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Powell, Charles C.; Sydnor, T. Davis – 1985
This slide script, part of a series of slide scripts designed for use in vocational agriculture classes, deals with recognizing and controlling diseases found on ornamental landscape plants. Included in the script are narrations for use with a total of 80 slides illustrating various foliar diseases (anthracnose, black spot, hawthorn leaf blight,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Skills, Botany, Disease Control
Ascher, Carol; Schwartz, Wendy – 1987
Determining how many students drop out of school and why they leave is not easy. The definition of a "dropout" varies from school district to school district, and the mobility of students makes counting them accurately nearly impossible. In an effort to define dropouts in a way that can be applied uniformly across the country, a…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention, Dropout Rate
Howley, Craig B.; Howley, Aimee A. – 1987
Poverty prevalent in rural areas is associated with unequal representation in gifted programs. Some impediments to equal access include cultural prejudice, family distrust of schools, the stigma of academic success, inappropriate identification practices, and poor funding for rural programs. Five rural states have adopted measures to promote…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1987
This joint hearing before the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and the House Committee on Education and Labor focused on educationally and economically disadvantaged children. Of special concern were children living in poverty, those from single parent families, and those whose parents are teenagers. Educational programs are needed to…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Children, Community Role, Early Childhood Education
Benavides, Alejandro – 1988
The paper, originally given at a 1986 Ethnic and Multicultural Symposium, reports on the development and use of a screening instrument for use with language minority students. The literature on disproportionate representation of racial and language minorities in special education and the assessment of limited English proficient students is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation
Ramirez, Bruce A.; Johnson, Marilyn J. – 1988
The paper, originally given at a 1986 Ethnic and Multicultural Symposium, provides an overview of educational opportunities for American Indian handicapped and gifted/talented students in the United States. Prevalence data of handicapping conditions among Indian children is presented for public schools, schools under the Bureau of Indian Affairs,…
Descriptors: American Indians, Culture Fair Tests, Delivery Systems, Disabilities
Akins, Nancy T. – 1988
Parents and teachers of learning-disabled children in a Christian elementary school did not have adequate knowledge and understanding of learning disabilities and the effect these disabilities have on a child's ability to function at home, in the classroom, and in other areas of life. A practicum project was developed to inform parents and…
Descriptors: Educational Therapy, Elementary Education, Handicap Identification, Intervention
Clarkson, Lorraine; And Others – 1983
This two-dimensional, action-oriented curriculum model for teaching geography at the secondary school level provides a rationale for implementing a student-structured, process-oriented curriculum. Two diagrammed models, which are general enough to represent any learning process, illustrate the ideas developed in the rationale and accompany each of…
Descriptors: Classification, Curriculum Development, Experiential Learning, Geography Instruction
Weiss, David J.; McBride, James R. – 1983
Monte Carlo simulation was used to investigate score bias and information characteristics of Owen's Bayesian adaptive testing strategy, and to examine possible causes of score bias. Factors investigated in three related studies included effects of item discrimination, effects of fixed vs. variable test length, and effects of an accurate prior…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Adaptive Testing, Bayesian Statistics, Computer Assisted Testing
Hawaii State Dept. of Education, Honolulu. Office of Instructional Services. – 1982
Standards and guidelines are provided for school districts in Hawaii for identification of emotionally handicapped (EH) students, previously designated "seriously emotionally disturbed," and for developing educational programs to serve this population. Differentiation is made between the EH child, who requires special services for severe…
Descriptors: Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Eligibility, Emotional Disturbances

Dunkeld, Colin; Dunbar, Zola – 1983
A study used Marie Clay's complete diagnostic survey (diagnostic survey and recovery procedures from "Early Detection of Reading Difficulty") in two first-grade classrooms in order to ascertain class profiles for January and April of 1983, the reactions of teachers, instructional changes, and changes in the children's reading behaviors…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Classroom Research, Early Identification, Grade 1
Altink, Wieby M. M. – 1987
The degree of predictive validity and the relationship with previous learning conditions were studied for measures used in admission procedures for upgrading courses in science and mathematics in Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. School results, achievement tests, aptitude tests, and ability tests were evaluated for students leaving secondary…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Achievement Tests, Admission Criteria, Admission (School)
Wakefield, John F. – 1987
The history of divergent-thinking tests suggests that new approaches to creativity testing are needed. Research has focused on the relation of creativity to insight, divergent problem solving, problem finding, and intelligence. A proposed situational model of creativity defines creativity as a meaningful response to open-problem, open-solution…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Cognitive Processes, Creativity, Creativity Tests
Derevensky, Jeffrey L.; Mardell-Czudnowski, Carol – 1986
This study investigated whether the Developmental Indicators for the Assessment of Learning-Revised (DIAL-R) norms, established with American children, are applicable to a Canadian population. Based on an early childhood model which incorporates ecological validity as well as predictive validity, the DIAL-R assesses three areas: motor, concepts…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Correlation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Sanders, Jack; And Others – 1986
This paper reports the status of the Profile of School Excellence (PRO-S/E) after three years use and the results of a second validation study. The PRO-S/E, used in over 20 school districts in six states, is a diagnostic system school districts use to determine strengths and weaknesses based on 11 characteristics of effective schools. Data is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Identification