To ascertain whether paradigmatic performance on a word association test administered at the end of kindergarten is an effective predictor of reading achievement, 37 children were tested on the Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic Assessment (SPA) at the end of their kindergarten year. At the end of their first grade year, the children were administered a…

This study of the foreign language requirements of U.S. corporations doing business abroad examines characteristics of corporate language training programs and policies with regard both to U.S. national employees going outside the United States to work and to non-U.S. national employees, generally working in their own countries. The role of…

Social processes in desegregated schools are much more complicated than is generally thought. Data from three desegregated schools are used to highlight the operation of two social processes which have an impact on the interracial behavior of students. One process stems from an academic status ordering, the other comes from power relations in the…

A program for early identification of children who are a high risk for failure in a primary French immersion program was undertaken in Ontario, Canada. As the last year of a three-year project, the investigation was designed to identify a set of variables predictive of success or failure in the primary program. The predictive validity of measures…

The effectiveness of a basic skills program instituted in fall 1979 at the University of New Mexico is discussed. Freshmen falling below specified American College Testing program cut-off levels were placed in developmental courses that they had to complete successfully before being eligible to enroll in freshman classes in the area of their…

This study shows that generally-held sexist attitudes may be partially responsible for the imbalance between girls and boys at the tertiary level in mathematics. In the first chapter, six criteria are listed for checking to see whether there is sexism. Chapter two reviews selected literature where research findings indicate that girls tend to…

This study investigated the effects of certain types of science experiences ("hands-on" versus "non-hands-on") on the development of selected cognitive abilities as inferred by performance on Piagetian-type tasks. Thirty-six students from first, third, and fifth grades were randomly chosen as subjects. Eighteen of the students from each grade…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE AN ADMINISTRATIVELY PRACTICAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM FOR INTELLECTUALLY GIFTED PUPILS IN SPARSELY POPULATED AREAS. THREE GROUPS OF APPROXIMATELY 60 FIFTH-GRADE SUBJECTS EACH WERE IDENTIFIED FOR THE STUDY. ONE GROUP (EXPERIMENTAL) WAS TRANSPORTED DAILY TO A CENTRAL LOCATION FOR AN 8-WEEK SUMMER SESSION,…

A SURVEY WAS MADE IN 1961 OF ALL (APPROXIMATELY 45,000) GRADUATING SENIORS IN MINNESOTA HIGH SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO LEARN OF TRENDS IN POST-HIGH SCHOOL PLANNING. THE SURVEY CONSISTED OF AN APTITUDE TEST, ACHIEVEMENT RECORDS, AND A QUESTIONNAIRE ENTITLED "AFTER HIGH SCHOOL--WHAT." IN 1962, A SAMPLE OF STUDENTS WAS SELECTED TO…

SEVERAL EXPERIMENTS ON THE CONCEPTUAL BEHAVIOR OF LOWER AND MIDDLE CLASS CHILDREN ARE DESCRIBED IN AN EFFORT TO CLARIFY AN APPARENT DISCREPANCY BETWEEN PREVIOUS LABORATORY FINDINGS AND OBSERVED CLASSROOM PERFORMANCE. IN THE FIRST EXPERIMENT, INDUCTIVE CONCEPT LEARNING WAS INVESTIGATED AS A FUNCTION OF SOCIAL CLASS MEMBERSHIP AND PRIOR EXPERIENCE.…

IN THIS SUMMARY OF 22 RESEARCH REPORTS, THE DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF CRITERION INSTRUMENTS TO ASSESS THE TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY OF U.S. NAVY AERONAUTICAL SUPPORT PERSONNEL ARE DISCUSSED. THE STUDIES, SUMMARIZED IN TERMS OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL AND LOGICAL INTERRELATIONSHIPS INVOLVED, DEAL WITH PRELIMINARY AND FINAL FORMS OF TECHNICAL BEHAVIOR…

TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE DESIGNED TO MEASURE INTERACTION EFFECTS OF INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN COLLEGE STUDENTS (MEASURED BY ATTITUDE, INTEREST, AND ABILITY TESTS), AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION VARIABLES (RESPONSE MODE, FEEDBACK, AND PREFERENCE FOR RESPONSE MODE). IN EXPERIMENT I, SUBJECTS NUMBERED OVER 350 COLLEGE FRESHMEN ENROLLED IN TWO SECTIONS OF…

COMPILED FOR CONVENIENT REFERENCE ARE 4,176 TITLES IN THE FIELD OF CREATIVITY AND RELATED AREAS. INCLUDED ARE DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED FROM 1744 TO DECEMBER 1964, AS WELL AS MANY UNPUBLISHED THESES, DISSERTATIONS AND SPEECHES. ALSO INCLUDED ARE FRENCH, ITALIAN, AND RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS ALONG WITH THEIR RESPECTIVE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS, WHENEVER AVAILABLE.…

TWO PILOT STUDIES OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARENT CHARACTERISTICS AND THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF THEIR CHILDREN ARE REPORTED. THE FIRST STUDY COMPARED THE BEHAVIOR OF MOTHERS OF HIGH AND LOW VERBAL GIRLS IN TWO SEMISTRUCTURED INTERACTION SITUATIONS. TEN HIGH VERBAL AND 10 LOW VERBAL GIRLS WERE SELECTED FOR STUDY ON THE BASIS OF SCORES ON THE…

PROJECT ABLE IS AN EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY AND TO ENCOURAGE POTENTIALLY ABLE PUPILS FROM CULTURALLY DEPRIVED OR LOW SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS TO COMPLETE APPROPRIATE PROGRAMS OF SECONDARY EDUCATION. STUDENTS FROM THE SEVENTH AND TWELFTH GRADES FROM CULTURALLY POOR OR UNHAPPY HOMES WERE SELECTED BY PRINCIPALS AND FACULTIES OF…