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Arithmetic Disability in College Students

Arithmetic Disability in College Students DISABILITY ARITHMETIC STUDENTS IN COLLEGE Lester Tarnopol Muriel Tarnopol is a deal of research data there great published relating Although with visual-motor and reading disability visual-perceptual deficits, little seems to have been done with arithmetic very disability. We wish to a of the found report preliminary study relationships arithmetic and visual visual-motor, among disability, figure-ground abilities in students. college Data were collected on 31 students males and college (19 who attended a remedial arithmetic course at a com- females) about half the students munity college. (Each semester, entering fail the entrance arithmetic test and are to the remedial assigned students were the Arithmetic section of the course.) Thirty given et al. Wide Achievement Test Range (WRAT) (Jastak 1965). took the Test of Visual-Motor Inte- Thirty-one Developmental and Buktenica of gration (DTVMI) (Beery 1967). Twenty-three these students also took the Closure Test Flexibility (CFT) and We also the DTVMI1 to seven (Thurstone Jeffrey 1965). gave retarded school students for mentally high comparison purposes. The DTVMI is of 24 to be composed geometrical designs the The norms for this test to 15.9 copied by subjects. go only the of and Lester is on faculties mathematics Tarnopol, ScD, psychology at the of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Academic Therapy SAGE

Arithmetic Disability in College Students

Tarnopol, Lester; Tarnopol, Muriel
Academic Therapy , Volume 14 (3): 6 – Jan 1, 1979
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DISABILITY ARITHMETIC STUDENTS IN COLLEGE Lester Tarnopol Muriel Tarnopol is a deal of research data there great published relating Although with visual-motor and reading disability visual-perceptual deficits, little seems to have been done with arithmetic very disability. We wish to a of the found report preliminary study relationships arithmetic and visual visual-motor, among disability, figure-ground abilities in students. college Data were collected on 31 students males and college (19 who attended a remedial arithmetic course at a com- females) about half the students munity college. (Each semester, entering fail the entrance arithmetic test and are to the remedial assigned students were the Arithmetic section of the course.) Thirty given et al. Wide Achievement Test Range (WRAT) (Jastak 1965). took the Test of Visual-Motor Inte- Thirty-one Developmental and Buktenica of gration (DTVMI) (Beery 1967). Twenty-three these students also took the Closure Test Flexibility (CFT) and We also the DTVMI1 to seven (Thurstone Jeffrey 1965). gave retarded school students for mentally high comparison purposes. The DTVMI is of 24 to be composed geometrical designs the The norms for this test to 15.9 copied by subjects. go only the of and Lester is on faculties mathematics Tarnopol, ScD, psychology at the of

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Published: Jan 1, 1979

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