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…

Describes adaptation of the Retake System to larger lecture classes and tests the importance of remedial study in improving exam performance for 410 students enrolled in an interdisciplinary (chemistry, physics, and biology) science course for nonscience majors. (HM)

The school psychologist often is viewed as a diagnostician instead of a remediator. The purpose of this paper is to stress the remedial role that school psychologists can assume without detracting from the importance of diagnosis. (Author)

After learners of varying ability levels were provided with different types of remedial assistance, the effects on short-term cognitive achievement, retention, and attitudes toward instruction and subject matter were investigated. (Author/GA)

Investigated with 92 learning disabled elementary grade students were disorders of the vestibular system (response to gravity and changes in rate of movement). (Author/DB)

Expresses position that the development of academic and interpersonal skills through developmental programs is a legitimate function of any comprehensive community/junior college and that the granting of college credit for time spent acquiring skills legitimizes learning. Also deals with objections to granting college credit for remedial courses.…

Includes abstracts of documents in the ERIC junior-college collection that deal with the special programs or techniques used by two-year colleges to help students needing remedial or developmental work. (TP)

Describes four stages the traditionally prepared teacher goes through in learning to teach in the open-admissions classroom. (DD)

Associating a clear function with verb forms will minimize difficulties for ESL learners. One important function in most learning situations is description. An area of "core description" pivoting on the stem and stem plus "s" verb forms can be established and learners can express most concepts in core terms. (CHK)

Described is Project DECIDE (Darmstadt Enterprises for Career and Individual Development), a half day program which provides career education within a business enterprise cooperative setting for 70 to 80 educable mentally handicapped and equal numbers of nonhandicapped students in grades 7, 8, or 9 who are dependents of American military personnel…

Suggestions are given for effective classroom diagnosis and remedial instruction techniques that may provide some mathematical therapy. (JT)

Twenty remedial reading students at Huntley Elementary School (DeKalb County School District, Georgia) were instructed through a teaching methodology employing the basics of the Lozanov system. Available from: Society for Suggestive-Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 2740 Richmond Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50319. (Author/CFM)

The granting of credit for remedial courses does not represent a lessening of the value of a degree. Rather, it is a manifestation of social and educational progress. (Author/DC)

Discusses how to ensure that children who need special help are identified through a series of "safety nets" and given whatever support is individually required. (Editor/RK)

Surveys the most common strategies adopted by secondary schools, stressing the importance of instructional flexibility whatever the organizational framework. Three case studies explain how three different comprehensive secondary schools arrange for remedial provision, and there is an extended review of two recently published books on provision for…