In this article, we critically review the work of Morgan et al. (2015) and offer Disability Studies in Education (DSE) as an alternative conceptualization to traditional research within special education. We first unpack many of Morgan et al.'s (2015) assumptions, which are grounded in deficit discourses about children, family structures, economic…

The closely related, but often contradictory, issues of increasing access to university and improving students' chances of success in their university studies have been and continue to be an important research focus within higher education studies and policy in South Africa and beyond. More recently, the challenge of underpreparedness of students…

Standardized testing for college admissions has grown exponentially since the first administration of the old "College Boards" in 1901. This paper surveys major developments since then: the introduction of the "Scholastic Aptitude Test" in 1926, designed to tap students' general analytic ability; E.F. Lindquist's creation of…

This article focuses on the early research domains investigated by Michael Pressley, along with the integrations and initiatives that were inspired by them. These research domains include verbal and imagery elaboration memory strategies, and developmental aspects of them; interrogative elaboration; pictorial strategies for language and literacy…

Although academic ability is the most important explanatory variable in studies of student learning, researchers control for it with a wide array and combinations of proxies. The authors investigated how the proxy choice affects estimates of undergraduate student learning by testing over 150 specifications of a single model, each including a…

To test the hypothesis that learning depends on the influence and interaction of three primary variables--instruction, learner aptitude, and learning environment--an explanatory model was tested during the 1967-68 school year in an experiment conducted with the cooperation of a simple random sample of 56 teachers drawn from the National Science…

Indicates that presenting mathematical word problems in abbreviated form is not helpful to either good or poor readers. (FL)

This study is concerned with the problem of measuring rate of learning in individualized instructional situations, and with the relationship between rate and a number of variables. Pupil aptitude, achievement, and classroom performance were measures correlated with learning rates in six different Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI)…

This report reviews and synthesizes psychological and educational research on learning strategies. The report contains an overview of strategy modification; a review of factors influencing strategy selection and use (including intellectual aptitude, personality variables, cognitive style, reception preference, motivation, sex, and prior…

This report focuses on students who are underrepresented in the high academic achievement pool by calling attention to the important role that relational data management systems can play in educational decision making, particularly with regard to how they can be applied to closing the academic achievement gap. After explaining the need for data…

Educational psychologists can help create and preserve an experimental mood in education whereby scientists, educators, curriculum designers, teachers, parents, and students feel they have a direct part in decisions to improve their schools. (Author)

Summarizes the results of a number of Queensland studies of selection of students for admission to tertiary institutions. The value of each approach for students and tertiary institutions is considered and appropriate selection indices are described. Evidence of the validity of the scholastic aptitude measure for the rescaling task and of the…

Black college students from three socioeconomic levels were compared on the variables of Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores, attrition after a two year period, grade point averages (GPA) and correlation between the SAT and first semester GPA. The middle socioeconomic group consistently performed most poorly on GPA. (Author/KM)

Extends P. E. Jonson's studies of physics learning by analyzing, on the basis of a 12-student control group, 24 high-school students' word associations, aptitude scores, and achievement results during instruction. Indicated a positive relationship between problem-solving ability and meaningful concept formation. (CC)