American society has been and is beset by contradictions and the best that can be said for it is that it has manifested good intentions and poor performance. Merit and money, education and success - in short, all the keys to advancement in American society until recently - have been closely guarded from those citizens who lacked the proper…

A major problem in higher education today is that of providing educational programs for students of diversified educational backgrounds. One possible solution is to use the systems approach in the basic studies of general education to provide instructional patterns that can be accommodated to the individual needs of all students. This study set…

This report of remedial education at University of California--Berkeley assumes that students should be given adequate information about academic demands and their own capabilities, that they have the responsibility to prepare themselves in advance for these demands, that they should have access to academic support services on campus, and that…

To determine the effectiveness of a program for reteaching writing skills, students from ten intermediate classrooms in three schools, who achieved poor scores on a screening instrument or received teacher evaluations indicating low skill levels, participated in this study. An experimental group of 78 subjects received a pretest, a program of ten…

Concludes that any systematic and well-organized approach addressing basic reading skills will provide reading improvement, since both approaches that were examined (DISTAR and the Integrated Skills Method) show the same degree of success. Considers diagnostic instruments not particularly useful in planning remedial instruction, but recommends…

Addresses administrative questions surrounding the design of remedial programs. Focuses on administrative support, organizational structure, internal program design, testing programs, and program outcomes. Lists factors to be considered in designing and evaluating developmental studies programs. (AYC)

An evaluative study was carried out by the author to determine the effects of an art-based remediation program on the psycholinguistic abilities of twenty learning disabled children. (Author)

This study, conducted through the Postsecondary Quick Information System (PEQIS) of the National Center for Education Statistics, was designed to provide current national estimates of the prevalence and characteristics of remedial courses and enrollments in degree-granting 2-year and 4-year postsecondary institutions that enrolled freshmen in fall…

A study explored the holistic nature of reading failure from the perspective of those who have endured the emotional and intellectual burden of not being able to read. Reading failure is frequently viewed from a fragmented, reductionist perspective. Getting to know and understand the individual's perception of literacy failure is ignored in the…

Describes an individualized remedial reading program where students choose their own reading lessons within a framework structured by the teacher. (TO)

Compared were the visual-emphasis, auditory-phonic, kinesthetic, and Orton-Gillingham methods of remedial reading which were used singly with four groups of third graders (for a total of 136 students). (Author/MC)

Urges mobilizing all school resources for maximum support of the remedial reading program with special emphasis on use of the library. (RB)

Describes an individualized multi-media remedial reading program incorporating performance contracting. (TO)