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Griffin, Thomas E. – 1974
If a community college is truly committed to the ideal of individualized learning, it must make a concerted effort to discern the learning style preferences of each student. This document demonstrates that the conceptual framework for such discernment exists in the theory of Educational Sciences, created by Dr. Joseph E. Hill of Oakland Community…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Communication Problems, Developmental Programs
Council for Exceptional Children, Arlington, VA. – 1970
The report includes papers presented on early childhood at the 1970 convention of the Council for Exceptional Children. Discussions are concerned with the effectiveness of teaching selected reading skills to children 2 to 4 years by television by Barbara J. Dunn, educational materials as an aid in evaluation of preschool multihandicapped children…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Indiana State Univ., Terre Haute. School of Education. – 1969
"Contemporary Education" is a magazine, published six times a year, which seeks to present competent discussions of contemporary trends and problems in education. This issue concentrates on the computer's role in education, with the conviction that the computer will transform education and eventually inform and pervade all areas of human activity,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Automation, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs
Center for Policy Research, New York, NY. – 1969
This report, based on theoretical considerations as well as knowledge from cumulated sociological research in the field of compensatory education, is in three parts. Section I is a policy memorandum on Black studies focusing on: bridging education, undergraduate Black studies, and social centers, besides graduate programs and research…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Black Education, Compensatory Education, Cultural Pluralism
Bush, Wilma Jo; Giles, Marian Taylor – 1969
Designed for the teacher in training as well as the classroom teacher, the text presents step-by-step remedial techniques for developmental training of the slow learner or the child with learning disabilities. Presented are activities, instructional materials, and teaching techniques for grades 1 through 8. Developmental areas included are…
Descriptors: Aural Learning, Developmental Tasks, Exceptional Child Education, Expressive Language
Loadman, William E.; Parks, A. Lee – 1974
The general purposes of the present project were: (1) to develop a multifaceted special education system for providing maximum educational support to children regardless of their classification, (2) to demonstrate this alternative through a noncategorical educational model involving regular and special education in management plans for children…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Curriculum, Disadvantaged
Branch, Helen M.; Evans, Dale – 1974
The community served by Towns Elementary School has changed from a black neighborhood of upper middle class homeowners to a neighborhood where the majority of the houses are now rented to lower socioeconomic status residents. Pupils now, possibly because of their environmental circumstances, exhibit behaviors which indicate needs for remediation…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Black Education, Cost Effectiveness, Counseling Services
Hartford Public Schools, CT. – 1974
The Alternate Secondary Center (ASC) Program, is the latest step in a series of activities which have been taken to individualize prescriptive learning programs to meet the identified needs of alienated secondary school youngsters. As the external component to the chain of alternate secondary programs, Hartford's two ASC's focused on two…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Behavior Problems, Career Guidance, Individualized Instruction
Rankin, Lila T. – 1974
The guide is one of a series of 10 units composing an orientation to the world of work course designed especially for disadvantaged and handicapped students in the 9th and 10th grades. It is designed to provide basic and remedial instruction in personal development, math, and language skills while providing information and skills basic or common…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance
Sheldon, M. Stephen; Miller, E. D. – 1973
Mastery learning is an approach to learning whereby students are expected to demonstrate competence of one level, or unit, of learning objectives before advancing to the next level. Most junior college instruction is group-paced, with the instructor determining the rate with which units are presented. One compromise between existing instruction…
Descriptors: Algebra, Behavioral Objectives, College Students, Control Groups
Roberts, S. O.; Oppenheim, Don B. – 1966
This study was undertaken to determine whether students who had received less adequate instruction and were less able in scholastic aptitude test performance than the subjects in previous studies might benefit more from special instruction. Specially prepared linear programed materials were developed in the verbal and the mathematical areas.…
Descriptors: Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth, Grade 11, Instructional Materials
SHIELDS, VIRGINIA
THIS DOCUMENT ANALYZES A PROGRAM OF ORAL EXPRESSION, PROVIDED IN COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO ASSIST MIGRANT CHILDREN IN (1) SPEAKING ENGLISH FLUENTLY, (2) USING WORDS CORRECTLY, (3) DEVELOPING CORRECT SPEECH HABITS, AND (4) ENCOURAGING SPEECH AND LANGUAGE INTEREST ALONG WITH SELF-EVALUATION AND IMPROVEMENT. DISCUSSED ARE THE PROGRAM'S GOALS AND…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, English, English (Second Language)
Shreve, Barbara; And Others – 1976
A mathematics and science tutorial program at the University of California, San Diego is described to provide a model for other university tutorial programs. Descriptions of the format of various components of the program are provided. Detailed information is also provided on the required tutor training class, tutor and tutee recruitment,…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Programs, Coordination, Evaluation Methods
Newport-Mesa Unified School District, Newport Beach, CA.
Project Catch-Up is an ESEA Title I reading and math laboratory project for kindergarten through sixth-grade students, operating in Southern California's Newport-Mesa Unified School District. Its philosophy is that students having difficulty in reading and math can catch up with other students. Teachers take responsibility for the achievement…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Criteria, Demonstration Programs, Educational Philosophy
Sparks, June R.; Davis, Cynthia L. – 1977
This paper describes the structure and operation of an evaluation system for the developmental education program at Dalton Junior College (Georgia). All applicants for admission to the college who score below 330 on either section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test are required to take the Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) test to determine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Developmental Programs
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