One of the programs included in "Effective Reading Programs...," the Continuous Progress Reading Program is structured by specific performance objectives and corresponding diagnostic test items within each of 17 sequential levels. Begun in 1971, the program serves first through sixth grade students in a number of schools. The students…

This program, included in "Effective Reading Programs...," is used schoolwide for 327 children in kindergarten through grade six, including bilingual and educationally disadvantaged children. Begun in 1966, the program uses a multimedia, multimethod approach to reading instruction that is based on individual diagnosis and prescription.…

An interactional view of the factors of school success or failure is presented which encompasses the student's strengths, weaknesses, and limitations on the one hand and specific classroom situational factors on the other. The child's success in the classroom is seen as dependent upon the congruity of his characteristics and the characteristics of…

The role of the classroom teacher as a diagnostician is described. Since the purpose of reading diagnosis is to ascertain the probable potential of each student and to determine what his instructional needs are and where to begin instruction, extensive individual testing is neither possible nor recommended for the classroom teacher. However,…

A Chicago suburban public school with approximately 450 children per grade level demonstrated a system-wide program for identification, diagnosis, and educational treatment of children with learning disabilities in grades 2 through 6. Children were judged to underachieve when achievement measures in language or mathematics fell more than 10% below…

The impact of a 6-week summer Computer Based Resource Unit writing workshop was investigated with 60 third-year preservice teachers during 1 year and 100 similar teachers during year 2. Thirty experimental Ss in the year 1 workshop focused on understanding individual differences with 30 objectives, 217 content items, 343 instructional activities,…

The Special Reading Project is designed to serve those students who are identified as education deprived (not achieving at grade level expectancy) in the language arts area. The project is staffed with personnel trained to diagnose learning problems and prescribe individual educational plans to be implemented through prescriptive teaching. The…

A wealth of instructional information is intrinsic to standardized achievement tests. Most practioners fail to realize the availability or potential of item analysis information or are unable to utilize such information appropriately. Achievement tests have not fully accomplished their purposes if the information derived stops at just test scores…

This study investigated the effectiveness of an observational technique developed to study characteristics of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) system and the extent to which IPI adapts to individual student differences. Subjects for the study were students from a second grade IPI classroom of an inner-city public elementary school.…

The outcomes of an inservice program to effect a positive change in attitude of teachers toward the specific reading problems of individual children are described. It was hypothesized that an awareness of isolated information would help develop the professional sophistication commensurate with the expected quality of teaching which was to be…

Aptitude-treatment interaction research is designed to identify significant disordinal interactions between personological variables and alternative instructional programs. This study was designed to investigate the efficacy of the aptitude treatment interaction design to research seeking to identify differential educational payoff of alternative…

This learning guide helps teachers to understand the typical steps used in the construction of commercially produced, educational skills-management systems; to describe a representative set of such materials in the field of reading (the Wisconsin Design for Reading, the SRA "Diagnosis: An Instructional Aid," the Croft Word Attack and Comprehension…

The usefulness of miscue analysis as a teaching organizer for diagnostic and evaluative remedial reading instruction was investigated in a sample of 28 black high school students. The students were divided into a control group of 14 pupils and two experimental groups of seven students each: an intensive class needing individual instruction and an…

The effectiveness of providing tactile-kinesthetic sensory input during reading instruction was investigated in a sample of 60 kinesthetic-preferring first-grade pupils. Children were randomly assigned to a method which was predominantly visual, predominantly auditory, or predominantly kinesthetic. Each child received three 20-minute, individual…

This manual describes an English skills program which provided individualized basic skills instruction to 280 low-achieving high school students. English teachers and reading teachers worked together in the English classroom to meet the needs of students whom guidance counselors had determined, through achievement test scores, IQ, classroom…