The main purpose of this study was to determine and describe the effects of the comprehension component of the criterion-referenced reading program, Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development (WDRSD), on reading achievement and self-concept of sixth-grade students. Parametric techniques were employed in a quasi-experimental study involving 44…

This study compares the critical-reading strategies of 83 good and 72 poor sixth-grade readers and 96 good and 67 poor eighth-grade readers. After reading seven brief passages on social studies and science topics, the students responded to 42 statements that required either the ability to pull facts together and make conclusions based on unstated…

A study investigated errors in the writing of black students to determine how those errors were influenced by black oral English. Writing samples were gathered from 99 third grade and 68 sixth grade students in a school in an inner city, low income neighborhood. All errors in the samples were listed and analyzed. In the samples produced by the…

The limitations and advantages of any given measure of performance used to classify students as good or poor readers have not been investigated thoroughly. A study was conducted to determine what happens on several dependent measures of comprehension when the same students are separated into good and poor readers based on different criteria.…

This article describes a set of Spanish language materials which were designed to meet the needs of Spanish-speaking children in the intermediate grades who had never been exposed to formal instruction in language arts and reading. The materials were developed by the author in collaboration with the Bilingual Materials Development Center in Fort…

In 1962 and again in 1965, a group of sixth and ninth grade students in selected schools in four Puerto Rican communities were interviewed to investigate the factors influencing students' decision to withdraw from school before completing twelfth grade and to identify some characteristics of dropouts. Of 616 students interviewed in 1962, 20.9% of…

This paper discusses the possible incongruence between the two policy goals of desegregation: assimilation and improvement of intergroup relations through the reduction of prejudice by means of equal status contacts between students. The congruence between the two goals was tested by determining the effects of a school environment conducive to…

READING COMPREHENSION OF BLIND CHILDREN READING BRAILLE SELECTIONS WAS COMPARED WITH COMPREHENSION OF BLIND CHILDREN WHO HEARD THE SAME SELECTIONS AT VARIED RATES. CHANGES IN WORD RATES WERE ACCOMPLISHED WITH SPEECH COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES. APPROXIMATELY 290 BRAILLE READERS OF BOTH SEXES FROM SIXTH-, SEVENTH-, AND EIGHTH-GRADE RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS…

CERTIFIED SCHOOL COUNSELORS WERE ASSIGNED TO TWO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO DEVELOP, USE, AND TEST VOCATIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL MATERIALS. ASPIRATION LEVELS OF STUDENTS IN ONE CLASS EACH IN THE SECOND, FOURTH, AND SIXTH GRADES IN EACH SCHOOL WERE ALSO EXPLORED AND RELATED TO OCCUPATIONAL POTENTIAL. METHODS OF USING OCCUPATIONAL MATERIALS EFFECTIVELY…

A MAJOR GOAL IS TO PROVIDE A PROGRAM OF ENRICHMENT THAT WILL CULTIVATE THE INHERENT POTENTIAL OF THE PUPIL TO BETTER PREPARE HIM TO MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO HIS CULTURE, TO DEVELOP WITHIN HIM AN APPRECIATION OF CONTEMPORARY AND PAST CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY AND TO AROUSE IN HIM A DYNAMIC AWARENESS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD IN WHICH HE LIVES. THE PROGRAM…

ENRICHMENT SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHERS OF GRADES FOUR THROUGH EIGHT IN THE AREAS OF SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND LANGUAGE AND READING WERE PRESENTED. EACH SUBJECT INCLUDED A DESCRIPTION OF THE LESSON, WITH MATERIALS, AND HOW TO EXPLAIN THE PURPOSES. AN EXAMPLE OF A SCIENCE ACTIVITY WAS BUILDING A TEST COIL FOR A SEVENTH GRADE CLASS. THE…

The classroom behavior of 92 black and white sixth graders was observed in a desegregated urban school. Observations were made once a week during a full semester. The sex and race of each student observed and of his or her interactants were noted. Observers also coded characteristics of observed students' interactive behaviors: the tone (positive,…

To test a hypothesis that a positive improvement in attitudes and perceptions of Mexicans and Mexican Americans would result from a special curriculum unit pertaining to Mexican and Mexican American culture, 154 Anglo American and Mexican American children enrolled in 6 sixth-grade classes in Chandler, Arizona, were randomly assigned to control or…

A study was devised for investigating developmental change in the extent to which children use a speech recoding process during silent reading to obtain meaning from sentences. The subjects, 48 second and 48 sixth grade students, were shown a series of single sentences that included equal numbers of sentences at the second, fourth, and sixth grade…

During the school year 1977/78 four computers equipped with LOGO and Turtle Graphics were installed in an elementary school in Brookline, Massachusetts. All sixth grade students in the school had between 20 and 40 hours of hands-on experience with the computers, and the work of 16 students ranging from intellectually gifted and average to learning…