How to use listening to responses as a diagnostic tool to discover children's reading and comprehension problems. (RB)

A technique of using puzzle and problem solving to overcome the failure syndrome is discussed. (JM)

Teachers can be more effective if they develop an understanding of the causes of anxiety and the inner conflicts it may represent. (NH)

The author, a secondary school teacher in Tanzania, presents a test designed to be used as a diagnostic test before a controlled program of integrated grammar and composition teaching and as an achievement test afterwards. (FB)

Suggests that administering tests to students on the tasks in a learning hierarchy is a means of obtaining precise knowledge about the capabilities of individual students. Such knowledge is necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of learning difficulties. Decisions regarding the selection of appropriate learning tasks for students based on their…

The chief learning problems are seen to be in the formation of interrogative sentences, conditional sentences, passive construction, the use of indirect speech, and the use of could," might," should," and would." (FB)

Paper based on this research was presented at the 1968 American Educational Research Association Meetings, Chicago, Illinois. Paper supported in part by a grant from the U.S. Office of Education.

Paper presented at the 1969 International College and University Conference and Exposition (New York, N.Y., January 8-10, 1969)

Examines specific learning problems and points out additional problems when a student is an overachiever in one area and an underachiever in another. (JOW)

The article reviews the Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery in terms of its standardizaton and psychometric qualities, and its strengths and weaknesses regarding administration, scoring, and interpretation. (CL)

Although it is too early to make definitive statements about cognitive-behavioral efficacy for treatment of traditional academic problems, initial research indicates that school psychologists should implement some of these cognitive-behavioral techniques for the modification of classroom learning problems. Well-documented implementations will be…

In recent years, researchers have shown interest in errors that can frustrate teaching, training, and learning. A discussion of the form an overall theory of error might take is presented in a comparatively discursive and nonrigorous way. Thirty-two references are listed. (Author/CHC)