The Basic Education and Enrichment Program (BEE) was established at Elizabeth City State College in September 1968. Its basic purpose is to offer freshmen innovative educational assistance in acquiring skills needed for the successful completion of college. BEE consists of three types of activities: tutoring sessions, counseling, and testing. All…

This introductory calculus book was especially written for the average or below average student. Its primary intent is to give an overview of basic concepts. Written in programmed instruction format, it contains reviews and self-tests. (Average/LS)

This report is an evaluation of the Committee of Low-Achievers in Mathematics-Denver Area (COLAMDA) Project, a mathematics program involving diagnosis, prescription, and implementation for use with low achievers in grades seven thru twelve. It contains an assessment of 1970-71 project year by a resource technician. An on-site evaluation report…

This is the second report in a series investigating the educational attainment of "atypical" or "new" types of students. In this report, the educational experiences and progress of undergraduate students who were not high achievers in secondary school will be compared with the experiences and progress of those who were. One of the purposes of this…

Two experiments are reported in which a cognitive (attributional) model of achievement motivation is applied to two achievement-related behaviors, persistence and selection of intermediate-risk tasks. Results of Experiment I indicated that S's perceived effort expenditure was related to persistence for high achievers. In Experiment II, high…

This study was designed to assess the validity and reliability of a semantic differential instrument to be used for measuring attitudes of low-achieving elementary school students toward arithmetic. The instrument contained nine concepts and nine adjective pairs. The concepts were: I am, Reading is, Arithmetic is, Subtraction Problems are, Small…

The paper presents a review of research concerned with mathematics and the disadvantaged youth--both environmentally and academically disadvantaged (low achiever, slow learner, underachiever). It is concluded that: (1) in general, mobility has not been found to affect achievement significantly, (2) programed instruction materials do not produce…

In this book, the fate of West Indian children in British schools is attributed to their placement in schools for the "educationally subnormal." It is argued that the cultural bias is inherent in the IQ tests that are used to sort children into one part of the school system or another. This book is written for the West Indian community…

The purposes of this study were to determine whether fourth grade social studies teachers verbally interacted differently with pupils as a function of differential expectations of pupil achievement and to determine whether fourth grade social studies teachers verbally interacted differently with boys and girls. Data were collected using the…

The purpose of this project was to raise the mathematics skills of 100 mathematically retarded students in grades one through eight by one year through the development of an inservice strategy prepared by four teacher specialists. Also used in the study was a control group of 100 students chosen from the median range of stanines on pretest scores…

This study was made to determine if there is a difference in attitudes between average IQ but low achievers in two different school settings. The study was conducted with students in a northern Illinois school which features a school-within-a-school as well as a traditional setting. A questionnaire was administered. This study seems to indicate…

A Ball State University course begun in December 1968 is designed to strengthen and improve the reading and study skills of 50 "directed admission" freshmen: students who have earned low SAT scores and poor high school grades. Prior to the experiment their college attrition rate had been 90%. During the first year large group techniques…

A cognitive explanation of achievement-related behavior is developed. It is suggested that high and low achievers diverge behaviorally in the achievement situation because they conceptualize the causes of success and failure in different ways. The results of a study are presented which show that subjects high in achievement needs tend to attribute…

Suggests that there is an entrenched theoretical framework which underpins the assumptions that women do not want success or do not have the capacity to achieve it. The set of ideas itself serves as a mechanism that keeps women in their place and out of the competition for the good things in life. (Author/AM)

Gainesville Junior College's PEP program coordinates all remedial course offerings within a separate division. This report describes the progress of 222 PEP students, tracing the time spent in the program, success in terms of numbers prepared for college, and the adequacy of this preparation as evidenced by grades earned in appropriate college…