This is a final evaluation report for Atlanta, Georgia's Follow Through Program, a project conducted from 1977-80 to curb low achievement among Project Head Start students as they move through the primary grades. Various program components including psychological, health, and social services, administration, staff development, and parent…

One of a series of papers on a study of the environmental setting of learning disabled (LD) secondary students, the document reports findings on academic self image and attributions for academic failure of 234 LD, 222 low achieving (LA), and 215 normal achieving (NA) students. Ss were asked questions related to their satisfaction with school,…

A study was conducted to gain insight into the question answering abilities of good and poor readers by comparing how well they answered questions when their prior knowledge was at two different levels (high, low) and in four different states. These states of prior knowledge consisted of the ways in which answers to the questions were stored in…

Three local norm methods for deriving Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I normal curve equivalent (NCE) gains are compared to each other and to the usual Model A1 which uses national norms. The 1977-78 Title I evaluation data for Chicago students ages 9-13 were used to estimate gains. Reading and total math scores from the 1971 Iowa Tests…

The problems in implementing and evaluating a television project for teaching reading in thirteen District of Columbia schools are described, and the opinion is offered that the project was successful in producing a rapid improvement in the students' interest in improving their reading ability. Participants were 300 students in grades four through…

This annotated bibliography contains listings of book series and periodicals written specifically for secondary school students who read below grade level. All items listed are reading materials rather than instructional packages and most do not contain questions. Each entry includes publishing information, an indication of reading and interest…

Offering a comprehensive review of Australian research directed toward the study of the language use of children from different social backgrounds, this book assesses the validity of Basil Bernstein's thesis that many lower working class children are confined to a restricted code of language use. This evaluation is set in two wider contexts: what…

In the social learning perspective the anticipation of rewarding consequences serves as one source of motivation. A second results from the perception of a negative discrepancy between present capabilities and desired performance. To foster motlvation it is necessary that persons accurately appraise their capabilities. Techniques for fostering…

Because inexperienced or basic writers depend on the semantics of everyday spoken dialogue when writing, research on written composition and the developmental links between spoken and written language should be more accessible to the practitioners who teach writing to those students. A review of the literature supports the theory of a semantic…

The purpose of this study was to test several hypotheses from self-efficacy theory in the area of children's arithmetic achievement. Fifty-six elementary school children showing low arithmetic achievement were assigned to one of four treatment groups of 12 subjects each (modeling-attribution, modeling-no attribution, didactic-attribution,…

EMPHASIS ON THE TRANSFER CURRICULA AT NASSAU COLLEGE NECESSITATES A POLICY OF SELECTIVE ADMISSION BASED ON PREDICTION OF PROBABLE ACADEMIC SUCCESS. FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE COLLEGE PERMITTED STUDENTS WHO WERE INITIALLY INADMISSABLE FOR FULL-TIME STATUS TO TRANSFER FROM A PART-TIME, PROBATIONARY STATUS AFTER COMPLETION OF THREE EVENING COURSES WITH A…

TO REDUCE THE 35 PERCENT ATTRITION RATE OF FIRST YEAR STUDENTS (1960-61) THE COLLEGE DEVELOPED A BASIC STUDIES PROGRAM TO SALVAGE THOSE WITH LOW ADMISSION SCORES OR SUBSEQUENT ACADEMIC DIFFICULTIES. THIS STUDY EXAMINED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM BY COMPARING THREE GROUPS--(1) THOSE WHO TOOK THE BASIC STUDIES REMEDIAL COURSES BEFORE ENROLLING…

THIS GROUP GUIDANCE PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE (1) A CHANCE FOR SELF-ASSESSMENT OF PERSONAL STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES, (2) IMPROVEMENT OF ATTITUDES IN HUMAN RELATIONS, (3) IMPROVEMENT OF STUDY HABITS AND TECHNIQUES, AND (4) REALISTIC ASSESSMENT OF VOCATIONAL ABILITIES. GROUP GUIDANCE IS INTENDED TO SUPPLEMENT, NOT SUPPLANT, INDIVIDUAL…

TO DETERMINE WHAT KINDS OF PARENT BEHAVIOR ARE RELATED TO THE SCHOLASTIC ACHIEVEMENT OF INNER CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN, 32 HIGH ACHIEVERS AND 32 LOW ACHIEVERS IN THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE WERE SELECTED AND INTERVIEWS WERE COLLECTED FROM THEIR MOTHERS. THE INTERVIEW CONSISTED OF 123 FIXED RESPONSE QUESTIONS. TO ESTIMATE THE VALIDITY OF THE…