A survey of deans of colleges of education indicated two major issues: cultivating and promoting progressive ideas among faculty and students, and regret that they had little time for personal pursuits. (JD)

Based upon the assumption that the way teachers perceive others depends upon how they view themselves, some items are proposed for self-study. (JD)

Findings of a study based upon survey data collected from 189 Black high school seniors from a predominantly Black urban school indicate that more than 40 percent of the youngsters ranked above average on the general self-concept of school ability scale, and 54 percent of the remaining students were average. (Author/EB)

The Kinesthetic Aftereffect (KAE) has been criticized as a personality measure because of its poor retest reliability and questionable validity. However, KAE's lower reliabilty can be explained by systematic bias effects occuring in pretesting. When the validity evidence is reevaluated in this light, "questionable" validity disappears.…

Contains a short test of reading comprehension that encourages students to use common sense and powers of perception when studying reading. (RL)

Reports two experiments which examined developmental changes in the patterns of preference for varying degrees of perspective while controlling for the station point used in viewing. Subjects were 28 preschool children (age four years), 23 elementary school students (age six years) and 30 college students from introductory psychology classes. (MP)

Groups of eight- and ten-year-olds and adults visually searched for the presence of a target letter or number in fields of items that were either of the same or a different category (letter or number) than the target. (JMB)

Slides of unfamiliar individuals were rated on six semantic differential scales by 30 high-dogmatic and 30 low-dogmatic Ss (ages 18-22 years) in order to examine the impact of labels (on persons). (Author/PHR)

Notes that the fluent reader needs rapid perception, the ability to use semantic and syntactic clues, and sophisticated comprehension strategies. (MKM)

In order to investigate the role of visual perceptual abilities in the acquisition and comprehension of sign language, four tests of perceptual ability were administered to 120 entering hearing-impaired students and 23 new hearing staff members at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. (Author)

A parent recognizes principals as the educational leaders in their communities and urges them to be aware of the importance of parents in making schools effective learning places. (Author/MLF)

An experiment tests conjectures that right ear advantage (REA) has an auditory origin in competition or interference between acoustically similar stimuli and that feature-sharing effect (FSE) has its origin in assignment of features of phonetically similar stimuli. No effect on the REA for acoustic similarity, and a clear effect of acoustic…

Explores (1) problems of the validity of tests of spatial ability, and (2) problems of the recessive gene influence theory of the origin of sex differences in spatial ability. Studies of cognitive strategies in spatial problem solving are suggested as a way to further investigate recessive gene influence. (Author/RH)

Evaluates the effectiveness of two dissimilar programs, SAPA and the First Talking Alphabet (FTA), upon the acquisition of reading readiness skills of kindergarten pupils. Compares the effects of four different programs (SAPA, FTA, an informal language development program, and a control) on the reading readiness of kindergarten pupils. (GA)

Explores the relationship between a set of science-related attitudinal outcomes and student perceptions of the classroom learning environment. The attitudinal outcomes investigated were student attitude to four sources of information: experiments, experts, books, and teachers. (Author/GA)