The Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) was administered to over 200 third graders to investigate the effects of using consumable test booklets versus non-consumable booklets which require a separate answer sheet. It was hypothesized that there would be no significant differences in CTBS scores between students using consumable booklets and…

The relationships of children's perceptions of the causes of academic success or failure to achievement behavior and to reading ability were examined using two measures: Crandall's Intellectual Achievement Responsibility Scale (IAR), and a measure of students' causal attributions relating to performance of a single, specific task. Subjects were…

SCHOOL TO COLLEGE--OPPORTUNITIES FOR POST SECONDARY EDUCATION (SCOPE), IS A SIX-YEAR PROJECT WHICH SEEKS TO DISCOVER DECISION-MAKING PATTERNS AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. THIS REPORT ON MASSACHUSETTS, THE SECOND OF THE SERIES, GIVES MEANS, PERCENTILE RANKS, STANDARD DEVIATIONS, AND DISTRIBUTIONS ON THE VERBAL ABILITY TEST, MATH ABILITY TEST,…

THIS STUDY ATTEMPTS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT PATH ANALYSIS IS A VALUABLE TOOL FOR INTERPRETING CORRELATIONS IN A CAUSAL SENSE. PATH ANALYSIS IS APPLIED TO A NONEXPERIMENTAL, PANEL SURVEY IN AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE MORE SELECTIVE OR LESS SELECTIVE COLLEGES HAD A DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT ON THE EDUCATIONAL PLANS OF THEIR STUDENTS. THE PROBLEM IS TO…

A MODEL OF INQUIRY WAS DESIGNED AND A TEST WAS DEVELOPED TO SAMPLE INQUIRY BEHAVIORS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PROFICIENCY ON THIS TEST AND SELECTED STUDENT BEHAVIORS AND ABILITIES WERE ANALYZED. THE TEST WAS DEVELOPED TO ASSESS INQUIRY BEHAVIORS OF SEARCHING, DATA PROCESSING, VERIFYING, DISCOVERING, ASSIMILATING, AND…

THE MOTIVATING CONCEPT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SYLLABUS WAS THAT THE INCREASING COMPLEXITY OF THE EDUCATIONAL TASK DEMANDS THAT WE MAKE SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THOSE WHO LEARN MORE RAPIDLY AND WHO CAN PROGRESS THROUGH THE CURRICULAR PROGRAM AT A GREATER SPEED. THESE STUDENTS SHOULD BE CHALLENGED THROUGH THE USE OF A VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND…

THE COURSE IS GEARED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF STUDENTS ENTERING SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL WITH A MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT LEVEL BELOW SIXTH GRADE. SINCE TWO PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF SERIOUS DEFICIENCIES IN ARITHMETIC ARE A LACK OF UNDERSTANDING OF THE DECIMAL SYSTEM OF NOTATION AND A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF THE BASIC FUNDAMENTALS OF ARITHMETIC, BASIC CONCEPTS MUST BE…

A study was conducted to test the proposition that the act of oral reading would be significantly different between competent and incompetent writers and the corollary proposition that the act of oral reading closely approximates the act of writing. A writing sample was devised that included three major features: all the common marks of…

The varying perspectives of self, as determined by distinct or discrete situations and individual perceptions within a multitrait-multimethod framework, were tested, and evidence for the validity of the measures was found. Six hundred ninety-eight students in grades 1-12 were randomly selected from suburban classrooms in the Northeast and…

This is one of a series of reports summarizing the results of the second mathematics assessment conducted by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Nine, 13- and 17-year-olds were assessed during the 1977-78 school year. The assessment measured achievement in various content areas at four levels of cognitive processes (knowledge,…

The Nelson-Denny Reading Test was administered to 525 community college students in English courses to determine the relationship between reading test scores, success in English courses, and overall grade point average (GPA) and to examine how expectancy charts could be used to predict which students were likely to experience academic difficulty.…

Homework assignments are viewed as a kind of resource allocation which should be included in assessing a school's educational resources. Three questions are addressed in this study: average time allocations for student exposure to learning resources in class, through homework, and in total; extent of the variations in these averages; and…

Thirteen research reports related to mathematics education are abstracted and analyzed. Four of the reports deal with learning or thought processes, two each with concept formation, sex differences, teacher effects and student abilities, and one report deals with anxiety. An editor's note lists various other sources of reviews of research in…

The fifth report required by the Maryland Educational Accountability Act contains information about goals for Maryland public education and progress toward those goals. The first section explains accountability, the Maryland Accountability Act, and limitations of current instruments for measuring learning progress. The central purpose of the…

Currently, the reliance on intelligence tests as the primary criterion for the placement of children in school programs has been challenged. Much of the controversy focuses on the insensitivity of these instruments to individual cognitive styles for different subgroups of children. While the issue of whether intelligence tests measure skill…