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Pack, Alice C., Ed. – 1978
This issue contains five articles on teaching English as a second language. "Predictive Validity of the CELT" by R. T. Moran and J. G. Erion discusses use of the Comprehensive English Language Test for Speakers of English as a Second Language to predict later success in a setting where nearly all students speak English as their second…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Educational Games, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Opportunities
Download full textERIC 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 20 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: predictors of primary grade reading achievement; factor analysis of the WISC-R to distinguish disabled readers at three grade levels; a process model for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Basic Education, Adults, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Law, Alexander I.
During the 1975-76 school year, all second and third grade pupils in California were tested in reading achievement and all students in grades six and twelve were tested in reading, written expression, spelling, and mathematics. Reading scores for second and third graders have been improving since 1966, but the 1975-76 scores show little…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Annual Reports
Ramsden, Patricia; Watkins, Clyde
A competency-based, individualized, English course was designed so that, at any one time, students would be working toward a grade of C, B, or A. While some students, based on a pre-course writing evaluation, might begin work at an advanced level, other students might spend the whole semester attempting to achieve the skills required for a C.…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Behavioral Objectives, Community Colleges, Competence
Faddis, Bonnie J.; And Others – 1979
Ninth grade Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Title I evaluation results in reading and English-writing projects were compared, using the RMC Model A with local empirical norms, Model A with national interpolated norms, and Model B. The Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS)--Total Reading and Total Language subtests--were administered…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education, Control Groups
Children's Television Workshop, New York, NY. – 1971
This handbook outlines the curriculum objectives for the children's television program, "The Electric Company." The first portion of the text delineates strategies for teaching symbol/sound analysis, including units on blends, letter groups, and word structure. A second section addresses strategies for reading for meaning, including…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Context Clues, Curriculum Guides, Developmental Reading
Sealey, L. G. W.; Gibbon, Vivian – 1972
The thesis presented is that "learning arises from experience which is absolutely bound up with communication of all kinds." The book deals with ways to translate this view into classroom practice. The chapters, which are subdivided for the British infant and junior schools, cover: (1) Thinking and Learning; (2) Telling by Moving--drama, dance,…
Descriptors: Books, Communication Skills, Curriculum Guides, Dance
Bloom, Benjamin S.; And Others – 1969
This fifth booklet included in the second of a two-volume cross-national study of educational attainment is a compilation of cognitive tests prepared for four fundamental student groupings in the areas of French as a foreign language, English as a foreign language, and civic education. Test booklets, pertinent scripts of taped material, test…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Answer Keys, Attitudes, Bilingualism
Bloom, Benjamin S.; And Others – 1971
The art and science of evaluating student learning is presented in detail to assist the classroom teacher in its application and the consequent improvement of both the teaching and learning processes. Part 1, in four sections (Education and Evaluation, Using Evaluation for Instructional Decisions, Evaluation Techniques for Cognitive and Affective…
Descriptors: Affective Objectives, Art Education, Cognitive Objectives, Curriculum Development
Steinberg, Charles S. – 1970
All areas of mass communication are surveyed. Man's earliest efforts as a communicator are considered, and what is known about the development of speech and writing is explored. Various theories (including mathematical ones) are reviewed which attempt to explain the processes of both personal and mass communication. Separate chapters focus on the…
Descriptors: Books, Broadcast Industry, Cable Television, Cartoons
Ohio Literacy Network, Columbus. – 2002
This document presents tips to help Ohio's adult basic education (ABE) and literacy education professionals publicize new and existing ABE and literacy education programs. Chapter 1 discusses the following topics related to using newspapers to publicize ABE and literacy programs: publication policies of daily and weekly newspapers; news releases,…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Adult Basic Education, Adult Educators, Adult Literacy
Jones, Nathan B. – 1998
This paper offers an example of how to apply action research to improve English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL)/English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) writing instruction. This research was conducted over a 5-year period while the researcher taught 9 semester-long sections of advanced EFL writing to Taiwanese undergraduates. Using Reid's (1987) Perceptual…
Descriptors: Action Research, Chinese, Cognitive Style, College Students
Faraday, Sally; Maudslay, Liz – 2000
This document, which is intended for individuals involved in writing and reviewing college disability statements, summarizes the results of a Further Education Development Agency evaluation of the disability statements of 432 further education (FE) colleges throughout England. Chapter 1 examines the extent to which the individual FE colleges'…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Admission Criteria, Adult Students, College Programs
Blackburn, Mollie; Stern, Deborah – Working Papers in Educational Linguistics, 2000
A social literacies perspective is used to analyze a rap written by a high school student. The article begins with an examination of the student's uses of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) and standard English. The student writing sample and the researcher's analysis are subjected to review by two other African American teenagers, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Direct linkBenjamin, Amy – Eye on Education, 2005
Do you spend entirely too much time correcting your students' papers? Do your students' essays and term papers take side trips to nowhere? Is their writing riddled with mechanical errors? Do their lab reports and essays lack specificity and clarity? Writing in the Content Areas, Second Edition is for middle and high school content area teachers…
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Essays, Teachers, Word Processing
