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Zhang, Dalun – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 2001
A study investigated whether 44 students (ages 11-19) with mild mental retardation demonstrated more self-determination behaviors in regular classrooms than in resource classrooms. Results indicate that these students demonstrated more self-determination behaviors in resource classrooms. Implications for self-determination instruction and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Environment, Environmental Influences, Inclusive Schools
Hestad, Marsha; Avellone, Kathy – 1991
This semester unit on change was designed for use in a pull-out program (meeting approximately 90 minutes per week) for gifted students in grades 1 through 3. The unit focuses on how change affects people's daily lives and impacts on the family, community, culture, government, and world. The basic goals of the unit are for the students to…
Descriptors: Change, Enrichment Activities, Geography, Gifted
Skiba, Russell; And Others – 1982
Twenty pairs of students from seven special education resource rooms (elementary and intermediate grades) were assessed on the structure of the instruction they received. Their reading achievement was measured three times during the year. The instructional programs for 10 experimental students were to be based on their teachers' use of continuous…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
Poulos, Nicholis – 1985
The report evaluates the Non-Public Schools Learning Resource Centers Program, an approach to providing remedial reading and mathematics instruction to Chapter 1 eligible students who were underachieving in math and/or reading and whose difficulties had not been remedied by normal school services. The program featured pullout services in…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Hess, Karin K. – 1990
The document reports findings of a 1988-89 survey of all school districts in New Jersey to determine the status of gifted education. Major findings included the following: a total of 122,626 New Jersey students were identified and served during the 1988-89 school year; a larger percentage (11.3%) of the total school population was served than in…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Yau, Maria – 1988
A literature review is presented on four alternative models of delivering special services to learning-disabled students. The literature search was conducted to identify pedagogically sound, effective, and efficient program approaches as alternatives to resource room programs. The four models identified from a search of the Canadian, American, and…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Disabilities
Capper, Colleen A. – 1989
Rural poverty causes implementation of P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975, to be uniquely different from urban implementation. Rural areas may try to emulate urban policies, where it is possible to identify and group severely handicapped children for appropriate services, but in rural areas the availability of…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Studies, Poverty Areas
Isaacs, Lorna M.; Stennett, R. G. – 1979
The report--half of which consists of appendixes--describes a pilot project in London, Ontario (Canada) designed to examine the issues involved in including constant communication and cooperation between classroom teachers (CTs) and learning resource teachers (LRTs) as part of the remedial process for students with learning problems. A series of…
Descriptors: Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Intervention
Harrison, Betty D.; Dallon, Trilby – 1977
A model for evaluating the progress of handicapped children in resource settings is proposed, and results of field testing the model in elementary and junior high school resource rooms are presented. It is explained that the evaluation model was designed to meet the requirements of P.L. 94-142, The Education for All Handicapped Children Act of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Federal Legislation, Handicapped Children, Junior High Schools

Swart, Richard – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1979
The author describes a resource room program to help junior-senior educable mentally retarded students in a modified open classroom designed to facilitate learner involvement on an individualized basis and to emphasize affective growth. (SBH)
Descriptors: Humanistic Education, Individualized Programs, Mainstreaming, Mental Retardation

Belcastro, Frank P. – Roeper Review, 1987
Evaluation of the effectiveness of pull-out programs for meeting elementary gifted students' needs found such programs inadequate in meeting several criteria: integration with ongoing curriculum; rigorous identification procedures; daily activities; interaction with intellectual peers; pace matching and challenging students' learning rates; and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Enrichment Activities, Evaluation Criteria
Pearl, Linda F. – Techniques, 1987
Toward Affective Development (TAD), a 191-lesson program designed to stimulate psychological and affective development for third- through sixth-graders, can be used in special education, resource rooms, and remedial settings. TAD's five sections encompass: openness to experience, effects of emotions, group dynamics, individuality, and conflict…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Curriculum, Disabilities, Humanistic Education

Mastropieri, Margo A.; And Others – Behavioral Disorders, 1988
Two variations of a level system as a behavior management tool for behavior-disordered and learning-disabled adolescents (N=19) in a resource setting were evaluated. Four color-coded levels were designed to decrease talkouts and out-of-seat behaviors. During system implementation, disruptive and off-task behaviors decreased, and task completion…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attention, Behavior Disorders

Maheady, Larry; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1988
This study examined the effects of a classwide peer tutoring program on the academic performance of 20 mildly handicapped students enrolled in two separate sections of a secondary resource room program. Methodology and results are discussed. (Author/JL)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Disorders, Learning Disabilities, Mild Disabilities

Margalit, Malka – Journal of Special Education, 1985
Comparison of questionnaires completed by 32 therapeutic teachers, 39 regular teachers, and 28 school psychologists in Israel resulted in a unified picture of the therapeutic teacher's role. Therapeutic aspects and emotional features were clearly preferred to academic improvement. Psychologists as a group were more reserved in expectations, but…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Resource Room Programs, Resource Teachers