This study was intended to determine whether sex-linked mathematics achievement and contextual differences persist into the university years. A random sample of 150 first-year mathematics students enrolled at a midwestern university was identified. A common 30-item calculus readiness test and a 37-item questionnaire, dealing with students'…

Examines the relationship between probability learning and aging by studying the performance of 48 young and 48 old adults in a probability learning task which used different reinforcement procedures and material rewards. (CM)

The study reported in this document was undertaken to determine the effects of Black Studies on Afro-American five-year-old preschool children, especially the changes which might occur in Afro-American pupils' self-concepts after exposure to Black Studies. In addition, this study sought to measure readiness gain in relation to improved…

Since all of the children represented in this study are now in the first grade, results appear to indicate that gains accrued during the Head Start experience have some degree of stability. The level of significance was well beyond the possibility of the findings having occurred by mere chance. (Authors)

In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…

The widely recognized developmental age differences between boys and girls of the same chronological age is almost universally ignored in educational planning for children in their early school years. (Author)

Reports the results of a study of five-year-olds, which indicate that social relationships are a facilitator of cognitive learning of reading readiness concepts and imaginativeness. Girls in the experimental treatments significantly outperformed the boys. (JD)

THIS EXPERIMENT WAS CONCERNED WITH ASSESSING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SKILL IN SERIATING AND VARIOUS MEASURES YIELDED BY THE METROPOLITAN READING READINESS TEST (RRT). ANOTHER OBJECTIVE WAS TO EVALUATE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SKILL IN SERIATING IS ASSOCIATED WITH SOCIAL CLASS, SEX, AND RACE. THE AUTHORS CONSTRUCTED A SERIATION TEST WITH AN ESTIMATED…

This study was made to find out to what extent kindergartens contribute to school readiness. Ninety children with a mean chronological age of 4.9 were tested with the Metropolitan Readiness Test (MRT), the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities (ITPA), and a Behavior Rating Scale and were retested one year later. During the intervening year,…

The authors investigated whether the constructs measured by the Kindergarten Screening Inventory (KSI) were the same for males and females and for Anglo American, Negro American and Mexican American ethnic groups. Results indicate they are very similar. (Author)

A study examined the relationship between sex differences and the development of reading proficiency, specifically investigating if sex differences related to achievement on measures of silent reading comprehension, sight vocabulary, recognition of vocabulary in context, and use of structural analysis in word recognition taken separately or in…

Reflects on what is to be done if a child is not ready for the standard first grade after a year in kindergarten. Proposes that elementary schools have developmental curricula that allow children to move through an ungraded system at a pace in keeping with their own development. (NH)

Studied children (N=152) who had resided in same school district for grades one through six to determine if birthdate had effect on academic achievement. Results showed in general that children born in later quarters of year performed less well than children born earlier in the year for grades one through four. (Author/ABL)

In order to better establish baseline information on the social, physical, linguistic, and cognitive skills of children entering Maryland kindergartens, the state selected the Work Sampling System (WSS), a component of the Maryland Model for School Readiness, as the early childhood assessment system for evaluating entering kindergartners' skills…