The Child Study Center (CSC) program provides diagnostic, prescriptive, and consultative intervention services to elementary and junior high school students with serious learning problems. Because of the multi-causation factor present in children with severe learning problems, the CSC concept involves an interdisciplinary team approach which…

The significance of study method inventories in higher education is explored. A brief history of study skills inventories is presented along with justifications for using a study method approach. Research indicates the student most likely to be more successful than others may exhibit better study habits and adapt more easily to academic norms and…

Three treatment groups were used to examine the effects on general reading comprehension of teaching and testing four subskills related to the identification of the main idea in prose materials. Subjects were 157 tenth-grade students. Besides a control group, two experimental approaches were used, consisting of subjects who were both taught four…

Describes the activities of the International Center of Pedagogical Studies at Sevres. Principal activities include the methodological perfection of French and foreign teachers of languages and other disciplines, and the dissemination of information on educational developments to international organizations. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Licensing authorities in Sweden have approached the problem of unequal or inadequate education of immigrating foreign medical graduates by establishing a program which includes language and law courses and a clinical apprenticeship or a 3- to 5-month course preparatory to the standard graduate training of Swedish medical school graduates. (JT)

A survey of California community colleges was conducted in 1980-81 to determine the extent to which compensatory and developmental courses currently fulfill requirements for the associate degree (AA) and to determine how many of the compensatory courses were actually used by students to satisfy AA requirements. Responses to the survey were…

Teaching composition in a prison is different from teaching composition in a traditional freshman composition classroom. Since most prison inmates have a high school equivalency degree earned while in prison, a developmental writing course offered prior to the standard freshman composition sequence is probably necessary. Such a class may include a…

Before an effective program can be developed to help the remedial writing student, instructors must dispel the myth that college students can read college level materials. Related to this assumption is the belief that those who cannot read in college cannot do so because of a lack of intelligence. Clearly what is important in understanding the…

The need to develop students' critical thinking skills is examined in this paper, along with existing academic support services, federal regulations and requirements, data on minority group students, and measures of program effectiveness. Many programs provide tutorial services to help the student meet the demands of coursework and to increase…

The Summer Umbrella Program was designed to provide remedial instruction to children with demonstrable needs in reading, mathematics, and English as a second language. Instruction functioned on an individual or small group basis, employing a flexible, eclectic, multi-modality methodology. The instructional design was diagnostic/prescriptive. Pre…

IT WAS STATED IN THE INTRODUCTION THAT 7.5 MILLION MIGRANTS AND OTHER SEASONAL FARM LABORERS COMPRISE ONE QUARTER OF THE NATION'S POOR. LITTLE ACTION HAS BEEN TAKEN TO MELIORATE THE POOR CONDITIONS OF THESE WORKERS UNTIL PASSAGE OF THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964. OEO HAS APPROVED GRANTS FOR FARM WORKER ANTIPOVERTY PROGRAMS IN 35 STATES. THE…

THE STANFORD PROJECT ON COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION IN INITIAL READING, INCLUDING THE COMPUTER CONTROLLING SYSTEM AS WELL AS CURRICULUM MATERIALS, IS DESCRIBED. THE THEORETICAL RATIONALE FOR THE READING CURRICULUM, FOR WORD LIST LEARNING, FOR REMEDIAL MATERIALS, AND FOR INSERVICE TRAINING IS DISCUSSED. APPENDIXES AND REFERENCES ARE INCLUDED. (BK)

This paper surveys research in the field in an attempt to determine what level of mastery of basic skills is required to do a particular job, what level vocational education students generally attain, and which instructional techniques are effective in improving vocational education students' basic skills. In the first of three sections, claims…

The experience of two teachers of English as a second language (ESL) in using simulation is described. Their success in developing communicative competence in young adult remedial ESL students is attributed to the fostering of realistic (i.e., lowered) self-expectations of achievable communicative ability. In developing specific language skills to…

In a study of reading clinicians' collection and diagnosis procedures, three types of clinical agreement were examined: group agreement, intraclinician agreement, and interclinician agreement. Eight senior and respected practicing clinicians were involved in the study, which used simulated cases of reading problems based upon real cases. The…