Examining early intervention programs initiated in the 1970s that were designed to facilitate intellectual development of at-risk groups of children provides valuable information about program development and can act to facilitate discussion regarding the underlying values of such programs. This book is an updated account of Project Enhancement, a…

This report describes a program designed to enhance social studies skills and knowledge. The target areas for enhancement are geography skills and community understanding. The targeted population is a second grade class in a rural Midwestern setting. The need for strengthening these skills was documented by observation, checklists, surveys, and…

This bulletin attempts to present: (1) the comparative extent to which farm and nonfarm groups are receiving public secondary education; and (2) the relation of significant factors concerning high schools and the farm population to participation in secondary education by farm children. The data here presented must be regarded as incomplete but…

The present experiment was designed to vary observation and evaluation independently of each other in an orthogonal design. (Author)

Discusses some children with whom the author has worked, and how the current definition of intelligence and the use of testing have affected their lives and then suggests some ways private groups can be involved in solving the problem. (Author/JM)

Study looks at the problem of creativity test selection by examining the relationships between 15 divergent and non-divergent tests. (Authors)

Suggests ways of changing negative concepts in low-ability children (DS)

Reported was a followup study of intellectual and nonintellectual predictors at second or fifth grade levels of later high school achievement level and status of about 150 subjects. (DB)

Results were interpreted as supporting an inhibition deficit theory of mental retardation. (Authors)

Study attempted to examine the long range effects of ITA. (MB)

The present study explores the specific environmental influences in the intellectual development of 24 adoptive infants living in middle class families. (Author)