The Board of Education of the Houston Independent School District, through the Volunteers in Public Schools, organized the Kindergarten Screening Project in 1970. The screening instruments and procedures were developed by a committee of specialists composed of representatives from the Houston Independent School District, Baylor College of…

As an aid in devising individualized programs for handicapped students, the document presents a breakdown of developmental skills. Behavioral statements are arranged hierarchically for eleven skill areas (subskills in parentheses); gross motor (walking, eye/arm coordination, singing), fine motor control (grasp, block manipulation, and finger…

Available in English and French and intended for parents and professional workers such as nursery school teachers and day care workers, the handbook provides information on the way visual impairment affects the child's development and instructions for guidance in the early years. Sections cover the following topics: reactions to blindness by the…

Data collected in 1976 and 1977 point to significant differences in reading and related language skills achievements between male and female students in Wisconsin in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades. There are four theoretical explanations of this "achievement gap": interest in subject matter, sex role expectations, the earlier maturation of…

This paper describes an external evaluation study of the Responsive Environment Early Education Program (formerly known as the Responsive Environment Program for Spanish American Children), an educational intervention program for "high risk" (low birth weight) 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children in Clovis, New Mexico. Major goals of the…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles are concerned with a variety of topics related to the following: the use and teaching of English in bilingual, bidialectal, and bicultural situations, including studies of reading achievement and dialect; language…

The first section of this publication describes five competency models designed to provide guidelines for formulating competencies and related assessment procedures for preparing teachers in speech communication and theatre. One of the five models delineates those communication and theatre competencies to be achieved by all teachers; the others…

This is an evaluation report of a New York City school district educational project funded under Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The program was designed to provide bilingual instruction to pregnant school-age girls who were two or more years below grade level in reading and mathematics. It was also designed for…

The purpose of the clinical and guidance services component of the Central Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I Remedial Services for Eligible Nonpublic School Pupils Program was to enhance the behavior of children in relation to specific instructional skills areas. The component included students who were diagnosed as needing various…

To facilitate the international exchange of educational information contained in scholarly journals, and to test the operational tools of the EUDISED network of national agencies specializing in the electronic data processing of educational information, abstracts of 300 articles from education sciences periodicals published in 1975 were compiled…

This publication describes classroom activities that English teachers can use in helping junior high school students to explore individual career goals. Designed to increase students' awareness of occupations related both directly and indirectly to English skills, the activities are organized into four sections: (1) Who Am I? (2) What Are the Life…

This volume presents an overview of police communications and analyzes the relationships between the people and hardware in the police system. Chapters discuss the development and use of such communication devices as the telegraph, telephone, and computers; the role of mass media, feedback, and communicative settings in human communication;…

The primary focus of this book is upon the training of local writers to enable a preliterate, minority language group to produce reading materials that reflect the cultural interests and desires of the group. The training program described in the book involves three components: intensive linguistic study culminating in a tentative orthographic…

Suggestions are presented to assist the nontechnically trained English as a second language teacher to create a syllabus for a technical writing course for foreign students who are studying science and technology. The syllabus for the English for Science and Technology (EST) writing course is based on the format of technical writing derived from…

This description of the difficulties of school library and community information services in a developing country includes forceful images of a rural indigenous people with little self-known history, and widely separated by a wild and rough terrain and diverging cultures--all of which conspire as obstacles to the spread of library and school…