Prior to attending Mount Wachusett Community College, Massachusetts, all freshmen are required to undertake a Comparative Guidance and Placement (CGP) test which yields raw scores in reading, sentences, math, and academic motivation. Based on the scores on the continuous independent variables measured by the CGP test and the dichotomous…

This study investigates the family and school influences on reading and mathematics achievement for students in a voluntarily desegregated school district. General findings suggest that the best main-effects predictors of both reading and mathematics achievement are prior levels of achievement in each area. However, further analysis of the data…

MOST OF THIS EVALUATION CONSISTS OF APPENDIXES TO A SUMMARY OF THE EVALUATION REPORTS OF THE VARIOUS PARTICIPANTS IN THE PROGRAM. PRINCIPALS REPORTED ON ASSEMBLIES, PARENT INVOLVEMENT, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, AND LAY ADVISORY COMMITTEES. SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT COUNSELORS FOUND PROGRESS MADE TOWARD BETTER HOME-SCHOOL RELATIONSHIPS. TEACHERS NOTED…

IN CAMDEN'S TITLE I PROJECTS REDUCTION OF CLASS SIZE WAS ATTEMPTED THROUGH THE LEASING OF 19 RELOCATABLE CLASSROOMS. CORRECTIVE READING INSTRUCTION WAS GIVEN TO 2,164 STUDENTS IN GRADES 2 THROUGH 11 WHO WERE NOT READING AT THEIR ABILITY LEVEL BUT WHOSE TEST RECORDS IDENTIFIED THEM AS BEING ABLE TO IMPROVE. EXTENDED SPECIAL AND MEDICAL SERVICES…

SPECIAL PROGRAMS IN REMEDIAL READING, EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION, SUMMER SCHOOL INSTRUCTION, AND SCHOOL-COMMUNITY COORDINATION ARE EVALUATED. ALTHOUGH THE REMEDIAL READING PROGRAM DID NOT ESTABLISH THE SUPERIORITY OF ANY PARTICULAR METHOD OF TEACHING, IT DEMONSTRATED THE VALUE OF HAVING A READING SPECIALIST ON THE SCHOOL STAFF. MOST 4-YEAR-OLD…

AN EXPERIMENTAL CLASS IN BICULTURAL AND BILINGUAL EDUCATION WAS CONDUCTED FOR THE CHILDREN OF MEXICAN DESCENT IN MARYSVILLE, CALIFORNIA. THE CLASS, PLANNED ON AN UNGRADED BASIS, INCLUDED 8 BOYS AND 11 GIRLS WHOSE AGES RANGED FROM 6 TO 10 YEARS AND WHOSE GRADE PLACEMENTS ORDINARILY WOULD HAVE BEEN FROM KINDERGARTEN TO GRADE 4. TWELVE OF THE 19…

The twofold objective of this book is to enable the teacher of English to speakers of other languages both to improve his own classroom measures and to make sound assessments of standardized tests which he may from time to time be asked to select, administer, and interpret. Chapters 1 and 2 introduce the general purposes and methods of language…

The article initially treats the difference between measurement (quantitative) and evaluation (qualitative) and explains the essentials for meaningful evaluation as being clearly defined course objectives, teaching methods, and testing procedures. The educational objectives in the "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Cognitive Domain"…

A longitudinal study was made of 56 boys, a highly homogeneous group from 44 families. All had attended a regular private elementary school for at least 3 years between 1930 and 1937. All were placed in three groups according to their performance on a language learning facility scale. The lowest 20 were rated as dyslexis, with specific…

The required annual report on compensatory programs funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title I, describes California's efforts in the first full year of operation. In general, the programs sought to raise reading and verbal performance levels, improve performance as measured by achievement tests, and also improve students'…

This report describes the events leading up to the desegregation of the public elementary and junior high schools in Syracuse and the effects and implications of the desegregation process. School officials were influenced in favor of school desegregation by the negative results of an extensive compensatory education program at a segregated junior…

This course (a series of six student workbooks, 230 tapes, and a teacher's guide containing a tapescript key) is designed for older children and adults learning English as a foreign or second language, or for speakers of nonstandard English dialects. Programed for self-instructional use and a minimum of assistance from the teacher, the course…

Articles on the effective use of audiovisual materials to help improve instruction comprise this volume. Included are "The Changing Program in English;""Directions in Current Literature Teaching;""Trends in the Teaching of the English Language;""Trends in the Teaching of Reading;""Detroit's Multiracial Reading Program;""What Do You See?"--a…

The report presents information on intellectual development and school achievement of youths in relation to selected socioeconomic and demographic factors. Estimates were based on data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics from 1966-70. The survey sample consisted of 6,768 adolescents aged 12-17 years. Measurement instruments were…

Major priority areas established by the American Indian (Lumbee) Parent Committee of the Indian Elementary and Secondary School Assistance Program for Robeson County, North Carolina were: remedial reading; additional vocational education; special guidance programs; accelerated training for gifted; specialists in math; and cultural enrichment…