Discusses discoveries about the ways writing is being taught in one university, based on student attitudes toward writing as they were revealed in a tutorial writing program. (DD)

The solution to the problem of helping minority students rests with improving the staff of tutoring programs. Administrators of programs need to pay tutors, recruit minority tutors, provide a variety of services, and encourage dialog among those involved. The new direction'' minority tutoring must go is towards making the desire to help minority…

Proposes self-directed study and an evaluation and grading system to replace traditional method of grading on the curve. (DS)

Reports on a study of teacher expectancy showing that teachers give "talented students more opportunity to participate in class, thus increasing their skills, while low achievers are relatively ignored. (MH)

Operating a rented storefront with an open door, architects establish community action as an integral part of the design process for an innovative and sympathetic middle school. (Author)

Agreements are reached between individual students and teachers about what needs to be learned, the best ways to learn it, and when. (EJS)

A controversy has arisen about the implications of the phrase "least restrictive environment" for the physically handicapped. School decision makers must consider carefully whether or not less physically restrictive settings may be more psychologically restrictive. (SK)

Eight severely mentally handicapped adults were taught two adjective concepts--one adjective using group training and one adjective using individual instruction. Although group and individual training were equally effective in terms of rates of acquisition, generalization was 45 percent greater when exemplars of each adjective concept were taught…

Offers suggestions for systematizing over-the-shoulder reading conferences during class time. (MKM)

Describes the Writing Place at the State University of New York, Buffalo, a center to which students from all disciplines can go to receive individual help with specific writing problems. (FL)

Computer-managed instruction can be used to evaluate the cognitive progress of individual students without negatively influencing their achievement. (JD)

Background: Adults with a mild intellectual disability (ID) often show poor decoding and reading comprehension skills. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of teaching text comprehension strategies to these adults. Specific research goals were to determine (1) the effects of two instruction conditions, i.e. strategy instruction to…

The relationship between assessment and instruction preferences of undergraduate students was examined as well as the extent to which the combined set of preferences differentiates among four groups of students defined by their levels of test anxiety and learning strategies (high in both, low in both or high in one and low in the other). The…

A total of 46 children in Grades 2 and 3 with low word-level skills were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 groups that received supplemental phonics-based reading instruction. One group received intervention October through March (21.5 hours), and one group served as a control from October through March and later received intervention March through May…