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Brody, Lawrence; And Others – 1968
This report examines the College Discovery and Development Program, which seeks to identify underachieving disadvantaged high school students with college potential, to increase their academic motivation, to improve their scholastic achievement, to develop their acceptance of college study as a realistic expectation for themselves, and to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Preparation, Compensatory Education
Iowa State Dept. of Public Instruction, Des Moines. – 1969
Definitions, identification, and characteristics of gifted children are considered. Other areas covered are administrative responsibility, principal role, teacher qualifications, and inservice education. Objectives in program development are discussed as are program evaluation and differential education, including programs for enrichment,…
Descriptors: Acceleration, Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Enrichment Activities
Association for Childhood Education International, Washington, DC. – 1973
"Children and Intercultural Education" culminates the Association for Childhood Education International's three-year emphasis on a project, "Neighbors Unlimited," in which thousands of members and their local branches worked to broaden and intensify efforts toward bettering intergroup relations. This resource kit of three booklets is aimed at…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Context, Cultural Education
Skager, Rodney; Fitz-Gibbon, Carol – 1972
The aim of this investigation was to develop a justifiable and efficient procedure for locating the top two percent of the eighth grade students in an inner-city junior high school. The WISC performance IQ was chosen as the criterion measure. Four screening measures were used to select students for the WISC: an achievement test (the California…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academically Gifted, Cognitive Tests, Cultural Influences
Alexander, Ralph A.; And Others – 1970
This report describes an experimental study designed to manipulate and test cross-cultural similarities and differences in interpersonal perception despite the increasingly cosmopolitan nature of people from all cultures, greater frequency of social, business, educational and governmental contact among people from different countries, and the…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Class Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
Office of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1966
Intended for all persons concerned with differentiated education for talented elementary and secondary school students, the bibliography annotates 275 items (dating from 1956 to 1965 and including audio and video books, tapes, films, and filmstrips) in three groups. The first group includes materials on classroom practices, which are classified by…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Arithmetic, Curriculum
Watley, Donivan J. – 1971
This report concerns the 796,474 eleventh grade students from 17,757 public and private high schools who took the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (NMSQT) in February 1967, the thirteenth annual administration of the NMSQT. The schools in which the NMSQT is given enroll about 95 percent of all eleventh grade students in the United…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, College Choice, Educational Testing
Ross, Harvey L. – 1970
In this study, the attempt is made to isolate the factors that make individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds become successful. From data collected in interviews, the study concludes that "successful" and "unsuccessful" subjects differ in their memory of school life, self-esteem, loyalty to family, etc. The findings are summarized separately for…
Descriptors: Achievement, Aspiration, Behavior, Black Culture
McKnight, A. James; Adams, Bert B. – 1970
This resource guide is the first of a 4-volume report dealing with the development of driver education objectives through an analysis of the driver's task. Included are a detailed description of the behaviors required of passenger car drivers, rated criticalities of these behaviors, and items of supporting information relating to driver…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Achievement Tests, Behavior Standards, Behavioral Objectives
Cartwright, G. Phillip; Mitzel, Harold E. – 1971
Computer Assisted Remedial Education (CARE) I was developed for preschool and elementary school teachers to provide a college level computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course dealing with the identification and diagnosis of handicapping conditions in children. This first volume of the final report of CARE I covers the purposes and objectives of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Educational Diagnosis
Ontario Inst. for Studies in Education, Toronto. – 1969
The activities and experiences suggested in this guideline are organized into units of work, or topics, which are sequences designed to last for some weeks. The units are intended to add to the secondary school program certain fields of instruction that are important to the development of today's students. The guide is in three sections. The…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Objectives, Cultural Education, Cultural Influences
SMALL, DWAIN E.; AND OTHERS – 1966
THE FACTORS RELATED TO UNDERACHIEVEMENT AND LOW ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS LEARNING WERE STUDIED. USING AN INDIVIDUAL CLINICAL APPROACH, THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED WITH TWO SAMPLE GROUPS, 12 UNDERACHIEVERS AND 11 LOW ACHIEVERS, IN GRADES 4-6. SCORES WERE OBTAINED ON CONCRETE, SEMICONCRETE, AND ABSTRACT REASONING LEVELS FOR THE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Diagnostic Tests
John-Steiner, Vera; Cooper, Elizabeth – 1976
During the last decade, bilingual programs have increased dramatically in number and scope; but there are still many problems to be resolved in implementing cultural pluralism. The definition of who is bilingual is an important issue. Bilingual programs currently in existence vary between the widely used transitional model (where instruction is…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Compensatory Education
Hymel, Shelley; Asher, Steven R. – 1977
The purposes of this study were to learn about: (1) ways of identifying children not accepted by their peers, (2) the behavioral correlates of peer acceptance, and (3) strategies of teaching social skills to isolated children. Sociometric assessment, behavioral observations, and teacher and peer interviews were obtained in eight 3rd-, 4th-, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Jordan, Ethel S. – 1972
The manual for the remediation of perceptual handicaps at the early childhood level provides information on child development, identification and testing procedures, training procedures, 20 lesson plans, and a listing of instructional materials. It is explained that the instructional program can be used in individual tutoring or small group…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Early Childhood Education, Exceptional Child Education, Identification
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