Describes the Pittsburgh Public School System's Division of Computer Services established in 1968 to develop computer applications to provide reliable, timely, and accurate information for all phases of the school system. (Author)

The results fail to support the hypothesis that intersensory integration is the sole or even the primary developmental skill accounting for matching task improvement with increasing age. The hypothesis that retarded readers fail to develop skills in intersensory integration is also not supported. (Authors)

Results of this study reinforce Kagan's postulation of reflection-impulsivity as a dimension of cognitive style which influences performance on a wide variety of reading-like tasks. (Authors)

Article assesses the value of prescribing two commonly used tranquilizers in relieving students of examination anxiety. (Author/RK)

Results show that the retarded group was significantly more cooperative than the nonretarded group, and the 6-7 year retarded group was more cooperative than the 11-12-year retarded group. (Authors/CB)

Author suggests that the challenges to pupil personnel services are increasing and changing, and believes services have to understand the direction of those challenges. (Author)

Considers the implications of administrative accountability, the need for self-evaluation, and the desire to determine relationships between processes used and outcomes produced for recent approaches to collecting evaluation data. (Author/EA)

This study was conducted in an attempt to ascertain attitudinal factors associated with the extent to which an Educational Improvement Center was able to stimulate local initiative and innovation. (Author/RK)

One of a series of studies of how children come to name their feelings. For Parts I and III see PS 501 987 and PS 502 002. (MB)

It was concluded that previous explanations of visual exploration or stimulus preference have been oversimplified, and studies on the whole have failed to take into account a crucial interaction between sex and age variables. (Authors)

Students in classes using a self-instructional unit on meteorology and climatology which provided research data from which generalizations could be drawn increased their critical thinking skills more than groups using conventional earth science texts but did not differ significantly in performance on an achievement test. (AL)

The findings of this study indicate that the programed and the traditional method of teaching are equally successful in developing listening skills. (CK)

Results of the study generally support the position that moral ideology is related to identity status. (Authors)

Egocentric children were shown to have inadequate social schema to understand the adult meaning of conformity and independence. (Author)