The main objective of this project was to develop effective multi-sensory aids for individual use by high school students who have not achieved a functional mastery of mathematics. Nineteen audiovisual devices directed specifically at the low achiever were developed from three specific devices--audio tape, audio tape with slides, and video tape.…

This is a description and a progress report of the Basic Studies Program at Tarrant County Junior College (Texas), a 1-year program in general education designed for students who rank in the lower quarter of their junior college class and who have experienced little academic success in the past. Communications, humanities, social science, natural…

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of an academic support program on students who had been terminated from Eastern Kentucky University because of academic failure. Specifically it: (1) investigates the effect of improvement in reading comprehension, vocabulary and rate on grade point achievement after students participated in a…

The purpose of this study was to analyze and compare the mathematical achievement and attitude of weak mathematics students enrolled in a two-semester or three-semester ninth-grade elementary algebra course. Teaching methods and attitudes of teachers were also evaluated. The sample was 1,508 students who were enrolled in either the two- or…

Kindergarten Ss were assigned to three treatments. Group I learned words that were self-selected; Group II learned words selected by children in Group I, and Group III learned words common to the vocabulary of young children. Group I Ss scored significantly higher than the control group Ss, supporting the Ashton-Warner hypothesis. Group I ratings…

This was the first phase of a continuing evaluation of a Community College Studies Program designed to provide educational opportunities for the academically under-prepared student. The subject college had always had a remedial program of some type, but it only recently conducted formal program evaluations. The most recent was during the 1967-68…

A study was conducted at Clemson University involving 90 high-risk freshmen who were enrolled in special English sections on the basis of low verbal Stanford Achievement Test scores. Thirty students made up the experimental group, and 60 students, the control group. Students in the experimental group were those who volunteered to take the reading…

Data of a 1970 research project regarding student achievement in science of 36 Australian secondary schools were reanalyzed to examine the effects of schools on science achievement for six schools rating highest above expectation and six schools rating lowest below expectation. Schools scoring above expectation appeared to have good accommodations…

Factors cited as contributing to the denaturing of an American college education include: (1) many graduates are not of college caliber; (2) admissions standards have been lowered; (3) television viewing habits lower reading, speaking, and thinking skills; (4) much material is irrelevant; and (5) taxpayers are reluctant to approve education tax…

The purpose of this study was a close comparison of the academic profiles of delinquents and nondelinquents. It is concluded that corrective and preventive measures used with the academically deficient child might reduce the chances of school personnel contributing to delinquency. (JD)

The Visual Aural Digit Span and Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test were studied with regard to ability to discriminate low from average achievers in reading and arithmetic skills, as identified by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. A sample of 78 normal children aged six through nine were administered tests. (Author)

To help secondary teachers meet the challenge of teaching slow learners and/or other special students, the author relates his experiences with teaching academically below average eighth graders placed in a college level personal typing class, and offers some suggestions for teaching typewriting to the slow learner in a regular class setting. (TA)

The history of the strategy of grade retention for low achieving students is briefly reviewed and conflicts concerning its efficacy are summarized. Current research aimed at identifying specific criteria (including some found to be correlates of learning disabilities) which aid educators in making retention decisions is described. (Author/DB)

Summarizes results from a larger report identifying both school and individual variables related to the test score decline of the 1970s. Public awareness of the relationship between changes in student and school variables and score decline will help prevent another national educational deficit of this type. (LHW)