The Perception of Ability Scale for Students was administered to 29 intellectually gifted students and 71 average achievers in grade six in New Zealand. Gifted students held significantly higher ability perceptions in general ability, arithmetic, reading/spelling, and confidence. No differences were found in perceptions of school satisfaction and…

Reports on a study that investigated the span of letter recognition (the region of text from which letter information is used during a fixation) for good and poor fifth-grade readers during a reading task. (HOD)

The goal of this study was to interpret patterns of consonance and dissonance between the parenting behaviors that parents report and those that their middle-school children expect them to report. A questionnaire was developed and administered to a sample of middle-school children in grades 6-8 in Felton Laboratory School at South Carolina State…

Reading disability subtypes were determined in 50 neurologically impaired students (ages 11-19), with and without reading disabilities. Subtypes found primarily in the reading-disabled sample were anomic-language disorder, dysphonetic and mixed dysphonetic-dyseidetic, oral reading deficit, intermodal association deficit, and sequential relations…

Major visuospatial and verbal abilities were assessed for 197 10-year-olds in Hong Kong and 170 10-year-olds in the United Kingdom. The Hong Kong subjects resembled their Japanese counterparts in having high Searman's "g," exhibiting abstract reasoning ability, high spatial ability, high perceptual speed, and low word fluency. (SLD)

This study investigated four types of media formats: (1) talking head; (2) voice-under-text; (3) voice-under-video; and (4) multiformat (combination of talking head, voice-under-video, and text). Sixty-four suburban middle-school students were shown four different narrative stories, each presented in a different media format. Students were tested…

Examined sociocultural influences on mathematics achievement. First generation Chinese American and Caucasian American mother-father-daughter triads were audiotaped as the fifth- and sixth-grade girls solved a spatial puzzle. Chinese American triads were quieter, more respectful, more serious, and more orderly, whereas Caucasian American triads…

High ability, average, and learning-disabled children in grades 4 and 7 were assessed on achievement, ability, perceived competence in cognitive ability, self-concept, and locus of control. Results indicated significant group differences on achievement and affective measures which were relatively stable and unaffected by cognitive strategies…

This bulletin presents reading research studies in the upper elementary grades during the period from 1955 through 1960. It represents an attempt to bring together the unpublished as well as published studies for that period. This compilation was undertaken by the U.S. Office of Education in response to requests from reading and language arts…

Designed to supplement intermediate or secondary level courses on sex roles or the family, the activities in this handbook enable students to examine changing sex roles and their effects on individuals and society. Materials are presented in three parts. Activities on perception and awareness (part 1) focus on identifying and reducing sex role…

This study was designed to explore an experienced teacher's thinking and teaching within the social and cultural environment of the classroom. It investigated the thinking, planning, subsequent action and reflection processes and relationships in a real situation of learning. A naturalistic approach was used to investigate the socio-cultural…

This study compares the administrative styles of principals of junior high schools with those of middle school principals. It also examines the school climates of these schools and analyzes the relationships between climate and administrative style. The population for the study consisted of 77 teachers from 19 middle schools and 69 teachers from…