In a study designed to discover whether interest in reading materials influenced a student's comprehension, 47 seventh grade students, reading one to two grade levels below their grade placement, were assigned a self selected story of high interest and a story of low interest. The 12 short story selections were assembled on the basis of research…

A study was made of the importance to reading comprehension of using the author's top-level organization or textual schema. The subjects, 102 ninth graders with high, average, and low reading comprehension scores, read expository passages, some of which included signals explicitly stating the top-level organizational structure and some of which…

The purpose of this study was to gain information which would be helpful in designing and implementing a mathematics clinic in a university setting which would serve three purposes: provide remedial instruction for elementary- and secondary-school under-achievers, provide a situation in which the process of learning mathematics might be studied,…

This text is one of the sequence of textbooks produced for low achievers in the seventh and eighth grades by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). There are eight texts in the sequence, of which this is the fifth. This set of volumes differs from the regular editions of SMSG junior high school texts in that very little reading is required.…

This text is one of the sequence of textbooks produced for low achievers in the seventh and eighth grades by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). There are eight texts in the sequence, of which this is the seventh. This set of volumes differs from the regular editions of SMSG junior high school texts in that very little reading is required.…

Through the nineteen-forties, fifties, and up to the mid-sixties, achievement test scores steadily increased. Since then, many test scores drop. The reported test score declines are more dramatic in recent years and most evident for higher grades. They are specially pronounced in verbal tests, but hold for nearly all tested areas. Specially:…

This study investigated the effect of a system of guided note taking and study skills on the academic achievement of entering University of Idaho freshmen with low predicted-grade-point averages. Of 61 subjects, 14 were randomly assigned to a treatment group receiving twelve lessons in note taking and study skills over a period of six weeks. The…

This report describes the exemplary programs of ten open-door institutions participating in a project supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. The project aims at evaluating and refining programs for students who enter college as low achievers, students who have traditionally been discouraged from pursuing…

Two studies were conducted in which low achieving high school students were given motivational workshops in order to help them improve their career maturity and to understand the processes involved in making wise career choices for themselves. It was hypothesized that in the experimental groups which received career counseling the student's career…

Summative evaluation of an ESEA Title III project designed to raise the mathematics achievement scores of low achievers in grades 10 and 11 is reported. In a summer writing project, teachers developed 21 arithmetic modules and 11 algebra modules for use by students on an individual basis. Students used the modules at their own pace and stayed with…

This study was designed to compare the effects of the traditional teacher-centered mathematics classroom with that of a laboratory-based program, on achievement and attitudes of low-achieving seventh graders. Five teachers and 87 pupils participated in the study for 101 days. Mental ability was measured by the SRA Primary Mental Abilities Test,…

The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of tutoring low achievers on the concepts of carrying and borrowing before they were introduced in the classroom. Twelve low-achieving second-grade students were tutored on these concepts. The tutored children, along with members of two control groups, participated in a pretest covering these…

The Homework Helper Program with 100 centers in New York City, serving 1500 tutors and 4500 tutees, helps both tutors and tutees. Tutors (disadvantaged secondary school students) are paid $1.50-$2.00 an hour which helps them stay in school and gives them experiences of "success." Tutees (fourth, fifth, and sixth grade pupils performing…

This study describes the use of (1) a clause analysis technique reflecting a sketch of the core grammatical system of English based on a tagmemic model and (2) limited individual instruction in a small number of principles of expository writing to increase the composition skills of students who had previously been obtaining failing grades in their…

This paper reports the results of a ten-week study investigating the use of electronic calculators to perform basic operations with rational numbers in ninth-grade mathematics classes. In all, six classes and 101 students were involved. A short literature review is given and three treatments are described. Dependent variables were five mastery…