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ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1978
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 15 titles deal with the following topics: remedial reading teacher attitudes, how parent training in behavior modification and transactional analysis affects remedial reading instruction, the effect of role change on the reading…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Doctoral Dissertations, Elementary Secondary Education
Palow, William P. – 1978
The assessment and placement system used in the Mathematics Learning Center of the New World Center campus of Miami-Dade Community College uses two test inventories: (1) a multiple choice mathematics test geared to the course which the student wants to pursue; and (2) the Canfield-Lafferty Learning Styles Inventory designed to determine an…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Mathematics, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Rosenblatt, Richard D. – 1979
The effectiveness of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I reading and mathematics laboratories were evaluated to assess the improvement of underachieving elementary school students' academic skills. Laboratory students were selected on the basis of academic (rather than socioeconomic) criteria in grades 2 through 5; the control…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Analysis of Covariance, Compensatory Education
SULLIVAN, NEIL V. – 1968
THE BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, PLAN FOR DESEGREGATING THE CITY'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS IS REVIEWED IN THIS REPORT. THE PLAN DEALS WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT ORGANIZATION, INSTRUCTIONAL NEEDS AND CHANGE, TRANSPORTATION, AND FINANCING REQUIREMENTS. IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE CITY HAVE FOUR EXPANDED ATTENDANCE ZONES, EACH CONTAINING ONE SCHOOL WITH GRADES ONE…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Finance
Beitler, Lorraine – 1976
In an effort to bring entering allied health students to college-level reading ability, a Science Reading Program based on the theory that adult learners will be more motivated to improve reading skills if material is related to career preparation was designed, implemented, and evaluated. After pre-testing on the Nelson-Denny Reading Test (Form…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Content Area Reading, Developmental Programs
Spear, Barbara E. – 1979
A program for adults with learning disabilities is being conducted at the Educational Testing and Learning Clinic (ETLC) at Orange Coast College (OCC). The program has five components. In order to enroll, the student's basic skill level must be below the eighth grade in reading, spelling, and writing, and below the sixth grade in mathematics. The…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Community Colleges, Diagnostic Tests, Educational Testing
Sanger, Clyde – 1977
A pilot project (to run from 1974 to 1979) to improve the delivery system of primary education in rural areas of the Philippines (Project Impact) and Indonesia (Proyek Pamong) is described in this progress report. Underway in seven villages, the experiment (aimed specifically at increasing schooling opportunities for young people in the Third…
Descriptors: Autoinstructional Aids, Community Involvement, Coordinators, Cost Effectiveness
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Holiman, Marjorie A., Ed.; And Others
The Career Information Center (CIC) handbook is designed to serve as a reference work or blueprint containing a rationale and specific how-to suggestions to support and guide the user's development of a CIC that fits local needs. The format of the handbook is intended to indicate the major steps in the planning, development, and operation of a…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Advisory Committees, Career Education, Information Centers
Quincy Public School District 172, IL. – 1975
The overall objective of Career Education Through Multi-Experience Centers is to develop and implement a comprehensive career education program for special education in the Quincy, Illinois public schools. Part one of the report provides statistical data on the project. The bulk of part two analyzes the progress made toward accomplishing the…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning
Christine, Emma Ruth – Aduiovisual Journal of Arizona, 1974
To attempt to make learning American history an exciting experience, to sharpen study skills and self-directed learning and to familiarize students with library resources, an experimental sequence of two-week "independent miniunit programs" was established. Eight areas of American life were identified: sports, space and ocean,…
Descriptors: American Culture, American History, Educational Development, Educational Innovation
Parmer, Lorraine – 1975
This paper describes several learning laboratory program approaches to teaching students how to prepare for professional school admission exams. That these exams are true aptitude tests is a myth repeatedly deflated when students study for the tests and manage to score significantly higher on a second testing. Factors in addition to intelligence…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Anxiety, Business Administration, Developmental Programs
Point Pleasant Beach Board of Education, NJ. – 1968
This is one unit of the series described in SO 000 378. Agriculture is the broad term applied to such widely divergent topics as America's settlement, the West in American History, rural culture and philosophy, and government planning as it affects the American Farmer. The specific objectives of this unit are to help students to understand these…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Interdisciplinary Approach, Learning Activities, Learning Laboratories
Gueller, Betty; Frey, Virginia – 1973
This handbook describes an application of the learning centers concept at the kindergarten level. The "learning centers approach" refers to a unique and systematic way of organizing for learning. Each separate "learning center" is a compact, transportable instructional package keyed to at least one specific learning outcome.…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Classroom Environment, Developmental Tasks, Educational Innovation
Herickes, Sally, Ed. – 1971
The following types of audiovisual equipment are catalogued: 8 mm. and 16 mm. motion picture projectors, filmstrip and sound filmstrip projectors, slide projectors, random access projection equipment, opaque, overhead, and micro-projectors, record players, special purpose projection equipment, audio tape recorders and players, audio tape…
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Audiovisual Aids, Carrels, Catalogs
Kilchenstein, E. Dolores; Pasewark, William R. – 1971
Developed as a performance-based plan, the Business Education Learning System (BELS) proposes ways to prepare non-degree students for office occupations and to prepare degree students for teaching and administrative positions. Special features designed into the system include: (1) the Office Service Center (OSC)--an actual campus business operated…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Bound Students, Curriculum Development, Job Analysis
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