Shares Cornell University's efforts to work with faculty on the problem of reports that anticipate departmental and faculty data needed during the year. (MS)

Use of a daily report card covering academic and social behavior resulted in decreased inappropriate verbalizations by a junior high school learning disabled girl. Changing the criteria for earning bonus points had mixed results. (Author/DB)

Good grades on a report card do not necessarily mean the material has been comprehended. This article examines the relative worth of grades; extra credit assignments; categorizing students into A, B, or C boxes; and the role of parental pressures for higher grades. Grading systems should be subordinate to true learning motivation. (MLH)

Investigates the circumstances under which answer changing is beneficial or detrimental to test performance. Analyzes the success of answer changing in relation to the reasons offered for changing. Concludes that students who reported guessing as their reason for changing answers were not nearly as likely to benefit from changing as were students…

Discusses logical errors, such as converse reasoning, that are made by students in mathematics and science courses. States that many students apply incorrect forms of reasoning to concrete mathematical problems. Concludes that material should be taught as concretely as possible, and that mathematics students should be made aware of reasoning…

Investigated were the effects of spatial training on calculus achievement, spatial visualization ability, and the use of visualization in solving problems on solids of revolution. Sex differences were found favoring women in calculus achievement and men in spatial visualization ability. (MNS)

Government-appointed education commission reports are seriously flawed and have resulted in misleading impressions that significant reforms have occurred as a result of commission efforts. The commission approach to educational change and improvement is compellingly reasonable but deceptively simplistic and general. (Author/CB)

Women from five Canadian universities overestimated their final grades less often and underestimated them more often than men did. No sex-related difference was found in level of confidence to complete the bachelor's program, but women expressed less confidence in their ability to obtain the doctorate. (MNS)

This article discusses the role of the auditor and describes a seven-stage training audit model currently being employed by a multinational United Kingdom bank. Stages include familiarization, auditing the client, auditing the program, auditing the program organizer, auditing the consumer, presenting the report, and tasking action agencies. (CT)

Review of existing research on the general cognitive outcomes of Logo training concludes there is little data-based or empirical evidence on the effects of teaching Logo to children. It is suggested that current research on Logo should be more directly tied to outcomes related to learning a structured computer language. (MBR)

Studies the fate of scientific observations as they pass from original reports intended for scientific peers into popular accounts aimed at a general audience. (FL)

Presents highlights from a National Academy of Sciences conference report which indicates that universities must streamline administrative procedures and pool resources to alleviate budget-cutting woes. Includes a list of questions (focusing on major issues) that conference participants could not immediately answer. (JN)

Suggests that technical writing teachers can use the "classics" of scientific literature to discuss science as rhetoric, effectively challenging major assumptions concerning the objectivity of science. Explores several sources on the relationship of the philosophy, history, and sociology of science to technical writing and rhetoric and how to…

Presents report to Vice President for Academic Affairs of Drexel University which formed the basis for negotiating an agreement with Apple Corporation to provide required microcomputers for incoming freshmen. Microcomputer Selection Committee constitution and charge, student ownership goals, requirements and specifications for the microcomputers,…

Comments on how reading research studies sometimes work their effects in wonderous ways. Illustrates this in humorous reviews of several recent research reports. (HOD)