Examines the thesis that the junior college is an intricately ordered mechanism for structuring and concealing the mass failure of the academically non-gifted students. (RB)

Reviews the current research on developmental English instruction, concluding that more evaluation of college level remedial programs should occur. (RB)

An interim "In Progress" (IP) grade is suggested to replace D's and F's in remedial composition courses. (JH)

To design effective remedial phonics instruction, it is necessary to examine both learner characteristics and task requirements. The paper integrates research related to information processing and psycholinguistics to formulate questions which can be used to evaluate techniques and materials used with a learning disabled population. Information…

Remedial writers tend to be students who have never written very much, who come from families or neighborhoods in which more than one language may be spoken, and who have sensed their problems but have been unable or unwilling to do much to alleviate the difficulties. Unfortunately, the environment and attitudes of many college remedial programs…

INSTITUTIONS WHICH EDUCATE TECHNICIANS SHOULD ALSO PROVIDE PRETECHNICAL POST HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAMS TO HELP UNDERPREPARED STUDENTS MEET ENTRY REQUIREMENTS OF TECHNICAL PROGRAMS. IN ADDITION TO HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS, SUCH STUDENTS INCLUDE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES (1) WHO HAVE NOT STUDIED THE NECESSARY COURSES, (2) WHO HAVE MOTIVATION TOWARD MECHANICAL OR…

Project ENRICH was conceived in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to: (1) identify preschool children with learning disabilities, and (2) to develop a program geared to the remediation of the learning disabilities within a school year, while allowing the child to be enrolled in a regular class situation for the following school year. Through…

Recent studies have demonstrated that computer based training programs which incorporate adaptive branching are superior to fixed sequence programs that require each student to see and respond to every training frame. A study was therefore devised to investigate two different ways to control such branching (student controlled or program…

The Bryant Youth Educational Support Center (YES) was established to meet the needs of Bryant Junior High students who were socially maladjusted and/or academically underachieving. The primary objectives of the center are to provide basic-skills remedial instruction and to modify inappropriate behavior. During the 1971-1972 school year, 50…

This textbook is intended to provide the requisite mathematical background for an introductory college course in general physics. The topics covered are: Numbers and Units; Experimental Error; Basic Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry; Functions and Graphs; Vectors; The Slide Rule; and Physical Units and Conversions. Where possible, mathematical…

The author presents a detailed outline of a Modified Association Method (MAM), a language remediation program using a structured multisensory approach for use with school aged, learning disabled children. (SBH)

Participation in English and speech remediation courses resulted in significant differences in grades, grade point average, and retention rates, as well as in trends over four semesters of college work, of treatment group students in relation to two control groups. (MJB)

While all schools require specially qualified remedial teachers, the provision of remedial help for individual children is a responsibility of all teachers, whether they are class teachers in a primary school or subject specialists in a secondary school. Remedial teachers have a new and important role in advising and cooperating with their…