Generally low achievement among blacks was attributed to general patterns of community oppression. Low achievement motives were linked to the caste-like occupational structure, whereas low achievement value orientations were associated with perceptions of opportunities for mobility among blacks. (Author)

Describes the experimental project of the Baltimore City Public Schools to prevent development of learning disabilities and to reduce the number of school dropouts within the population identified as educationally disadvantaged. (Author/MB)

The results of a study of UICSM materials for seventh and eighth grade low achievers show that students studying Stretchers and Shrinkers learned just as much arithmetic as students in traditional programs and that students studying Motion Geometry did significantly better in arithmetic application and total score on the Stanford Achievement Test…

The author and a colleague introduced a program where the students decided what they would learn for the year. The result was a film designed, researched, acted and produced by the students. The process of filming Of Mice and Men" rather than the product counted the most. (Author/AS)

Study results indicate that high achieving groups place more emphasis on academic superiority and do more to encourage good study habits than do low achieving groups. (CJ)

Questions radiological physicist Ernest J. Sternglass's theory that links falling Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores in the 1960s and '70s to nuclear weapons testing in the late '40s, the '50s, and early '60s. Notes other scientists' contention that Sternglass's theory only establishes a correlation, not a cause and effect relationship. (JBM)

Research on how teachers treat low-achieving students is briefly noted. It seems apparent that these students are being given a poor self-image. (MNS)

Cross-validated the factor analysis of the McCarthy Scales and determined construct validity for children who score one standard deviation below the normative mean on general cognitive ability. Findings discourage interpretation of the Quantitative Scale for school-age children with General Cognitive Indexes below 84. (Author)

Data indicated that high percentages of fifth- through eighth-grade low achievers had high algorithm confidence for the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. A substantial proportion in each grade expressed a low degree of confidence in their computational method for division. (CM)

Describes "Booktime," a modified form of sustained silent reading that produced positive results with first-grade poor readers. (FL)

Concludes that adjunct questions can significantly improve low achieving high school students' reading comprehension. (FL)

Concludes that a systematically organized program of group counseling and tutoring did not produce significant changes in the attitudes, reading ability, and grade point averages of academically deficient students who had returned to college after military service. (FL)

The cognitive profile is a basic determinant of a student's level of academic achievement and can identify learning defects contributing to low achievement. (Author/JD)