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Sharpening Organizational Skills.
Haman, Theresa A.; Isaacson, Douglas K. – Academic Therapy, 1985
A checklist of 26 behaviors is offered to help elementary level teachers determine where students are experiencing organizing or sequencing difficulties. Eight remediation suggestions for promoting organized behavior in learning disabled students are offered. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Check Lists, Elementary Education, Informal Assessment
Assessing Perceptual-Motor Competency
Aliberto, Charles A. – Academic Therapy, 1975
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children, Informal Assessment, Motor Development
Teacher Ability in Recording Oral Reading Performance.
Allington, Richard L. – Academic Therapy, 1978
A study of 57 certified teachers was undertaken in order to determine the individual teacher's ability to correctly judge oral reading performance. (PHR)
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Informal Assessment
Reading Style: Diagnosis, Evaluation, Prescription.
Carbo, Marie L. – Academic Therapy, 1980
Designed for the evaluation of the reading ability of handicapped students, the reading style checklist (RSC) is presented along with lists of abilities a student would need in order to learn to read using different reading methods. (PHR)
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Informal Assessment
Functional Analysis Q-Sheet for LD Children.
Swanson, H. Lee – Academic Therapy, 1978
The article gives a checklist of questions for teachers to ask in the functional assessment of learning disabled children, and gives guides in decisions on instructional prescriptions. (PHR)
Descriptors: Attention Span, Cognitive Development, Individualized Instruction, Informal Assessment
Diagnosing Learning Difficulties Via the IAI
Dunlap, William P.; Brennan, Alison House – Academic Therapy, 1977
The informal arithmetic inventory, an informal diagnostic technique for use with elementary age students, indicates a child's specific weaknesses in arithmetic, such as inadequate concept development, poor computational skills, or inability to apply skills in a practical problem solving situation. (SBH)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Diagnostic Teaching, Diagnostic Tests, Elementary Education
Diagnosis of Reading Disability: Word Prediction Abilities Tests.
Allington, Richard L. – Academic Therapy, 1979
An informal test of word prediction abilities is suggested to aid in diagnostic assessment of reading ability. The test proposed would include evaluation of auditory and visual cloze abilities. The test, given in conjunction with a test stressing abilities to use graphic and phonic cues, should provide improved assessment of a student's abilities.…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Understanding Student Behavior.
Katims, David S.; Zapata, Jesse T. – Academic Therapy, 1988
Expressive activities are suggested to help teachers understand the underlying emotional problems of learning-disabled children. Activities include the teacher-made questionnaire, the sentence completion exercise, the student-made autobiography, and student drawings of self and family. (DB)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Problems, Informal Assessment
Why Students Make Math Errors.
VanDevender, Evelyn M.; Harris, Mary Jo. – Academic Therapy, 1987
Four informal assessment techniques to detect student mistakes in math, increase motivation, and improve achievement include the following: building models and generating word problems, thinking aloud, building mathematical sentences, and making mathematical sentences to answer questions in word problems. (DB)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Informal Assessment
Informal Assessment Techniques with LD Children
Vance, Hubert Booney – Academic Therapy, 1977
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Observation Techniques, Diagnostic Teaching, Evaluation Methods
LD Students' Writing: Analyzing Errors.
Goodman, Libby; And Others – Academic Therapy, 1987
A cost-effective, efficient strategy for informal assessment of learning-disabled students' writing samples utilizes an "Error Analysis Worksheet" which provides a written, documented record of the evaluation which can then be used to plan goals and objectives for writing instruction for the student. (CB)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods