James Tucker

James Tucker
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | Chatt · School of Education

PhD Educational Psychology

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Introduction
Formerly, Dr. Tucker served as Director of the Bureau of Special Education, Pennsylvania Department of Education and Director of Federal Programs for the Department of Special Education, Texas Education Agency. Dr. Tucker has served as a Consultant/trainer to hundreds of school systems, both public and private in more than 40 states and provinces in North America, as well as to school systems in Brazil, Canada, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, the Philippines, and the West Indies.
Additional affiliations
July 1978 - July 1988
Educational Directions Incorporated
Position
  • Managing Director
January 1993 - January 2001
Andrews University
Position
  • Professor of Educational Psychology
January 1988 - January 1993
State of Pennsylvania
Position
  • Director of the Bureau of Special Education
Education
August 1968 - May 1972
University of Texas at Austin
Field of study
  • Educational Psychology

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Publications (99)
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The Vietnam War left in its wake not only physical casualties but psychological ones as well. Among the most significant features of the war's aftermath are numerous and well-documented cases of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Despite having been observed by writers, scholars, and others as early as biblical times, it was not until the emotio...
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Abstract: Incremental rehearsal is an instructional strategy that begins with an assessment of what is known (prior knowledge), presents new information in small increments (micro-learning), and allows for adequate rehearsal (repetition) in order to ensure automaticity (mastery). The term incremental rehearsal emerged from a prolific period of inst...
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Incremental rehearsal is an instructional strategy that begins with an assessment of what is known (prior knowledge), presents new information in small increments (micro-learning), and allows for adequate rehearsal (repetition) in order to ensure automaticity (mastery). The term incremental rehearsal emerged from a prolific period of instructional-...
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The importance of intervening early and effectively to help more students achieve learning success cannot be overstated, because early learning success lays the foundation for a child’s learning future. Children who come to be successful at reading, writing, mathematical thinking and learning in general tend to be more successful throughout their e...
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Curriculum-based assessment for instructional design and curriculum-based measurement both involve measurements of reading fluency, which are often interpreted through comparisons to local norms. However, local norms are not always available and some scholars argue for a criterion-referenced approach when making instructional decisions. The current...
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Research has demonstrated increased retention from drill, but the data regarding drill format are inconsistent. Two commonly used models, Drill Sandwich (DS) and Incremental Rehearsal (IR), were compared to each other and to a traditional flashcard method by individually teaching words from the Esperanto International Language to 25 3rd- and 26 7th...
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The Leadership Program at Andrews University is provided in accordance with a set of theories of action (Hatch, 2002). This article explores one of these action theories: The program is competency-based as opposed to course-driven. In earning a graduate degree in leadership, participants in the program work toward establishing and demonstrating com...
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The use of Gickling's model of Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) has been shown to increase student achievement. However, data are lacking to support the psychometric adequacy of the procedure. This study examined the interscorer, alternate-form, internal consistency, and test-retest reliability of CBA for reading using 93 elementary school aged ch...
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Perhaps no educational movement in recent history has generated as much ideological argument as has outcome-based education (OBE). Much has been written about the subject, and it is not the purpose of this interview to add to the debate by either promoting or denigrating the movement. For reasons that may never be entirely understood, the OBE movem...
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In Pennsylvania, instructional-support teams are being used as prereferral intervention groups to help teachers garner necessary school resources to meet students' increasingly complex academic, behavioral, social, and emotional needs. Onsite training elements include collaboration and team building, instructional assessment, instructional adaptati...
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The document features two articles on school reform in Pennsylvania. Part one discusses the Instruction Support Team (IST) (Kovaleski, Tucker, and Duffy). The IST process is an intensive building-based pre-referral intervention program to assist elementary students experiencing difficulty in the classroom. The IST is a working group of teachers and...
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In the Spring 1993 issue of the JRCE the Suttons and E. Gail Everett describe the first research survey of the status of special education in fundamentalist Christian schools. Discovering a dearth of programs for exceptional students, the authors discuss reasons for the phenomenon and call for commitment and Christian concern for “all the children....
