This investigation studied the differential effects of the significance of stimuli on educable mentally retarded (EMR) children in a conservation of number experiment. The sample consisted of 30 low and 30 middle SES children attending classes for the EMR. (Editor)

The results of this research indicated that whether pictures adversely affect learning to read or not depends on the relationship between the picture and the printed word, a direct equivalence being the least favorable. (Editor/RK)

This research tests the hypothesis that differences in academic performance between children who have never moved and children who have moved once or several times before to a great extent stem from the fact that they perform differently prior to mobility. (Author/RK)

This study examined how sex-stereotyping and liking or disliking of teachers may affect subject preferences and subject choice in single-sex and co-educational secondary schools. (Author)

The extent to which 230 university students following a one-year psychology course were 'active' (i.e., competitively or recreationally involved) in sport or 'non-participant' was compared with their scores on measures of personality, attitude, social class, sex, previous school involvement in sport, and attainment in university course work.…

This study tested the hypothesis that if a course is designed to encourage creative thinking and the corresponding examination provided a valid test of the extent to which the course objectives have been achieved, one could reasonably expect measures of divergent thinking ability and achievement in the examination to be positively correlated.…

The purpose of the exploratory study reported here was to examine the nature of teacher-pupil contact in informal junior classrooms in terms of the teacher's method of talking to children and the teacher's conversational approach. (Author/RK)

Discusses methodology and results of a study which uses the distinction between deep-level and surface-level approach, to examine the way first-year psychology students tackle studying of a text, and extent to which these study strategies are related to student views on learning conceptions and the quality of learning outcome. (MBR)