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Download full textLOMBARD, AVIMA; STERN, CAROLYN – 1967
AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING VISUAL DISCRIMINATION ABILITY WITHOUT CONFOUNDING VARIABLES OF MOTOR SKILLS HAS BEEN CONSTRUCTED. TO AVOID THE EYE-HAND COORDINATION USUALLY REQUIRED ON THESE TESTS, A SELECTION, RATHER THAN A DRAWING, RESPONSE WAS DEVELOPED. THIS TEST, THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES DISCRIMINATION INVENTORY (VDI), CONSISTS…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Discrimination Learning, Dyslexia, Eye Hand Coordination
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1980
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 16 titles deal with the following topics: (1) guiding the learner through a textual passage with an associate passage; (2) use of direct-functional study skill technique in seventh grade social studies classes; (3) three types of…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Annotated Bibliographies, Attitudes, Content Area Reading
Bateman, Barbara D. – 1968
The Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA) is treated in terms of the ability measured, hints for administration and scoring, and questions often asked for each of the nine subtests. Typical profiles are described and analyzed for mentally retarded, kindergarteners, slow learners, culturally disadvantaged, Negroes, good and poor…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Exceptional Child Education, Expressive Language, Handicapped Children
Young, Kan-Hua; Jamison, Dean T. – 1975
To calculate the economic benefits of schooling and compensatory education, a statistical model estimated the effects of schooling and literacy on earnings and employment. The literacy measure was obtained for a probable sample of the U.S. population in 1972, from the National Reading Survey. The measure was administered with a background…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Literacy, Adults, Compensatory Education
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1975
Preschool, elementary, and secondary programs are evaluated in this report. Part 1 of the report consists of the following 1975 statistics: operation and services, dissemination, evaluation, a listing of major problem areas, the interrelationship of Title I with other federal programs, nonpublic schools, a general evaluation of the projects,…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Compensatory Education
Johnson, R. K.; And Others – 1973
This is a collection of comments and research on the problems of students studying at the tertiary level through the medium of a second language. It includes sections on vacabulary, reading skills, syntax, and speech. It also contains several studies of actual students and conditions at the University of Papua and New Guinea. (HW)
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, English (Second Language), Higher Education, Instructional Improvement
Brown, Edward K. – 1972
A systematic study of the composition and dispersement of Title I projects assigned to elementary schools in Philadelphia was conducted. Categorical variables were identified from four major derived variables (program density code, school aggregate fund, pupil service component, achievement-growth differential score) and four major demographic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Mothus, Trudy G.; Lapadat, Judith C.; Struthers, Lynda; Fisher, Heather; Paterson, Karin – 2002
This report discusses the effectiveness of strategy-based writing instruction for adolescents with language-based learning disabilities. The instruction is being provided to Canadian students in grade eight who are at least two grade equivalents below their peers in reading and writing ability. The students are taught a paraphrasing strategy that…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Expository Writing, Foreign Countries, Instructional Effectiveness
Wiley, Mary J.; Rios, Hector M. – 1999
This paper illustrates the application of the collaborative problem solving process for academic and behavioral remediation for students experiencing low reading achievement and some behavioral problems. Unlike the traditional psychoeducational process in which the relationship between the school psychologist and the teacher is that of consultant…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Consultation Programs
Murray, Marsha – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1990
Introduces ways to assess students' reading ability and improve reading of social studies textbooks. Combines reading scores from Iowa Tests of Basic Skills and individual sessions to understand students' reading ability levels. Uses cooperative reading groups, reading labs, and whole-class oral reading to improve skills. Suggests pre- and…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Peer reviewedBates, Eric T.; Wiest, Lynda R. – Mathematics Educator, 2004
This research investigated the impact of personalizing mathematical word problems using individual student interests on student problem-solving performance. Ten word problems were selected randomly from a mathematics textbook to create a series of two assessments. Both assessments contained problems exactly as they appeared in the textbook and…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Textbooks, Student Interests, Interest Inventories
Armbruster, Bonnie B.; And Others – 1986
A study investigated the effect of instruction about conventional expository text structure on fifth-graders' ability to learn from similarly structured social studies material. Subjects, 82 fifth graders from four heterogeneous classrooms in two schools in a small midwestern city, were assigned to either a structure training group which received…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Content Area Reading, Directed Reading Activity, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1983
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 17 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the effects of metacognitive comprehension monitoring strategies on fourth grade students' reading comprehension and recall performance; (2) elementary school…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Doctoral Dissertations
Meyer, Linda A.; And Others – 1983
To evaluate the relative effectiveness of traditional versus computer managed instruction (CMI) basic skills programs for incarcerated adults, 359 male inmates from three traditional self-paced and three PLATO/CMI programs were given pretests in the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS). Following three…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1985
Intended to provide an outlet for systematic and substantive reviews, both empirical and theoretical, and for extended integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on the nature of reading and reading disabilities, with implications for both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reports on a long-term study of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
