Two studies of 100 Japanese second graders suggest that linguistic memory skills may contribute to successful acquisition of all orthographies, whereas the importance of nonlinguistic memory skills can vary. (Author/CL)

The effect of social facilitation, particularly the impact of perceived evaluation and relative competence of handicapped learners, was tested for efficacy in predicting 26 learning disabled elementary children's oral reading performance. Results revealed that children who read with similar-ability peers performed significantly better than with…

Results of analysis of correlations collected by Cookson, following Eysenck and Cookson's study of personality and ability in young people, confirm the finding from previous Cattellian test data that the more intelligent children decline in relative extraversion scores and cast doubt on Eysenck's suggestion that introverts gradually show higher…

Author stressed the point that music educators must pay attention to the oft neglected percussionist and make certain he has a fulfilling education and experience with music. (Author/RK)

Study of language used in multiple choice test showed that verbal complexity of questions had little or no effect on their actual difficulty; if a student knows the content, he can also read well enough to understand the test item. (SP)

Discusses the problems that arise when elementary school students try to read words that are common in their speech. (RB)

Results showed that in the fourth grade, boys' reading preferences were different from those of girls. Boys placed sports on the top and poetry on the bottom of the list of reading preferences, while girls reported mystery as the most preferred and sports as the least preferred. (Author)

Part of a four-article report on "Learning in Black Colleges."

Elaborative rehearsal strategies rather than nonelaborative rehearsal strategies (repetition only) discriminated between the two groups of fifth and sixth graders. The organizational ability represented in elaborative rehearsal strategies was the hypothesized mechanism responsible for the better long-term memory and total recall observed in…

Reports that teachers' perceptions of children's reading ability are more closely related to how they view the children's behavior in class than to actual reading performance as measured by tests. (Author/FL)

Reviews recent studies dealing with the question of whether students' dialects interfere with their ability to read. Suggests three specific actions that educators concerned with reading instruction might take in order to enhance the quality of reading instruction for students with nonstandard dialects. (FL)

Describes a research study in which good readers were able to predict more successfully the outcomes of both concrete and abstract stories than were poor readers. (MKM)