This research represents an attempt to look closely at the actions which children are expexcted to perform in the early stages of reading and writing when taught by systematic methods, containing a phonic ingredient. (Author)

Performance on Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem was obtained as a validating measure in a study of the transition from concrete to formal thinking. The sample consisted of 236 children aged from 10 to 14 years. (Editor)

An experiment is reported which directly compared the effects of two procedures, recognition and inference, in assessing children's abilities to predict the viewpoint of others, and demonstrated less egocentrism in a recogniton than in an inference condition. (Editor/RK)

A factor analysis of the correlation matrix for the subsets of WPPSI was carried out for each of the age groups between 4 and 6 1/2 years. (Editor)

The EPI was administered to 136 full-time postgraduate Diploma in Education students. The relationships between personality, choice of method of assessment and achievement in four theory courses were investigated. (Editor)

This study aimed to investigate the relation between a test of formal operations reasoning and strength at Kohlberg's various types of moral development, using correlational techniques. (Author/RK)

Sixty children with reading ages 18 months or more below their chronological ages, were compared with a control group of the same size who had average or above average reading ages. Both groups completed a laterality questionnaire relating to different aspects of perception and handedness. (Editor)

An experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of preceding interviewees' performance on the assessment of a third candidate's interview. Mock interviews of candidates applying for medical school were recorded on video-tape, and were rated by 60 subjects. (Editor)

The aim of the present study was to relate performance on two reasoning tasks extensively studied by experimental psychologists (Wason and Johnson-Laird, 1972), to that on three mental tests, namely, the AH 5, Uses of Objects and the Stroop test. (Author)

Eight recent General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations, containing mainly free-response questions, were investigated in terms of their marking reliability. The tests of 200 randomly selected candidates from each subject were re-marked by a senior GCE examiner, and these marks were compared with the marks awarded previously as a result of…

The comparison of data from two vocabulary-learning studies involving a total of 2,483 males and females in the fifth and sixth grades suggests that "common sense" decisions regarding the selection and assignment of learning materials may be ineffecient if not detrimental. (Editor)

The relationships between class of degree in psychology from one department and (a) interview ratings, (b) two adult intelligence tests, and (c) advanced-level examinations were examined in a sample of 145 students from four-year groups. (Editor)

The present study assessed the relationship between impulsivity as measured by the Matching Familiar Figures test (MFF) and by the impulsivity (IMP) factor derived from the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory (JEPI) items identified by S. N. Bennet in 1973. (Author/RK)

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)