Forty-eight special class educable mentally retarded (EMR) students, 9 to 12 years of age, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds were examined to determine effects of communication training and learning potential (LP) training on tasks in the Communication Test Battery (CTB) and on scores in the Raven Progressive Matrices (RPM). The Ss were…

An entire elementary school system with 60 percent white and 40 percent black children was given several ability tests administered by 12 white and eight black examiners. The tests measured verbal and nonverbal IQ, perceptual-motor cognitive development, "speed and persistence" under neutral and motivating instructions, listening attention, and…

The purpose of this study was to determine if selected mental, mathematical, reading, and personality assessments of sixth-grade pupils could predict high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving. The subjects were 112 sixth graders, 56 classified as high achievers in mathematical verbal problem solving and 56 classified as low achievers…

The study was based on a year's work with Crow Indian children, grades 1-4, at Pryor, Montana. Five tests were given and evaluated: the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, the Metropolitan Achievement Tests, the Gesell Developmental Examination, the Lowenfeld Mosaic, and 3 selected tasks from Piaget. The 21 pupils used for this study were broken…

This study was undertaken to investigate approaches fifth grade children of similar mental ability follow when writing narrative compositions, to identify procedures unique to good and poor writers, and to observe sex differences relative to quality of written expression and ability to verbalize concerning the writing process. A sample of 230…

An investigation was made to determine (1) if different reading comprehension subtests measure the same facets of comprehension, (2) what proportion of variance is accounted for in scores if verbal comprehension is partialed out, and (3) how highly group intelligence test scores correlate with comprehension tests which require immediate recall and…

ARIS is an artificial intelligence system which uses the English language to learn, understand, and communicate. The system attempts to simulate the psychoneurological processes which enable man to communicate verbally. It uses a modified stratificational grammar model and is being programed in PL/1 (a programing language) for an IBM 360/67…

SCHOLAR is a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system which is capable of true man-computer dialog. Using a subset of English, the system is capable of generating questions, answering questions, analyzing responses, and producing subsequent actions. SCHOLAR has a data base that is a complex but well defined information structure in the form of a…

A relational data system (RDS) is one that has the capability not only to retrieve specific facts but also the ability to deduce facts that are implicit rather than explicit in the data base. The study investigated the application of RDS technology to intelligence data processing. RDS technology and the nature of intelligence data processing are…

In this analysis of the structure of the faculty characterizations of students, the same data was used as in the initial study. An oblique solution was obtained by applying the Promax method of Hendrickson and White to the previous Equamax solution. This yielded 18 factors. From intercorrelations among the factor axes, a principal axes procedure…

The purpose of this study was to attempt to identify those factors that influence a high school student's success on the Advanced Placement (AP) Examinations by examining and comparing the variables contained in the high school records of former AP participants. A total of 248 high school students participated in the research. The criterion for…

Fourth through sixth grade children were given two kinds of creativity measures--divergent measures in which the child named all the ideas he could that met a simple requirement, and convergent measures, adaptations of Mednick's Remote Associates Test, in which he attempted to find one word which was associatively related to each of three others.…

The increasing emphasis on the affective domain in the teaching-learning situation has not produced a significant body of research on the development of self concept among Spanish-speaking--particularly Puerto Rican--students. This study investigated the relationship of the self-concept of Puerto Rican pupils with achievement, IQ, ethnic group…

All discussions of what might have produced particular configurations of family structure among low-income blacks (or whites) have generally assumed an essential link between family structure and "pathology." This monograph is an attempt to provide some of the lacking theoretical structure and to evaluate more of the necessary empirical evidence…

This annotated bibliography on language and reading instruction of Spanish-speaking children is divided into six major categories. The introductory section presents fundamental issues, broad concepts, basic understandings, and related areas that are of importance to an understanding of the major topic. Section 2, "Measuring and Appraising…