Measures of print knowledge were compared across preschoolers with hearing loss and normal hearing. Alphabet knowledge did not differ between groups, but preschoolers with hearing loss performed lower on measures of print concepts and concepts of written words than preschoolers with normal hearing. Further study is needed in this area.

Studied were current academic achievement of students using braille in arithmetic computation as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test, and the benefit of using a computational device. (CB)

The annotated bibliography on research in the area of the gifted and talented contains approximately 100 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents selected from the computer file of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Center and published from 1959 to 1973. It is explained that the abstracts are chosen according to…

The study investigated achievement motivation of children with learning and behavior problems and examined effects of various types of verbal instruction on performance tasks and the resulting relationships of these verbal instructions to achievement motivation. The subjects were 48 third and fourth grade children diagnosed as having learning…

Students rated as aggressive-disruptive by teachers were found to achieve at significantly lower levels after 5 years than socially approved students. (KW)

Performances of 51 gifted and 51 normal intermediate students on 11 subtests of the Iowa Achievement Test indicated that vocabulary, mathematics concepts, spelling and graph interpretation were the areas that best discriminated the gifted Ss from the normal Ss. (CL)

The investigation provided no evidence that a diagnosis of minimal brain dysfunction based on a pediatric neurological evaluation and/or visual-motor impairment as measured by the Bender-Gestalt, is a useful predictor of academic achievement. (Author)

Thirteen hyperactive and 11 normal second graders were individually given four representative academic tasks in selected distracting environments during four one-hour testing sessions. (Author/SBH)

Information available from birth certificates was used to preduct the psychological and educational status of approximately 1,000 randomly sampled first-grade children. (Author)

Parent tutoring was found to be effective in raising the academic performance of elementary school children, and of particular benefit to emotionally disturbed children (affluent or disadvantaged) and to children from depressed areas. (KW)