This article describes training roles and experiences of a new special education paraprofessional. Offering two-year, A.A.-level training, the Child Health Care Worker Training Program gives such personnel clinical, academic, and community training which articulates with unmet special education needs for developmentally disabled children and their…

Presents a learning structure in written communication which proposes a new basic set of options for classroom work and which may be integrated into a conventional college curriculum. (Author)

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of a motivation and time-study course in reducing test anxiety. These results suggest that a motivation and time-study course, when offered in an academic context, can be an effective change agent for test-anxious academic low achievers. (Author)

The 11-item LAS is a quick, effective instrument which can discriminate affective correlates of current achievement level. Its ability to differentiate achievement levels can allow advisors and counselors to begin to detect students who are similar in feeling and attitude to people who drop out of higher education. (Author)

When compared with control Ss, experimental Ss showed significantly greater favorable change in seven areas. Followup research showed this program to be effective in combatting low achievement and in placing its students in challenging collegiate programs where they have remained and performed successfully for two years. (Author)