This study evaluated interrelationships among the scores of 51 high school seniors on the Remote Associates Test (RAT), verbal subtests of the Torrance Tests, the Alpha Biographical Inventory (ABI), and IQ. For all subjects, RAT scores, IQ, and the ABI Academic Success score comprised an interrelated "intelligence cluster." With males, none of the…

The booklet describes the Micro-Social Preschool Learning System for children from poor migrant families in Vineland, New Jersey. Of the population of 50,000, approximately 20% is Puerto Rican, 10% Appalachian white, and 7% black. Language objectives of the program are to develop the ability to speak and understand 2,000 basic words in English…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether creativity could be facilitated by a training method based on a salient characteristic of the creative individual, namely, his ability to synthesize elements from two disparate psychological entities: (1) visual experiences; and (2) emotional states. A four-session training program is described in…

Effects of heterogeneous and homogeneous grouping on the psychological functioning of Mexican American preschool children from economically disadvantaged families were investigated in a pilot project at San Jose State College Child Laboratory. Three experimental groups were composed of (1) 9 Mexican American children from low-income families and 9…

This annotated bibliography dealing with the continuing education of women contains 143 indexed and abstracted entries arranged under the following headings: Sex Differences in Mental Ability and Achievement; Social Role Related Interests and Needs; Employment Related Interests and Needs; Programs and Participation; and Women's Education in…

Studied was "the relationship between intellectual achievement responsibility and the variables of self esteem, awareness of upward mobility, intelligence, and academic success." Subjects were 429 black high school students who completed a questionnaire consisting of a biographical inventory, a section on attitudes and aspirations, and…

This study was concerned with the possible relationships between the seventh-grader's ability to write creatively and his reading comprehension his sex, his chronological age, his general intelligence, and his interest in the assigned topic. The creativity scale devised to score the student's creative writing ability included 12 scoring criteria…

Fifty educable retarded children who were determined to be nonconservers by means of three conservation pretests (discontinuous quantity, correspondence, and continuous quantity) were randomly assigned to one of five treatment groups (discontinuous quantity training, correspondence training, continuous quantity training, control, and control…

Communication is urged between theorists of human development and practitioners in early childhood education. Major psychological theories on maturation, child development, child behavior, personality formation, and affective and intellectual development are summarized and their effects on nursery school practices from the 1920's to the present…

Focusing on youth agent positions in the University of Missouri Extension Division, this study tested the relationship between performance, conceptual skills, and role ambiguity (ideal and perceived actual roles). Conceptual skills were measured from word associations by the Remote Associates Test (RAT); youth agent performance ratings were made…

A study of the relationship between certain test scores and probable training and vocational success was made. Examined were three major training areas: power sewing machine, nurse aide, and clerical office work. Six tests were tested for their ability to predict success: the WAIS Revised Beta; Purdue Pegboard; English, California Surveys of…

Results are reported from an investigation of the predictive power of three interviewer social status and five personality factors in a multiple regression analysis with four interviewer performance criteria. Personality factors are found to be more predictive of performance than social status. Clearly, one can improve the probability of hiring…

This brief overview of some aspects of human development aims to enable paraprofessionals (teachers' aides) to work with teachers and children with greater understanding and effectiveness. Aspects discussed include heredity, IQ scores and learning ability assessment, principles of development, and principles of learning. (ED)

Cumulative deficit is an hypothesis concerning the cause of lower mental test scores of groups considered environmentally deprived. It presupposes a progressive decrement in test scores, relative to population norms, as a function of age. Clarification of the theoretical issues and the methodological problems involved in establishing the…

A study of programed instruction sought to establish an attribute by treatment interaction (ATI) between prior familiarity of material and response mode. Two experimental variables (familiarization and response mode) and two subject attributes (sex and I.Q.) were employed. Junior High (JH) and graduate student (GS) were assigned to familiarization…