The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect
of experimenter delivered and microcomputer delivered
knowledge of results on the response speed of nonretarded
and mentally retarded public school students. Response
speed was measured for 63 nonretarded students and 63
mentally retarded students. Subjects were randomly
assigned to conditions...
The purpose of this study was to examine Korean
physical educators' attitudes toward teaching
handicapped students in their regular classes. Ninety-eight
schools were randomly selected from middle
schools in Korea. A total of 213 Korean physical
educators was the sample size used in this study.
The survey instrument used was...
The purpose of this study was to determine if parents of students
could improve the motor performance of their moderately and severely
mentally retarded children through the implementation of the
Data-Based Gymnasium (DBG) Instructional Model as a supplement to the
school program. The DBG Instructional Model is an individualized
system...
A Likert-type scale measuring attitudes toward the handicapped
was developed and used to investigate intercorrelations between
these attitudes and three other socio-political attitudes, namely
ethnocenterism, radical-conservatism, and authoritarianism. The
reliability was assessed by the split-half correlation coefficient
as corrected by the Spearman-Brown prophesy formula. The construct
validity was established by...
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effect of trials-to-criterion on the retention of a discrete motor skill (overhand beanbag throw) by moderately mentally retarded and severely mentally retarded individuals. Nonmentally retarded individuals were involved as a control group. The subjects were grouped by degree of retardation and...
The purpose of this research was to study the
effects of cerebral palsy on the ability to plan and
execute a gross motor movement, as measured by the
fractionation of Simple Reaction Time (SRT) into its
premotor (central) and motor (peripheral) components.
The experimental task required subjects (N = 10...
The purpose of this research was to determine the extent to
which parents and professionals were in agreement prior to and
following intervention regarding their Judgement of the gross motor
abilities of the parents' preschool children.
Each child was tested by a professional on the Ulrich Test of
Gross Motor...
The purpose of this study was to compare the
reverse-chaining and forward-chaining instructional
methods in teaching a motor task to mentally retarded
individuals. The subjects were selected from Fairview
Training Center, Salem, Oregon. Each of the subjects
was classified as mentally retarded with a range from
moderate to severe retardation....