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Harry Bragg, headmaster of Bower Grove School, takes a group of slow learners through a range of diagnostic tests. Five children from Bower Grove School are seen being tested in psychomotor and lan...guage skills. Included are tests based on those designed by Stott to assess gross motor skill (jumping, ball-bouncing and catching, fine motor skill (bilateral manipulative tests), and language comprehension (Reynell Verbal Comprehension). The film demonstrates some of the key learning difficulties of slow learning children. Having tested some of the children, Bragg also carries out remedial work in both manipulative and language skills. Remedial work in the former category involves breaking down a particular task into its component skills for ease of mastery. Remedial work in the language area involves use of the Bell and Howell Language-Master. This television programme provides the correspondence text 1 Slow learning children with visual primary source material, giving the student an opportunity to observe for an extended period of time the behaviour of slow learners. At one point in the film, time is deliberately stretched so that a child's reactions can be observed as well as his actual test performance.
Harry Bragg, headmaster of Bower Grove School, takes a group of slow learners through a range of diagnostic tests. Five children from Bower Grove School are seen being tested in psychomotor and lan...guage skills. Included are tests based on those designed by Stott to assess gross motor skill (jumping, ball-bouncing and catching, fine motor skill (bilateral manipulative tests), and language comprehension (Reynell Verbal Comprehension). The film demonstrates some of the key learning difficulties of slow learning children. Having tested some of the children, Bragg also carries out remedial work in both manipulative and language skills. Remedial work in the former category involves breaking down a particular task into its component skills for ease of mastery. Remedial work in the language area involves use of the Bell and Howell Language-Master. This television programme provides the correspondence text 1 Slow learning children with visual primary source material, giving the student an opportunity to observe for an extended period of time the behaviour of slow learners. At one point in the film, time is deliberately stretched so that a child's reactions can be observed as well as his actual test performance.
| Module code and title: | E281, Personality growth and learning |
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| Item code: | E281; 08 |
| First transmission date: | 22-07-1972 |
| Published: | 1972 |
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| Duration: | 00:22:50 |
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| Producer: | Edward Milner |
| Contributors: | Harry Bragg; Stephen Hammerton; Timothy Baker; Beverley Penn; Billy Holloway; Edward Lamaux; Jean Wright |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Bell and Howell Language-Master; Bower Grove School; Diagnostic tests; Gross and fine motor skills; Remedial work; Reynell Verbal Comprehension; Slow learners |
| Footage description: | In this programme Harry Bragg, Headmaster of Bower Grove (ESN) School, Maidstone, Kent, takes six pupils through some diagnostic tests for slow learners. Billy is seen jumping over a bar. Bragg introduces the programme. Billy jumping sideways, and bouncing a ball. Stephen doing the same tests as Billy. He is less successful. Bragg shows a remedial activity to improve ball bouncing. Beverley is tested on fine motor skills using sticks and tweezer, and wooden balls to be picked up. Jean is seen doing the same tests and another involving simultaneous threading. Timothy attempt the Reynell Verbal Comprehension Scale,matching descriptions to objects, using models of animals and cups and pennies. He practises words on the Language Master, which uses picture cards with description recorded on a magnetic stripe. The user can record and play back his pronunciation. Edward works on the Language Master. Credits over shots of the Reynell animal models. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/70348 |
| Production number: | 00521_2608 |
| Videofinder number: | 633 |
| Available to public: | no |
