The effects of relaxation exercises on orthography performance in language arts education of fifth to seventh graders were experimentally tested. Participants were 399 basic secondary school students and their language arts teachers from the Hauptschule, a German type of secondary education covering grades five to nine that leads to a basic…

Intelligence testing is an important part of any individualized education plan; however, a verbal test measure may not be appropriate for the child with a physical disability, visual impairment, and/or the inability to speak. A child with a physical disability may not be able to point accurately or build a tower with blocks; a child with a visual…

A 36-ITEM SENTENCE-COMPLETION FORM REQUIRING SINGLE WORD RESPONSES WAS ADMINISTERED TO 2,321 COLLEGE FRESHMEN TO OBTAIN NORMATIVE DATA. THE 616 DIFFERENT RESPONSE WORDS USED BY MORE THAN ONE PERCENT OF THE SAMPLE WERE INCORPORATED INTO A COMPUTER PROGRAM WRITTEN FOR A MODIFIED IBM 1401 COMPUTER WITH TYPEWRITER TERMINALS DESIGNED FOR…

The present study highlights the effectiveness of Hybrid-Learning in enhancing communicative skill in English among the Trainees of Bachelor of education of School of Distance Education, Bharathiar University,Coimbatore. Hybrid learning refers to mixing of different learning methods or mixing two more methods for teaching learning process. It…

This article reports on 2 studies with kindergarten and first-grade children from a low-achieving elementary school that provided vocabulary instruction by the students' regular classroom teacher of sophisticated words (advanced vocabulary words) from children's trade books that are typically read aloud. Study 1 compared the number of…

Article contains a new intelligence test developed for use by teachers and administrators who are or will be working with Spanish-speaking pupils in the Texas Rio Grande Valley. (Editor/GB)

First- and second-order factor analyses were conducted, using the LISREL model, on correlation matrices among item parcels of verbal items of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. Focus was on determining whether statistical dependence among item scores can be explained by a single ability dimension. Results suggest future research possibilities related…

In a study to identify brief forms of the Multidimensional Aptitude Battery (MAB), 30 samples of approximately 250 respondents each were drawn from a population of 4,928 adolescents to evaluate by replicated multivariate regression analyses the best combinations of scales for predicting MAB total scores. MAB subscales measuring Comprehension,…

Presents a summary outline of an approach to oral testing used in the past two years with groups of students completing Fernand Marty's "Active French." (Author/PP)

Subjects preinformed or not preinformed of reinforcement contingencies interacted with high- or low-esteemed experimenters in a Taffel verbal conditioning situation. Tedeschi's SEV theory of social influence correctly predicted that non-preinformed subjects should emit more critical responses to the more esteemed than to the less esteemed…

Confidence intervals for the 80, 85, 90, and 95 percent levels of confidence are presented for the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised (PPVT-R) using the estimated true score and obtained score based methods. Separate tables are provided for ages 2-1/2 to 18 and ages 19 and above. (Author/VW)

Many students are not accepted in to certain colleges and universities because of low SAT scores. Loren Meierding has written Ace the Verbal on the SAT to help students with minimal preparation do well by improving their vocabulary and use better techniques for finding the answers to the questions. This book provides strategies needed to score…

The intercorrelations among the 12 subtests of the WISC-R were analyzed for each of the 11 age groups in the standardization sample. Clusters were found that corresponded to the verbal and performance Scales. There was also some evidence of a third group of subtests, drawn from both scales. (Author/BW)