Three topics were discussed at this conference: (1) the supply and identification of high level talent; (2) problems of evaluation in general education; and (3) the development of tests for the measurement of non-intellectural functions. Tony Oxtoby and John T. Dailey discussed military and civilian personnel research on talent identification and…

Designed for students of speech pathology and audiology and for practicing clinicians, the text considers the nature of the articulation process, criteria for diagnosis, and classification and etiology of disorders. Also discussed are phonetic characteristics, including phonemic errors and configurational and contextual defects; and functional…

Outlined in this report developed at Goteborgs University are the construction and administering details for a test designed to measure passive proficiency in pronunciation of English as a second language. The phonemic choice, rhythm and intonation, and phonetic analysis factors of pronunciation are evaluated. A statistical correlation of the…

A TITLE III PROJECT OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965, THE CHILDREN'S ASSESSMENT-PLACEMENT-INSTRUCTION CENTER (CAPIC) STUDIES AND TREATS CHILDREN WHO MANIFEST LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS WITH NO RECOGNIZABLE CAUSES. THE REPORT, A LOG OF MAJOR ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON DURING THE PLANNING PERIOD, PRESENTS DEFINITIONS OF 24…

Of 27 children considered educationally handicapped (EH) who were screened by a psychological-medical team, 24 were eligible for a special pilot class for neurologically handicapped (brain damaged) children. Eight children were placed in the special class and made consistently greater gains in IQ scores, academic skills, and general behavior than…

A Title III project provided a special education diagnostic and resource center designed to meet educational needs of the estimated 3.5% of severely handicapped children not reached in the Greater Wichita area. A staff of three coordinators, two psychologists, two social workers, four subject area consultants, and a peripatologist processed 990…

Education for the hearing impaired is discussed in nine conference papers. J. N. Howarth describes "The Education of Deaf Children in Schools for Hearing Pupils in the United Kingdom" and A.I.Dyachkov of the U.S.S.R. outlines Didactical Principles of Educating the Deaf in the Light of their Rehabilitation Goal." Seven papers from…

To determine the accuracy with which the 47-item Predictive Screening Test of Articulation (PSTA) is able to identify first grade children who will master their articulation errors without speech therapy by the time they enter third grade, two groups of children were studied who were deficient enough in speech to be enrolled in therapy, but had no…

To study the teaching-learning process in classrooms, a small sample of carefully selected teachers at the second- and fifth-grade levels were identified for one phase of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study. A unique characteristic of this sample was that it included twenty teachers identified as relatively more effective in influencing…

In addition to providing demographic information and data on sex, age and college majors, 500 freshmen who attended DeKalb Community College orientation classes during fall 1977 were asked to rank various student subcultures according to preference. The subculture list followed the Clark-Trow model that defines four subgroups among college…

For this study, nine mental factors were selected from Guilford's structure of intellect model, and eight interest factors identified from a factor analysis of the Thinking Interest Survey. These factors were then treated as dependent variables in the assessment of two methods of teaching algebra to 244 college students. Students were assigned to…

Described are areas of speech and language which the speech pathologist must evaluate in the preschool screening process. Phonemic development, morphological development, syntax, and semantic development are discussed in terms of normal developmental stages and methods of evaluation. (LS)

Presented are 13 papers describing the Seattle Project and reviewing the literature relevant to the project's purpose of developing and testing an assessment format to enable nurses to better identify health and developmental problems in children. Six papers pertaining to predictor variables cover the areas of prenatal and perinatal factors,…

The handbook is designed to introduce administrative staff to the career education concept and to demonstrate the integration of career education-related learning concepts (self-awareness, occupational awareness, and educational awareness) into the major content-area subjects traditionally taught. The introduction discusses what career education…

This manual presents information on three instruments designed for surveying mental health problems in schools. Part I describes the instruments, which are two questionnaires called the School Problem Area Survey--Staff, and the School Problem Area Survey--Students, and a guide to be used in interviews, called the Demographic Information Form as…