Designed to improve underachieving high school students' reading and communication skills, the Secondary Developmental Reading program served 909 ninth, tenth, and eleventh graders in 13 Ohio schools. Funding was made available through the Ohio Disadvantaged Pupil Program Fund (DPPF). Nine teachers from eight high schools participated in the 1985-1986 program, using Apple computers as instruction aids, and diagnostic tests to assess students' individual reading strengths and weaknesses. Data analyzed included pretest and posttest scores, and inservice evaluation forms. Specific objectives of the program were (1) that pupils who attended 80% of the 7-month training period would show an average of 1.0 Normal Curve Equivalency (NCE) for each month, and (2) that program personnel would be provided at least two inservice sessions and that at least 80% of the personnel attending each session would rate the session as valuable. Neither goal was attained. Cost per pupil was greater and NCE gains smaller in the computer-assisted group than in the regular group. One of the inservice sessions was rated as valuable by less than the requisite 80%. An extensive list of program recommendations was compiled, including ways to increase attendance and to review the program to determine whether it should be continued, modified, or discontinued. (Tables of data are included, and evaluation forms are appended.) (AEW)