Investigates the possibility of repeated tests to demonstrate competency. Three competency tasks were administered to 89 college students. Students failing to demonstrate competency on one or more tasks on an initial test were retested only on those tasks. All students later were given a delayed retest. (HM)

Examines a model for identifying homogeneous subgroups within the larger heterogeneous group found in an introductory psychology course. In order to increase the number of individuals able to succeed within a class, teachers must direct their attention toward the underlying processes of task performance and the characteristic ways in which…

The Matching Familiar Figures Test and the Auditory Impulsivity Task were administered to 81 fourth-grade students. Fifty-five percent of the students maintained classifications as reflective, impulsive, fast-accurate, or slow-inaccurate across the two modalities, indicating that the two tasks measured different abilities. The authors suggest that…

A token and social reinforcement system was used with an 8-year-old special education student to increase on-task behavior during reading and mathematics (SBH)

Profile analyses indicated significantly different patterns of classroom behavior for differing self-concept levels. The highest self-concept group showed the greatest percentage of task-oriented behaviors; the lowest self-concept group had the largest percentage of nondirected behaviors. (GDC)

Evidence is provided for gradual age (and, seemingly, cognitive developmental) changes in the acquisition of complex problem solving strategies. Differential performance as a function of exposure to a child-model exhibiting the best strategy also suggests the role of learning in strategy acquisition. (Author/MV)

A review of literature including a summary of pertinent studies on middle-aged and older workers in five broad categories: physical capacity, learning ability, job performance, performance in training, and worker attitudes. (ABM)

Studied factors that may explain why low socioeconomic status children have higher self-concepts than high socioeconomic status children. When either the experimenter's negative evaluation or a high standard for judging student work elicited children's negative self-evaluations, self-concepts of low socioeconomic status children were enhanced. (RL)

An experimental and control group of thirty-two four and five year-old children received identical quantitative tasks except for the language used. Results showed that children's difficulties with simple arithmetic tasks were not purely linguistic. The conclusion supports the suggestion that the development of language is intertwined with…

Investigated auditory word discrimination skills in children diagnosed as having minimal brain dysfunction (MBD) because a lack of auditory discrimination skill seems relevant to learning deficiency in language acquisition, a typical sign of MBD. (Editor/RK)

The study compared two methods of task presentation which differed primarily in terms of sequence characteristics. Sixty 4th graders were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups and taught concepts of mathematical symmetry for three days. A criterion measure was administered on the fourth day to assess initial learning and again six weeks…

This research attempts to determine whether Behavioral Observation Scales (BOS) could be improved by developing them through quantitative methods. The underlying assumption was that developing composite scales with greater internal consistency might improve their generalizability as evidenced by the cross-validation coefficients of scales based on…

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The study compared the performance of severe and mild learning disabled children to normal children on a problem-solving task. The three types of children were assessed on the Matching Familiar Figures task. Results indicated that on the MFF, LD children, as a group, were more impulsive than normal children. (Author)

Tasks selected as being representative in three government offices are studies to determine the illumination required to provide maximum practical speed and accuracy. (Author/MF)