Integration of remedial pupils and staff into the regular school system is discussed. The article is based on a survey of administrators and remedial teachers in comprehensive schools in England. (CD)

Student attendance at help sessions before an examination indicated by attitudinal and behavioral data that those most likely to seek academic help had performed poorly in the past, attributed their performance to remediable factors and received information about session usefulness. Ability, effort and external attribution significance are…

Explores primary steps in finding, selecting, and evaluating software for instructional applications. Cites directories of commercial vendors; periodicals that provide software announcements and reviews; and guides to assist in courseware selection and evaluation. (DMM)

Examines math anxiety programs in Virginia's colleges, reviewing institutional characteristics, student selection and assessment, and program objectives, emphases, and methods. Concludes that math anxiety programs are few in number, rarely used in remediation, inconsistently defined, and share no single concept of the nature of math anxiety or…

Considers problems in using prose models in remedial writing instruction. To demystify the writing process, suggests: "teacher as writer" approaches--teachers demonstrate the problems they encounter in writing; "peer-mediated instruction"--students write for and observe each other; and "writer as model" approaches--professionals show how they…

Documents one child's development in reading and writing in a remedial program and raises questions about the possible advantages of integrating instruction in writing into remedial programs. (HTH)

Recommends an approach to basic skills instruction which takes poetry as its focus to study grammar, style, and ideas. Reports three benefits: poetry gives students something significant to read, utilizes professionals' grammar and usage to teach these areas, and generates readable topics for writing. Provides two typical assignments. (DMM)

The first of a two-part article proposes a five level, hierarchical classification system to outline vocabulary types usually found in social studies materials. Instructional techniques are suggested to enhance student understanding of different vocabulary types. For journal availibility, see SO 509 175. (AM)

Notes how the use of controlled composition techniques in English-as-a-second-language classes can be adapted to help basic writers in remedial writing classes. (RL)

Comparing the effectiveness of different strategies for remediating teacher weaknesses, as measured by the Instrument for Observation of Teaching Activities (IOTA), 99 elementary and junior high school teachers were observed. The study revealed that combining IOTA feedback with structured inservice workshops focusing on narrow specific weaknesses…

An empirical approach to remediating handwriting problems in children is presented. After an observation period, the teacher gathers a number of handwriting samples, and using information from both sources, analyzes the problem. A checklist is used to list aspects of the analysis, such as general handwriting characteristics and degree of proximity…