Traditionally, when an "outside evaluation" concerning a child's problems in school is sought by families, schools anticipate that the results will be reported in the context of an adversarial relationship, and their experiences have often borne out this expectation. A multidisciplinary Learning Evaluation Center (LEC) based within a university…

Recent surveys have shown that pupils find the topics of esterification and condensation difficult. Reasons for the difficulty are not clear. Described is research designed to determine where the difficulties were visual or conceptual in origin. (RH)

Reports on recent findings which suggest that lead poisoning stems not only from paint ingestion, is not limited to ghetto children, and may be linked to some learning and behavioral difficulties in children. (Author/SF)

Difficulty levels of 168 randomly generated multiplication problems were obtained by testing 238 fifth-graders. Variables concerning the number of operations, digits carried, and magnitude of the digits were defined, and a least-squares procedure was used to construct structural models accounting for 60-70 per cent of observed problem difficulty…

A CLOSED CONFERENCE ON DYSLEXIA AND RELATED LEARNING DISORDERS WAS HELD AT SOUTHWEST TEXAS STATE COLLEGE ON MAY 15 AND 16, 1967. TWENTY-FIVE PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTED KEY PROFESSIONS AND RELEVANT INTEREST GROUPS, AND 10 OBSERVERS REPRESENTED FEDERAL AGENCIES. WITH RESPECT TO DYSLEXIA AND RELATED LEARNING DISABILITIES, THE CONFEREES ADDRESSED THEIR…

THE SCHOOL PHOBIA SYNDROME PROVIDES AN EXAMPLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF A CLINICAL SYNDROME. A REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE REVEALS THAT DETERMINANTS OF THIS PHOBIA ARE INTRAPSYCHIC, INTERPERSONAL, FAMILIAL, AND COMMUNITY FACTORS. WITH SO MANY FACTORS INVOLVED, AN EXTENSION OF THE CURRENT APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM WOULD INVOLVE FAR TOO MANY…

THE BASIC VIEWPOINT OF THIS CONFERENCE IS THAT CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES MUST BE EVALUATED INDIVIDUALLY ACCORDING TO THEIR SPECIFIC DYSFUNCTIONS AND PLACED IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS ACCORDING TO THEIR INDIVIDUAL NEEDS. IN THE FEATURED ADDRESS, "NEW APPROACHES IN EDUCATION FOR THE CHILD WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES," BARBARA BATEMAN…

APPROXIMATELY 1,400 CITATIONS RANGING IN DATE FROM 1868 TO 1967 WHICH RELATE TO DYSLEXIA AND LEARNING DISABILITIES ARE INCLUDED IN THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY WHICH IS A COMPILATION OF LISTS SUBMITTED TO ERIC/CRIER BY INVESTIGATORS INTERESTED IN THE TOPICS. CITATIONS ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR AND INCLUDE BOOKS, MONOGRAPHS, MANUALS, AND PUBLISHED…

The general purpose of this project was to initiate, implement and evaluate a program concerned with developing improved and more effective techniques for the reduction or prevention of learning and behavior problems in children. The children included in the PACE I.D. Center Study were an extreme group as far as behavior and learning problems were…

Studies have demonstrated that students learn to seek pleasurable learning situations and learn to avoid painful ones; however, when they do not have sufficient information at their disposal to determine whether or not their behavior will have a pleasurable or painful outcome, they experience a psychological conflict we are calling…

The present study examined the effects of varying meaningfulness of response terms (low, medium, and high) in paired-associate learning of five-or seven-item lists over five trials with both experimenter-paced and self-paced conditions. The subjects were two groups of elderly adults, 61-75 and 76-92. (Author)

Two publications on multicultural awareness are reviewed: The Toronto Board of Education "Final Report..." is credited for its "anti-assimilationist" position; "Black Students in Urban Canada" is faulted for its emphasis on West Indian black immigrants while ignoring the "established" Canadian black…

The author reviews research on the use of the ability training model and the task analysis in diagnostic/prescriptive teaching for students with learning difficulties. (CL)

Research regarding the characteristics and applications of "errorless" learning methods (stimulus shaping, stimulus fading, and superimposition) indicates that such methods provide a means of designing instruction and materials to facilitate the acquisition of skills, with minimal or no errors, by "difficult to teach" students.…

This study details the establishment of a teacher/learner laboratory at Monash University in Australia and the information it yielded about the learning and teaching of mathematics. Both instructors and learners understood they were cooperating to help develop an understanding of difficulties in learning and teaching strategies and ways to reduce…