IN A PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY. IN THE SMALLER SCHOOL SOME 220 STUDENTS WERE TESTED IN TWO…

THIS STUDY WAS AN EXTENSION OF CRP-2284, WHICH RELATED METHODS OF PROGRAM USE TO LEARNER CHARACTERISTICS. 74 GRADE 8 STUDENTS TOOK A PROGRAMED COURSE IN GENERAL SCIENCE IMPLEMENTED IN 4 WAYS, (1) IN-CLASS STUDY WITH TEACHER-SCHEDULED PROGRESS RATE OR (2) STUDENT-SCHEDULED RATE, AND (3) OUT-OF-CLASS STUDY WITH TEACHER-OR (4) STUDENT-SCHEDULED RATE.…

IT IS GENERALLY RECOGNIZED THAT COMPATIBILITY IN ADOPTION DEPENDS ON A SOUND EVALUATION OF THE ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND OF THE INFANT AND THAT THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILD ARE SERVED BY EARLY PLACEMENT IN A PERMANENT HOME. EARLY ASSESSMENT OF THE INFANT, ON WHICH PROPER PLACEMENT IS DEPENDENT, MUST BE PRIMARILY PREDICTIVE. HOWEVER, EXISTING INFANT…

THE CALIFORNIA MEXICAN-AMERICAN EDUCATION RESEARCH PROJECT INITIATED AN ASSESSMENT PROPOSAL DIRECTED TOWARD MORE EFFECTIVE EDUCATION OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN WASCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. A SAMPLE OF THIRTEEN STUDENTS FROM EACH GRADE, PRE-SCHOOL THROUGH TWELVE, WAS RANDOMLY SELECTED FROM STUDENTS WITH SPANISH SURNAMES…

AN ASSESSMENT PROJECT TO EVALUATE THE EDUCATIONAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEMSELVES AND THE CULTURE-AT-LARGE WAS INITIATED SO THAT CURRICULUM APPROACHES AND EDUCATIONAL TECHNIQUES APPROPRIATE TO THEIR NEEDS COULD BE DEVELOPED. THE SAMPLE CHOSEN FOR THE STUDY WERE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH SPANISH…

MENTAL RETARDATION IS DEFINED AS A MENTAL DEFECT, NOT A DISEASE. LEVELS OF SEVERITY IN MENTAL RETARDATION ARE CAUSED BY AN INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS CONCERNS THE LONGER LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THE RETARDATE DUE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN MODERN MEDICINE. THIS IS CREATING A SITUATION WHERE RESIDENTIAL…