This volume contains the papers which were presented and a summary of the discussions which took place at a conference sponsored by the Study Group on Spelling Disability in Children at the School of Education, University of Birmingham (England). The papers discuss such topics as spelling in context, the nature of the writing system and its…

This document contains part two of a report of projects undertaken through the Hilroy Fellowship Program in Canada in 1970-71. The stated aim of the program is to encourage and reward classroom teachers who are developing new ideas for the improvement of teaching practices. The four projects deal with language arts and literature education. Each…

This paper argues that teachers of remedial students must make their students create their own order and meanings which may be at variance with the established order around them, but are valid nevertheless. Current research stresses the need to develop a positive self-concept, particularly in remedial students and in those whose cultural values…

Eighteen high school students of normal intelligence but with severely deficient language skills were given a special highly structured instructional program. Students progressed in vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and written and oral expression. Although the degree of progress was not sufficient to overcome deficits of two and…

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the role of error analysis in specifying and planning remedial treatment in second language learning. Part 1 discusses situations that demand remedial action. This is a quantitative assessment that requires measurement of the varying degrees of disparity between the learner's knowledge and the demands of the…

Visual perception as a part of the reading problem has been difficult for some classroom teachers to comprehend because of the confusion about meaning. This confusion has been due in part (1) to failure to define the term visual perception before writing about it, (2) to studies which take a narrow view of perception yet make broad conclusions,…

Reported are the results of an inservice diagnostic demonstration center for children with learning problems. Information is provided on testing materials, referral interviews, a survey of reading disabilities, an instructional materials listing, a professional bibliography, descriptions of remediation material, and a parent survey. Also included…

This program was used with more than 8,000 students (grades two through eight in New York City nonpublic schools) who were retarded in mathematics achievement. Seventy-seven special teachers were used, many of whom had never taught before and/or had no contact with disadvantaged children. Administrative procedures are discussed. The goals of the…

Listed alphabetically by title in the annotated bibliography are 378 instructional materials to be used with subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) for education of learning disabled children at all age levels. The current bibliography is said to be a successor to "A Sequentially Compiled List of Instructional…

The articles in this volume address the teaching of composition. Chapters include D. G. Kehl's "A Rhetorical Question--With or Without an Answer," which examines the import of the rhetorical question, "How can I prepare my students for freshman English"; Arthur Donart's "A Behavioristic Approach to Teaching Freshman…

The rationale for the existence of developmental kindergarten classes is based on individual differences, the general importance of early childhood education, and the advantages of early detection of emotional disturbance and learning disabilities. The Waukegan program focuses on early identification and specification of problems, development of…

A list of measurable behavioral objectives (MBO) is presented in this booklet for use throughout the Articulated Multimedia Physics Course. The objectives are divided into terminal and enabling objectives. Computer analyses of student's achievement are given in the form of the MBO number. The objectives are grouped into 14 lessons: measurement and…

Groups of approximately 300 undergraduate educational psychology students participated in an instructional program, involving weekly instructional objectives, weekly exams, remedial exams, and a point system of scoring. It was assumed that the percentage of students not attaining the passing criterion on the initial exam but returning for the…

The instructional needs of culturally disadvantaged students must be differentiated from the needs of slow learners and from the needs of mentally retarded children. The characteristics of a disadvantaged student's family structure, home environment, and neighborhood all affect his learning potential. The special needs of disadvantaged students…

To determine whether the inductive or deductive teaching method is better able to help college freshman remedial English students make progress in formal grammar and mechanics, in vocabulary and reading comprehension, and in composition, two classes of 23 students were formed into a test sample. One class was instructed for a semester by a…