This study was designed to compare the main effects of two methods of teaching remedial English--programed and traditional live-instruction methods--and also to determine whether these instructional methods had the same effects at all levels. Four instructors each taught one control and one experimental class for a semester. The experimental group…

Two studies by ESB staff are used to compare actual and potential dropouts; data from these studies are reflected in 43 tables. Some school program recommendations are made as a result of the studies: (1) research for identifying actual and potential dropouts and for developing a dropout profile, (2) pupil remedial education programs, (3) remedial…

The report reviews the third year of a 4-year demonstration and research project, Programing Interpersonal Curricula for Adolescents (PICA). General purpose is to develop remedial procedures for adolescents with both scholastic and social or behavioral problems. In a half day educational program 12 such students study academic and interpersonal…

The Street Academy is a program designed to meet the dropout as an individual--to assist, help and support him continually in his daily life. The academies operate from store-fronts located in neighborhoods where there are large concentrations of school dropouts. They are staffed, at the minimum, by a project director, a street worker, and a…

This handbook, intended to accompany the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, describes numerous remedial and developmental activities for perceptual motor and psychomotor skills. Observable classroom behaviors associated with various perceptual motor and psychomotor disabilities (visual-motor channel disability, auditory-vocal channel…

DISTAR programs were used in learning assistance classes at five Vancouver schools during 1971-72. Those pupils who were taught with the DISTAR Arithmetic program made sizable gains in scores on the Arithmetic subtest of the Metropolitan Achievement Test, but the difference between the gains made by experimental and control groups in arithmetic…

Nine of the 11 elementary schools had supportive programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education. Title I programs typically entailed the employment of additional teachers and paraprofessional school personnel. One school participated in the Education Professions Development Act project, a cooperative effort between the…

The major purpose of this study was to ascertain the growth in reading skills, self-concepts, attitudes toward school, and social relationships of a selected group of senior high school remedial readers who had served as tutors in reading for junior high school remedial readers. The study lasted almost one school year. The tutors were volunteers…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS UNDERTAKEN TO EXPLORE THE INSTRUCTIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF JEAN PIAGET'S POSITION ON EQUILIBRATION. ONE PURPOSE WAS TO TEST THE GENERAL HYPOTHESIS THAT THE MISCONCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN, WHEN DISPLACED BY EVIDENCE CONTRARY TO THE MISCONCEPTIONS, GIVE RISE TO COGNITIVE CONFLICTS. THE RESULTS, IN GENERAL, CONFIRM THIS HYPOTHESIS. A…

Beginning with the spring 1974 semester, all incoming students at Borough of Manhattan Community College (New York) were tested using the Reading subtest of the Stanford Test of Academic Skills, Level II. Students achieving scores lower than the fifth stanine on beginning grade 12 norms were required to take a remedial reading course. The…

Several methods of qualifying for enrollment in English 1A (Freshman English and Composition) at Reedley College exist: among them, a grade of C or better in English A (Remedial English), teacher recommendation in English 50 (a course for students not intending to transfer), SAT Verbal score of 466 or higher, ACT score of 20 or higher on the…

Presented is the final report of a 4-year project to develop and evaluate a prototype program for training special education consultants who are qualified to assist school personnel and parents in remediating academic and social behaviors of handicapped children in the Kansas City (Missouri) area. An overview and introduction are provided in the…

A modification of the sensorimotor patterning treatment developed at the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential by G. Doman and C. Delacato was evaluated with 45 seriously retarded institutionalized children (mean age 12 years). Journal availability: see EC 111 045. (Author/DLS)

State standards for minimum competencies deal mainly with reading, writing, and mathematics. Testing is primarily a state function. Many programs include identification of students who need remedial assistance. (Author/AV)

Outlines the "sandwich approach" to teaching remedial writing--a technique for teaching students the structure of a paragraph that removes the barriers of unfamiliar vocabulary (e.g. topic sentence, unity) and that appeals to the student's sense of sight and taste. Includes sample exercises for practical application. (NKA)