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- Title
Education- lntervention for Underachievers.
- Authors
McGlannan, Frances; Barcai, Avner; Umbarger, Carter; Pierce, Thomas W.; Chamberlain, Pamela
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study designed to improve underachievement in school. Fourth and fifth-grade students from a low socio-economic area participated in the study. Three intervention techniques, group counseling, group remediation and art activity were applied to three different groups of students. Performance of the students improved differentially as a function of the specificity of intervention. The data suggest that children of a low socio-economic group who attend a slum school do improve, at least temporarily, as a result of specific, though brief, interventions. Improvement on intelligence subtests and in performance on the Tell-a-Story test show that even one hour a week of programmed intervention is valuable and up-grades performance in preselected tests. The same amount of time invested without appropriate focus does not have the same impact; the "benevolent" intervention of the art teachers was not sufficient to increase test scores. Though teacher's personality, expectation, and attitudes may enhance or retard any potential intervention effects, results showed these are not sufficient to produce a significant improvement without the actual training of skills provided by the intervention procedure.
- Subjects
UNDERACHIEVERS; GROUP counseling for children; GRADING of students; TEACHER attitudes; TEST scoring; EDUCATIONAL programs
- Publication
Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1973, Vol 6, Issue 10, p615
- ISSN
0022-2194
- Publication type
Article