Developed during a 1968 summer institute for assisting educators of Evanston, Illinois school District 65 to develop some common understandings about crucial integration issues, this set of instructional materials on "Power to Black Power" forms one of a series of teacher "Unipacs." The specific purpose of this Unipac is to…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of pretesting results on the future learning behavior of graduate students of a university. The teaching technique used was pretesting to assess student entry behavior. Considered in the study was the effect on student behavior of the instructor informing the class they had failed to meet the…

The author examines preservice teacher attitudes toward educational evaluation in six areas and measures gains in the value assigned to these areas after a required educational measurement and evaluation course. (MJB)

When subjects are instructed to reinstate their original state of mind and write the same stories, or not to worry about their stories, test-retest reliability of need for power is substantially higher than the levels usually found for Thematic Apperception Test motives and approaches levels found with objective personality tests. (Author)

This paper investigated three kinds of changes that could occur when a child learns to program in Logo. Novice programmers from fourth grade classes were given three sessions of Logo instruction. Results provided some preliminary evidence that productive learning of a programming language involves a chain of cognitive changes. (Author/LMO)

Available approaches for determing significant differences between various groups are considered for use when the homogeneity of slopes precludes standard analysis of covariance. The advantages and statistical procedures for relating to a reference group are presented and criteria are suggested for choosing the best groups. (Author)

As part of a larger experiment to study computer-based methods of teaching Othello, 24 subjects who had never played the game were pretested with visual-spatial tests. After 16 games of Othello, subjects were tested on knowledge of the game. Correlations of pretest and posttest scores were computed. (LMO)

Studies 20 teachers (16 women, four men) in pre-, post-, and follow-up testing of Teacher Effectiveness Training (TET) for active listening skills and I-message skills. (Editor/RK)

An action research project implemented musical strategies to affect and enhance student recall and memory. The target population was three suburban elementary schools near a major midwestern city: (1) a kindergarten classroom contained 32-38 students; (2) a second grade classroom contained 23 students and five Individualized Education Program…

Do males and females differ as to performance in a graduate-level research class? To investigate this question, the study compared test scores before and after a graduate-level advanced research class, by sex. The six classes that were the focus of this study were offered in the fall 2001, spring and fall 2002 and 2003, and spring 2004 terms under…

The purpose of this study is to contribute to research regarding the Application of Cognitive Functions Scale (ACFS; C. Lidz and R. Jepsen, 1997), a newly developed dynamic assessment approach for the assessment of preschool children. The ACFS assesses the ability of children to apply their cognitive functions in areas that are related to the…

This is the second of two articles on Modern Management Dynamics. The purpose of this program and the developmental research done on it was to evolve a method of determining how much a trainee learns from a training program and how the trainer can improve his program through pre-test and post-evaluation. (DS)

The authors conducted a study to determine the major area of difficulties as perceived by student teachers in student teaching programs. (Author/RK)

The present research was designed to minimize the possibility for new learning contained in earlier studies and to focus primarily upon facilitating effects. (Author)