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Nichols, Roy D., Jr. – 1980
A reading program implemented in the Birmingham, Alabama, public schools in 1974 has produced increases in reading achievement in each of the years it has been used. Prior to 1974, the average Birmingham student's standardized reading test scores ranged from two months below the national average at the end of first grade to one year and nine…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction, Inservice Teacher Education, Low Achievement
Zook, Doris; And Others – 1979
This Project Drive booklet titled Finding Your Way is one of eight booklets designed for intermediate-level English-as-a-second-language students and low-level adult basic education/basic reading students. The goal of the booklet is to aid the student in developing the oral and sight vocabulary necessary for a basic driver training program. The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Certification, Driver Education
Download full textMCKEE, JOHN M.; AND OTHERS – 1966
INDIVIDUALLY DESIGNED BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS EMPHASIZING PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION TO PROVIDE MOTIVATION THROUGH CONTINUOUS FEEDBACK COMPLEMENT THE VOCATIONAL TRAINING GIVEN EACH INMATE PARTICIPATING IN THE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT AT THE DRAPER CORRECTIONAL CENTER. A REMEDIAL READING PROGRAM FOR ALL TRAINEES SCORING BELOW 7TH GRADE INCLUDES PHONICS…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Conferences, Correctional Institutions, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Mobilization for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1964
IN A REPORT ON THE CURRENT STATUS OF PROGRAMS BEING COOPERATIVELY DEVELOPED BY MOBILIZATION FOR YOUTH AND THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION, THE FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE DESCRIBED--(1) INSERVICE EDUCATION COURSES FOR TEACHERS, (2) DEVELOPMENTS IN TEACHER TRAINING, (3) CURRICULUM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, (4) CORRECTIVE READING PROGRAMS, (5) THE…
Descriptors: Attendance, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Counseling
HELLER, BARBARA – 1966
A PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDED SUPERIOR EDUCATIONAL SERVICES TO ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS WAS EVALUATED. THE SPECIAL SERVICES WERE PROVIDED SO THAT THE WHITE MIDDLE CLASS EXODUS FROM THESE SCHOOLS, IN WHICH EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT STANDARDS MAY HAVE FALLEN, WOULD BE CURTAILED. AS PART OF THE PROGRAM, ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL PERSONNEL WERE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Attendance, Class Size, Counseling Services
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1978
This document contains testimony, prepared statements, letters, and supplemental materials submitted during field hearings held one day in Lexington, Kentucky, and another day in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in February, 1978. Under consideration was a bill to extend for five years a number of programs authorized in the Education Amendments of 1974.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Martin, Peter B. – 1967
Results of the Nelson-Denny Reading Test are used as a screening device for selecting students for remedial work in the Reading and Study Skills Center (R-S) at New York Community College (NYCC). A descriptive analysis of the fall 1967 day session freshmen showed that the average freshman at NYCC was reading at the 12.6 grade level, or .4 grade…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Evaluation Methods, Local Norms
Kahn, Gloria Batkin – 1975
This study attempted to assess the effect of behavior modification techniques on community college open enrollment students with severe educational deficits. Of 30 suburban New York members of a reading class, half were exposed to direct teaching, instructor praise, peer partners, self and peer ratings, role playing, Premack contracts,…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavioral Science Research, Community Colleges, Doctoral Dissertations
Maxwell, David K.; And Others – 1973
Developed as part of a project designed to provide a synthesis of literature and practice relating to the career education of disadvantaged students, this paper examines the curricular needs of disadvantaged students, curriculum materials according to different reading and interest levels, and the contribution of curriculum materials toward career…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Career Awareness, Career Choice
Colorado Springs Public Schools, CO. Div. of Special Services. – 1969
This evaluation report carries a description of each project then in operation, an analysis of the evaluative data collected for each, and recommendations for improvement. Objectives of the projects, geared for disadvantaged youth (K-12), were: improvement of performance of capabilities of children with learning disabilities due to psychological,…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Childhood Education, Emotional Disturbances
Lindamood, Patricia C. – 1969
The Auditory Discrimination in Depth (A.D.D.) Program suggests that there is a direct relationship between auditory discrimination or auditory perceptual ability and the development of competency in language and literacy skills. (Auditory perceptual ability is defined as the ability to discriminate individual phonemes and to track their changing…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests
Johnson, Wendell – 1967
A brief statement of the purpose for the interviews of 35 faculty members outside the English department at Diablo Valley College concerning the improvement of student reading and writing skills is followed by a sampling of 10 questions used in conducting the interviews to discover teacher requirements, evaluation criteria, problems, involvement,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Students, Educational Needs, Educational Practices
Peer reviewedBeringause, Arthur F. – The CEA Critic, 1965
Pre-college remedial courses in reading and writing at Bronx Community College are described. Teachers with experience in high school remedial reading and composition and college composition taught a combined remedial reading-composition course and a control remedial composition course, so that reading improvement could be tested for both classes.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Curriculum Design, English Instruction, Reading Achievement
Wark, David M., Ed. – 1965
This single volume constitutes the third and fourth yearbooks of the North Central Reading Association and consists of most of the papers presented at the 1963 and 1964 annual meetings of the NCRA. The papers are grouped into four sections: Discrimination, Information Theory, Skill Therapy and Skill Training, and The Visual Process. Among the…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Cloze Procedure, College Instruction, Conference Reports
Lipa-Wade, Sally – 2003
This teacher's guide is designed to assist in teaching an eight-level supplemental reading series to help students learn and practice a variety of reading comprehension strategies. It explains the format of the eight student books; provides a complete scope and sequence chart for the series; and includes a brief introduction to reading…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Reading Programs, Classroom Techniques, Instructional Materials
