The minimum competency goal that now dominates college basic skills instruction is not adequate to prepare the student for success in and beyond college. More can be accomplished within basic skills courses than the mere acquisition of literal information from a reading selection. The use of thematic unity can impose meaningful organization on the…

Some of the attitudes, expectations, and techniques of the English as a second language (ESL) teacher and the ESL student may be profitably applied in the developmental composition classroom. Although developmental students are native English speakers, many of them react to formal, written English as if it were a foreign language. Fostering ESL…

TO STUDY THE ENGLISH PROGRAMS AT FIVE MICHIGAN JUNIOR COLLEGES, THE RESEARCHER SPENT A WEEK AT EACH COLLEGE, INTERVIEWING, VISITING CLASSES, AND STUDYING WRITTEN MATERIALS. FIVE CONCLUSIONS RESULTED--(1) REMEDIAL COURSES ARE OF DOUBTFUL SUCCESS. THERE IS WIDESPREAD DISSATISFACTION WITH PLACEMENT TESTS, TEACHING METHODS, AND THE COURSE SEQUENCE.…

This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of an additional basic language-development program on the science academic achievement of low-achieving kindergarten pupils. From responses on a performance test, an experimental and a control group were formed. Both groups received instruction in science. The experimental group also received…

Presented is the second year (1972-73) report of the Affton School District's (Saint Louis, Missouri) program (funded under Title III) to provide diagnostic studies of elementary grade learning disabled (LD) children, learning centers in four elementary schools for LD children, and adequate programing to allow LD children to be returned to the…

Emotional problems may be the motivation for many students to seek help at a college reading and study skills center. Many students appear to show actual physical and psychological discomfort when involved in the act of reading and studying. If tension creates a problem, then one would like to determine (1) how the student learned to be tense when…

"An English Pronunciation Course for Puerto Rican Seventh-Graders" grew out of a similar remedial pronunciation course for freshmen at the University of Puerto Rico. One of the linguistic principles involved in teaching young adults a foreign language concerns the fact that "linguistic acquisition is stabilized by puberty," and language learning…

Evaluated was the self-concept of 65 learning disabled emotionally disturbed, remedial, and average high school students. Testing with William C. Schutz's scale of Fundamental Interpersonal Relations Orientation-Behavior indicated that the remedial group scored significantly lower than the other groups in areas such as expressed control. The…

These two reports discuss remedial classes at the community college level. The first describes a series of tests that had been administered indicating the students had both perceptual and visual problems which interfered with their learning: the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, the Purdue Perceptual Motor Survey, and the Frostig Visual Perception…

This paper is an impressionistic appraisal of group counseling as a component of a coordinated approach to college level remediation. Counselors were assigned a group of students who were enrolled in Communication Skills, a course co-sponsored and team taught by the Departments of Compensatory Programs (Reading), English (Writing), and Speech…

Students in three types of high school English course organizations (traditional, an all-electives program, and an elective program requiring linguistic diagnosis and remediation prior to entrance into electives) were studied to determine student attitudes toward the study of English, student achievement in English usage, and student achievement…

An individualized, computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program of courses in Algebra and General Mathematics was developed for ninth graders. The courses are "on-line", with students receiving instruction and their performances being recorded to direct the flow of instruction and to assign appropriate off-line instructional materials.…

This manual for administrators and instructors accompanies the Learning Individualized for Canadians (LINC) courses of individually prescribed instruction in communications and in mathematics for adult learners. Information is given on the background of the LINC program, objectives, components, the individualized process, procedures for curriculum…

The first part of the Self-Paced Physics Course remediation materials is presented for U. S. Naval Academy students who miss core problems on the progress check. The total of 78 problems is incorporated in this volume to match study segments 1 through 14. Each remedial sheet is composed of a statement of the missed problem and references to…

This follow-up study assessed the effects of two different intervention strategies on the reading, language, and intellectual development of preschool children who participated in a North Carolina Head Start program during the period from 1968 to 1969. Children in the experimental group received structured language arts instruction in the first…