The relationship between 45 high school students' attitudes and their involvment in peer-tutoring programs for "slow learners" was examined. Results showed that students' attitudes toward tutees were unrelated to peer-tutoring behavior, whereas there was a trend for their attitudes towards their own tutees to predict whether they met with them.…

This article reports a study that compared slow learners' attitudes toward the freedoms described in the Canadian Bill of Rights with those of vocational and academic students. As a group, slow learners in Canada scored significantly below vocational and academic students, and the scores for each group suggested only a slight libertarian bias.…

Using 130 rural, culturally deprived slow learning children, group operant and individual operant techniques were compared in classrooms of normal size. (Editor)

The relationship between high school students' attitudes and their involvement in a peer tutoring program for slow learners was examined, on the basis of M. Fishbein's theory of reasoned action, which suggests that the best predictor of behavior is the individual's intention to perform the behavior and that intentions are functions of attitude and…

GRADES OR AGES: No mention; appears to be for secondary grades. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical sciences for slow learners. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 11 units, each of which is further subdivided into several chapters. Each chapter is laid out in three columns; column headings are concepts, content, and activities.…

Examined normal (N=34), learning disabled (N=34), and borderline mentally retarded (N=33) children's performance on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) and the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC). Results revealed no significant differences between the WISC-R Full Scale IQ and K-ABC Mental Processing Composite…

Results of interviews, attitude scales, questionnaires, and school record reviews revealed that teachers (N=120) generally approved of the principle of integration of slow learners while viewing the practice as impractical and sometimes undesirable. Students were not particularly antagonistic to slow learners, and parents were generally satisfied…

Attitudes acquired by a child in his early school years influence his later decision to continue schooling or drop out. The Creative Problem Solving Class students are given an opportunity to progress at their own pace. Every creative process is utilized, and a better self-image is the result. (CK)

A student's inability to keep pace with the demands of the classroom can produce painful feelings of inadequacy, performance anxiety, depleted motivation, and even behavioral maladjustment. Too often, schools respond to such students with well-intentioned procedures or guidelines that fail to meet the needs of the thwarted learner. However, in…

This resource guide, compiled for reference use by teachers, counselors, and other people involved with the vocational guidance and education of slow learners, contains materials selected on the basis of having a direct use for or application to the specified area. While no consistent bibliographical form is used, the following categories have…

Problem-solving tasks used with adolescent slow learners demonstrated that, inspite of low WISC scores, students could solve the tasks. (AA)

Early intellectual deprivation is reversible and reversible within the average classroom. (Editors/JA)