Head Start is a national program that helps young children from families with low income get ready to succeed in school. It does this by working to promote their early learning and health and their families' well-being. The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) provides national information about Head Start programs and…

Scientific results are communicated visually in the literature through diagrams, visualizations, and photographs. In this thesis, we developed a figure processing pipeline to classify more than 8 million figures from PubMed Central into different figure types and study the resulting patterns of visual information as they relate to scholarly…

In 2011, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition revisited its 1999 National Survey of Senior Seminars and Capstone Courses to explore the current state of culminating experiences in American higher education. Drawn from a sample of public and private colleges and universities across the country, the…

In an attempt to regain the perspective of psychological research as a whole, a dimensional model was synthesized from several popular conceptualizations. (Author/RK)

The Mooney Problem Checklist (Mooney & Gordon, 1950) and a brief checklist of problem frequency similar to the 11 scoring categories of the Mooney were administered to 23 undergraduate students. (Editor)

The purpose of the present study was to examine knowledge retention as a variable of students graded by the contract and traditional grading methods in order to provide for teachers further evidence for choosing a grading method. (Author)

Hierarchical data analyses in different discipline areas are reviewed in this article to compare statistical applications between the Hierarchical Linear Model (HLM) software and the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) MIXED procedure. Similar features of the two software programs are illustrated through reconfirmation of an HLM example using the…

In the present study, the development of the ability to differentiate among various kinds of word meaning was explored with children from the eighth and eleventh grades as subjects. (Editor/RK)

It is predicted that, among children, Validity of Expectation is an increasing monotonic function of development and that invalid expectations are reflected to a greater extent in overestimation than in underestimation. (Author)

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)

Relationships between cognitive complexity as defined by the ITI [Interpersonal Topical Inventory (Tuckman, 1966) and the CST [Conceptual Systems Test (Harvey, 1967)] and a number of other information processing variables were examined using 107 grade eleven students. (Editor)

Two studies designed to analyze the role of reflection in logical deductive reasoning were conducted. (Editor)

This study investigated differences between WISC Full Scale IQs obtained on mentally retarded adolescents during their fifteenth year of age and WAIS Full Scale IQs obtained after their sixteenth birthday using both the eleven subtest WAIS and several abbreviated forms of the WAIS. (Editor)

25 nine year old children from the Outer Islands of Orkney were compared with a matched group of 25 children from Kirkwall in order to find out whether any differences existed in the development of geographical and spatial concepts as well as country and nationality. (Editor/RK)

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)