The issue of the journal of the National Association for Remedial Education in Malaysia contains eight articles (three of which are in English) which discuss the nature of remedial education, causes of learning difficulties, and remedial techniques. Articles in Malay have English synopses. Malay articles are about: a general examination of four…

School district personnel responsible for administering Title I programs recognize that for a student to take advantage of remediation the individual must be present for instruction. Many evaluations of Title I programs have attributed increased achievement to increased attendance, without explicitly investigating this assumed relationship. This…

This study looks at the effect of objective referenced formative diagnostic testing followed with remediation assignments on three cognitive levels of science achievement and the attitudes of university students, and determines if the effects of treatment were consistent across student locus of control levels. The subjects of the study were 60…

At the University of Florida, writing laboratory classes follow a structured, independent curriculum designed to help students write effective paragraphs and edit their own writing. The four periods in the biweekly block of instruction are devoted to instruction in writing techniques and sentence skills, revision, mastery tests, and individual…

Based on the assumption that major sentence errors are caused by a deficit in syntactic fluency that can be aided by sentence combining instruction, student writing errors are analyzed in this paper and explanations are provided showing how these errors could have been prevented or reduced through instruction in sentence combining. Some types of…

The effectiveness of directionality training in alleviating a tendency to reverse letters and/or words was tested with 24 children (ages 8-9 years) with reading and math problems, who had such tendencies. The strategies used to teach directionality were based upon strategies used in previous studies with younger children that resulted in a…

THE EDUCATIONAL NEEDS OF DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN ARE DEFINED IN ORDER TO PLAN FOR THEIR REMEDIATION. THIS SYLLABUS IS DESIGNED TO MAKE TEACHERS AWARE OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL SEQUENCE OF LANGUAGE ARTS SKILLS AND TO PRESENT WAYS AND MEANS TO REMEDY SPECIFIC DISABILITIES. A FEW GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR REVAMPING EDUCATIONAL PLANNING FOR DISADVANTAGED…

This paper describes the operation and results of an individualized center funded under an Office of Education grant for the provision of special services to disadvantaged students. This center is designed to apply individualized instructional techniques to remedial, developmental, and general education courses for disadvantaged students enrolled…

Presented is a theory of learning handicaps based on psychoeducational and developmental considerations. Identified are five of the author's biases about remediation such as the tendency for teachers to continue remediation beyond the point of usefulness. Proposed is the existence of five task requirements such as attending to the task, attaching…

This paper describes the Child Study Center (CSC) of the Pinellas County, Florida, Pupil Services Demonstration Project, an Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III project. The purpose of the CSC is to provide the diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention necessary to assist referred students with serious learning problems in…

Skills that are currently referred to as study skills can be separated into two broad categories: techniques for study and applied study skills. Techniques for study could be acquired given sufficient information, but applied study skills require sequential skill development and practice on the part of students, using material near their…

In planning a program of remedial English, college English faculties should ask several questions about the necessity of such a program, the needs of the students, the interests and capabilities of the teachers, the content of the courses, and the methods which can be applied in the remedial classroom. In addition, an effective remedial program…

Implemented on the PLATO IV computer-assisted instruction facility located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Language Arts Routing System (LARS) is a package of lessons and tests designed to provide remedial training in certain basic language arts skills. LARS is a system which may be used by itself or as an adjunct to regular…

Compared are the application of direct (criterion referenced) and inferential (norm referenced) measurement to the educational diagnosis and remediation of children with learning disabilities. The task analysis approach is seen to require direct measurements for which standard reliability, validity, and item analysis evaluation procedures are…

This paper discusses the placement, remediation, and management of the learning disabled child. The procedure for a professional assessment of the learning disabled child includes: (1) noting potentially dangerous signs such as poor visual and/or auditory memory for words, consistent letter or number reversals beyond the primary grades, short…