A class action suit led to the 1985 closure of a large, publicly funded institution for persons with mental retardation in Oklahoma. This study compared services provided to class members with those not in the plaintiff class. Findings indicated that members of the plaintiff class received substantially more services and a greater share of the…

Examined effectiveness of an intervention involving English- as-a-second-language strategies and effective reading practices for at-risk second-grade English-language learners. Found that students made significant gains on word attack, passage comprehension, phoneme segmentation fluency, and oral reading fluency. Four-week follow-up scores…

The paper analyzes 27 studies to identify guidelines for conducting follow-up or follow-along studies of special education students in transition from school into adult communities. Methodological principles should cover subject sampling, breadth of domains examined, variable specification, instrument development, and other areas. A specific model…

Cognitive and academic behaviors promoted by an ongoing, long-term Direct Instruction preschool project for poverty level children (N=109) are described. Children who received two years of training achieved at substantially higher normative levels than children trained for only one year and this advantage continued in first and second grades.…

Language abilities from age 2-5 were studied in 4 children with early language delays. Deficits became milder and more selective, with normal or nearly normal speech/language proficiency by age 60 months. But at 3-year follow up, 3 of the 4 cases were severely reading disabled. (Author/JDD)

The 1989 followup to a 1979 study of possible trends in the selection of administrators, in response to a 1965 federal executive order, is reported. A trend toward selecting external candidates was found to have continued, with the proportion of women selected increasing very little. (MSE)

This article presents an extended abstract of the summary of a survey of environmental studies programs conducted in 1987 by Disinger and Schoenfeld. Covered are survey procedures, responses, and the status of environmental studies programs. (CW)

Forty-two families with children in transition to early and mid-adolescence were interviewed in a follow-up study of parent-child agreement in beliefs concerning the child, and of children's awareness of parental beliefs. Results indicate increases in accuracy of prediction of parental beliefs by children between the ages of 10 and 13. (RJC)

Follow-up interviews 1 year after exposure to a national school-based personal safety program with 117 children in New Zealand found the children had retained and increased their safety strategies. Highly committed teachers were the most important variable in affecting gains by children. Middle-class children gained more from the program than did…

The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency with which elementary teachers taught science over a four-week period, and which teaching strategies they utilized during that time frame one year after extensive inservice training. Results show 61.5% taught science 16 or more times over the 4 weeks. (LZ)

In a follow-up study, it was found that children with good early phonological awareness had well-developed lexical and sublexical reading and spelling procedures. Results suggest that early phonological skills relate more strongly to the development of sublexical than lexical processing systems. (Author/LB)

There is renewed emphasis on student assessment in adult literacy. Popular methods are instructor-made tests and performance assessment through observation, portfolios, writing samples, audio- and videotapes, and collaborative projects. (SK)

Analysis of 1-year follow-up data of 45 young adults with mental retardation, from diverse cultural, ethnic, and economic backgrounds, indicated that 71 percent were employed during the first 9 months posttraining, with approximately 30 percent of the trainees working for 6 months or more. Overall, 75 percent of the trainees' placements were in…

The relationship between scores on the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT) and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children--Revised (WISC-R) was studied for 13 white and 27 African-American academically deficient male adolescent delinquents. Results support use of the K-BIT as a screening instrument and the WISC-R as a follow-up or comprehensive…

The relationships among grade, substance assessed, and type of measurement and statistical analysis used in the detection of external validity threats resulting from subject attrition in a modal follow-up study were examined in 6 successive 2-year panels of adolescents, including 4,819 overall stayers and 1,897 dropouts. (SLD)