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Kendall, Elizabeth L.; Chenoweth, Roberta – 1980
This activity guide is one of four supplements to be used with "Do You Read Me? Prevocational-Vocational Reading Development Activities" (ED 210 454). Each supplement deals with a different occupational category. Games, puzzles, and other activities are offered to aid in developing the word recognition, vocabulary, and comprehension…
Descriptors: Business Education, Communications, Content Area Reading, Distributive Education
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago, IL. – 1982
Ideas and activities for helping children attain success in school, in friendships and in sports are presented in this handbook for parents. The areas covered are: (1) developing a winning attitude; (2) increasing self-confidence; (3) improving reading skills; (4) gaining good study habits; (5) improving test-taking skills; (6) doing homework; (7)…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Elementary Secondary Education, Homework, Interpersonal Relationship
Youngstrom, Mark, Ed. – 1982
Intended for elementary and secondary school language arts teachers, this guide lists suggested outcomes in the development of successful communicators, based on knowledge of child development. Following an introduction, the guide discusses key considerations and procedural sugestions for developing the communications/language arts curriculum. The…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Curriculum Design, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Fleming, Margaret – 1984
This report evaluates the initial year of a project implemented in 15 elementary and 5 junior high schools in Cleveland in support of the schools' efforts to install effective school procedures designed to upgrade students' basic skills and academic achievement. The report deals with the following areas: (1) district support for the project; (2)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Educational Environment
Download full textHoffman, Lee McGraw – 1984
A case study approach was used to evaluate the statewide reading improvement project in Louisiana called Special Plan Upgrading Reading (SPUR). SPUR emphasized a change agent approach by providing Technical Assistants and small stipends (approximately $5,000) to participating school districts. During the first two years of the evaluation,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Data Collection, Educational Change
Carsrud, Karen; And Others – 1981
The evaluation design for Austin Independent School District's Elementary Secondary Education Act Title I project for 1981-82 is a 1-year plan of evaluation work which provides a brief project and evaluation summary, the major decision and evaluation questions to be addressed, other information needs, dissemination plans, and information sources…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Economically Disadvantaged, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1979
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 47 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: a programed tutoring project in which older students tutored first grade students; oral reading miscues made by children in high, medium, and low reading groups;…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Doctoral Dissertations
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
MCKEE, 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