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ABSTRACT This paper examines past and present issues inspecial education and offers proposals toward the goal of providingspecial assistance to every student who needs it. Examples of pasterrors include the categorical assumption that disabling conditionscan be defined precisely and followed with appropriate services, andthe assumption that there i...
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This paper examines past and present issues in special education and offers proposals toward the goal of providing special assistance to every student who needs it. Examples of past errors include the categorical assumption that disabling conditions can be defined precisely and followed with appropriate services, and the assumption that there is a...
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Curriculum-based assessment (CBA) represents a shift from use of standardized tests as quantifiers of student achievement toward traditional data-based instructional management. The role of assessment in educational programs is explored through presentation of three contrasting perspectives: assessment for placement versus assessment for instructio...
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Perhaps the most significant finding presented by Danielson and Bellamy (see previous article) is consistency of the application of least restrictive environment (LRE) over time while there is such a significant variation in that application between states. This article suggests that LRE as a concept is semantically and traditionally loaded with lo...
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As a result of the powerful sanctions built into the Luke S. consent decree, the State of Louisiana successfully implemented radically different assessment practices which mandated prereferral intervention, curriculum-based assessment, state-wide in-service training for assessment personnel, and direct classroom intervention on the part of assessme...
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Curriculum-based assessment (CBA) is a new term for a teaching practice that is as old as education itself: using the material to be learned as the basis for assessing the degree to which it has been learned. In this article, the concept of curriculum-based assessment is introduced, and the stage is set for the articles which follow to present the...
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Researchers, policy makers, and teacher trainers, who were identified by peers as being on the “cutting edge” of research and programming in learning disabilities, responded to surveys in 1975 and 1981. The “experts” generally endorsed learning disabilities as a viable classification and asserted that learning disabilities are identifiable by speci...
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To understand the context within which screening and assessment of the handicapped are performed, it is necessary to define two functions of assessment—(a) diagnosis of handicap for placement eligibility, and (b) providing data for individual program planning. There has been recent criticism that assessment has focused primarily on the former at th...
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The current technical history of nonbiased assessment is highlighted. Definitions of fairness and experts' attempts to alleviate problems associated with bias in assessment are reviewed. Factors relating to nonbiased assessment are emphasized that normally do not receive sufficient attention. Decisions currently made as a result of the assessment p...
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Data from a large racially representative sample of school children show that the trend toward placing minority students into special education classes in disproportionate numbers has been complicated by the introduction of the learning-disability (LD) category. While the proportion of blacks in classes for the mentally retarded has decreased with...
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The Prescriptive Approaches to Remediation (PAR) Project
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The Computation of SOI Dimensional Age Equivalents From the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M
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Current Status of Teacher Education Research: 1972
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In-Service Consultation: A Way of Personalizing Instruction to Student Needs
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This study looks at the relationship between the size of the small interacting group (in numbers of persons) and its environment in this case, the density of its immediate population. We hypothesized that persons in more densely populated areas will gather for social interaction in smaller groups, in fewer bisexual groups. As density increases, mal...
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Structure of Intellect Analysis for the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M
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A Plan to Achieve Change
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Minimal Brain Injury & Learning Disabilities from a Parental and Professional Point of View
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Explores the following questions: Who is buying school psychology?; Are psychologists and educators partners?; Are educational systems buying student success?; What are school psychologists selling?; Do educational systems want student success?; and What is the response of psychologists? It is concluded that school psychologists must become a unite...
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ROM 20 to 24 October 1966 the Florida Audubon Society held its annual leaders' conference near West End, Grand Bahama Island, located approximately 55 miles due east of West Palm Beach, Florida. During this period 137 species of birds were observed, several of which represent new records for the Bahamas and West Indies. On the night of 21-22 Octobe...

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