Meeting a key need, this is the first comprehensive guide to implementing a schoolwide response to intervention (RTI) program. The book is geared to helping practitioners understand and respond to No Child Left Behind and to the new special education eligibility guidelines outlined in IDEIA 2004. Presented are the theoretical and empirical…

A variety of testing methods can be extremely useful in finding out whether children who are experiencing learning difficulties may have one or more learning disabilities. This is an important and valuable role for testing. Another important issue concerns how best to ensure fairness for a learning disabled student when he or she must take a…

The everyday meaning and usage of several words can differ significantly from their meaning and usage in physics. Examining these differences, and how students respond to them, may shed some light on students' physical learning difficulties. We surveyed (N=154) students in a conceptual physics course on their use of some words, "force", "momentum"…

This book features a guide to teaching mathematics more effectively. Examining the different ways students acquire mathematical skills, it helps teachers develop flexible teaching methods that suit these varied ways of learning. Common areas of learning difficulty in mathematics and why students fail, ways for teachers to determine gaps in…

Describes problems encountered in teaching of heat at secondary level as stemming from the fact that the word heat is used to imply two ideas: energy and interactions. Suggests some necessary measures for a teacher to avoid confusion in heat teaching. (CC)

Beginning portion of the article; conclusion to appear in a later issue. (VM)

In a speech presented before the 45th annual meeting of the American School Health Association, Chicago, 1971, the author speculates about the new role school physicians will play in the area of learning problems. (Author)

Prescriptive assignments of an appropriate achievement level during math period resulted in increased attending during math period and slight increases in completion of all academic assignments. (Results were) maintained even after experimental procedures were withdrawn. (Author)

It was not known what recommendations were being offered by school psychologists to the teachers and parents of handicapped children. The investigator completed a survey and received 3,700 psycho-educational recommendations to aid such children. The concepts were classified, edited, and compiled into a manual for trainees and experienced…

Performance in cognitive tasks involves two distinct processes; acquisition of knowledge and cognitive control over knowledge already acquired. A conceptual and analytic framework is presented which allows for the disentanglement of knowledge and control, and for the quantification of each. (Author)

A family doll placement technique was used to study separateness and connectedness within the family as this varies over positive and negative emotional themes. As hypothesized, positive emotional themes were represented by closer doll placements than negative themes. Emotions were also characterized by using certain kinds of groupings and…

An examination of some of the assumptions and consequences of the educational application of the above terms to the child who is not making it." (JB)