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Evans, Susan S.; Evans, William H. – Pointer, 1986
The rationale for assessment in special education is examined, and the importance of measuring student performance until mastery or proficiency of the skill/behavior has occurred is stressed. Guidelines are offered for determining proficiency. (CL)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
Hays, Jean – Pointer, 1974
Children 5- to 8-years-old with educational, emotional and neurological problems received individualized instruction in a behavior modification oriented diagnostic class with emphasis on reentering the regular classroom. (CL)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Diagnostic Teaching, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Bryson, Mary Kathleen – Pointer, 1987
The article suggests ways to look at writing samples of reading disabled students to identify problem types, outlines cognitive processes needed in written language production, and gives an example of instructional intervention with a reading disabled high school student. (DB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Difficulties
Gable, Robert A.; And Others – Pointer, 1986
The article presents guidelines for transforming information from conventional testing into data useful in classroom instruction of exceptional students. Steps are described first for converting a norm referenced test to instructionally relevant information, and second, for applying, rescoring, and summarizing results of the criterion referenced…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Hopkins, Martha H. – Pointer, 1986
Specific procedures for assessing a handicapped student's mastery level within a continuum of mathematics skills are described, and analysis of error patterns discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns
Code, Marjorie – Pointer, 1975
Described is the Patterned Observation and Intervention (POINT) Project which provides teachers with diagnostic teaching plans and sequenced academic tasks for kindergarten through third grade handicapped children. (CL)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education, Handicapped Children
Smith, Sally L. – Pointer, 1988
A list is presented of 70 typical academic problems of learning-disabled children that special educators must be able to diagnose and remedy. The problems are categorized as follows: reading, language, spelling, handwriting, arithmetic, thinking, and school task and behavior problems. (JDD)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Therapy
Katims, David S. – Pointer, 1989
The development of teacher-made "program pyramids" is recommended to organize individualized educational sequences for special needs students. The process involves analysis of the student's strengths and weaknesses, identification of general program domains, specification of program subdomains, statement of long-range goals, development of…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Disabilities, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
