This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses planning and using interactive word walls to support science and reading instruction. Many classrooms have word walls displaying vocabulary that students have learned in class. Word walls serve as visual scaffolds to support instruction. To…

Purpose: To construct a table for upper and lower limits of the 95% critical range for changes in word recognition scores obtained with monosyllabic word lists (of lengths 10, 25, 50, and 100 words) using newly available methods. Although such a table has been available for nearly 30 years (A. R. Thornton & M. J. M. Raffin, 1978), the earlier…

Two experiments investigated the effect of homograph stimuli in paired-associate transfer paradigms. (Editor)

Four experiments examined the effects of various instructions on the rate of false recognitions of synonyms, antonyms, nonsemantic associates, and homonyms. (Editor)

Study involved the presentation of three lists of consistent words and three lists of inconsistent words to first graders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of cues emphasized (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and consistency (high, low) on the number of words learned. (Author)

A learning-to-learn approach was taken in the present study in an attempt to draw the subjects' attention to the associative relations among items and to examine whether the presentation of four functionally equivalent interitem lists would result in the subjects' using a higher cognitive strategy. (Author/RK)

Described a computer program, designed to allow a totally objective, associationally sensible, and reasonably efficient method for selecting the best word subset for analysis within the framework of WORDS, which recognoized and analyzed major content themes in natural language. (Author/RK)

Tulving and Thomas have concluded that nonrecognizable words are recallable and therefore that generation-recognition theory is denied. The primary purpose of this article is to argue that they have not demonstrated recognition failure of recallable words. (Author/RK)

The present research involved the free-recall transfer paradigm where some subjects have had prior experience with a part of the test list while others have not. (Author)

The purpose of this experiment was to test a proposal by Paivio (1971) that visual memory images are specialized for parallel or spatiol processing, whereas verbal memory codes are specialized for sequential or temporal processing. (Author)

This experiment tested the hypothesis that attenuation of attention would be a direct function of lag and whether certain manipulations within the context of a self-paced study procedure would allow for an interpretation of the superior recall of distributed versus massed items by way of that hypothesis. (Author/RK)

The purpose of the present experiment was to investigate more thoroughly the relative importance of consistencies of input as compared with output order in determining organization in the multitrial free recall of lists of maximally unrelated words. (Author)

Word government means some words are habitually used with certain constructions, which in a sense they control or govern. Because governing words are troublesome--high usage words which have acquired many meanings and usages--tabulating such words and documenting their use pay rich dividends in text processing applications. (12 references)…