The efficiency of several visual and auditory predictors of the Metropolitan Readiness Test was examined utilizing 106 grade 1 subjects considered by their teachers to show learning difficulties. (Author/JC)

Considers the causes of retardation in educational achievement and the consequent need for appropriately qualified teachers to provide and advise on suitable remediation programs. (Editor/RK)

This study describes the procedures and the results of an investigation of the homogeneity of the subscales of the Rhode Island Pupil Identification Scale, a pupil behavior-observation scale for use by teachers for detecting young children with learning problems. (Author)

The paper deals with the contribution of empirical psychology to the problems of instruction and proposes a conceptual framework to promote helpful interactions between experimenters and teachers of children with learning difficulties. Both groups share a common concern, the definition of tasks by testing instructions in action. (Author/DB)

Sixth grade students (N=8) identified as poor spellers significantly benefited from remedial instruction involving structural word analysis and self-questioning strategy, suggesting that effective spelling instruction involves conveying knowledge of phonics and the linguistic structure of words (domain specific knowledge) and knowledge of spelling…

Use of building-level teacher assistance teams (TATs) to provide suggested alternative instructional strategies and support services to regular teachers with problem learners prior to referral to special education is discussed in terms of relationship to special education, purposes, organization and operation, staff training, attitudinal issues,…

A new partnership between special education and regular education is advocated to address obstacles interfering with effective instruction for handicapped children. School psychologists must shift to a proactive position of preventing learning and instructional problems. Children must receive the best instruction and services possible within the…

In a school district of 54,000 students, 106 students were identified as having unilateral hearing loss. A review of their academic performance provided evidence that a unilateral hearing loss can place a child at risk for academic failure, especially when in the severe-to-profound range and/or involving the right ear. (Author/VW)

Reports the findings of programmatic research on the perceived seriousness of communication barriers to learning across five pedagogies, which uncovered a generalized ordering of specific concerns as well as dimensionality of learning barriers. Suggests that pedagogical research bound by discipline or university may be more generalizable than…

Points out that poor readers may exhibit behavioral, cognitive, and emotional problems. Offers a problem-solving framework for intervention in poor readers' nonacademic problems, and describes several possible types of intervention. (ARH)

Examined whether common factor structure was evident in Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and Adaptive Behavior Scale-School Edition for 171 children referred for evaluation of learning and behavior problems. Results indicated no common factor structure in instruments, Verbal Comprehension, Perceptual Organization, Independent…

A whole-school approach to meeting special needs is reflected in organizational changes at a girls' comprehensive school in England committed to mixed-ability teaching. The roles of the coordinator for special needs, education psychologist, key teachers in subject departments, and special needs support teachers are described. (JW)

Significant differences were found favoring skill-deficient second-graders (N=10) provided with repeated preteaching trials on a selected component skill of a subtraction algorithm before they worked the entire algorithm over students (N=10) who, from the beginning of training, received systematic instruction on working the entire algorithm.…

The aim of this paper is to examine primary concerns related to the introduction of Knowles's and Rogers's theories of adult education. Comparison of andragogy and student-centered theories includes the following areas: overview, foundations, general goals, learning principles, and teaching and learning and is followed by a summary and…

Focuses on how learning works. Discusses three major components related to processing information--sensory and perceptual systems, integration of information, and output of information--and developmental and environmental factors affecting brain information in each of these areas. Concludes with discussion of biological bases for cognitive and…