Rational, defensible guidelines for use in identifying learning disabled children would assist in determining the most efficient use of diagnostic expertise, in specifying learning disabled populations for research purposes, and in assuring equity in the provision of diagnostic and remedial services. One commonly accepted symptom of learning…

The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a model of critical thinking ontogeny at the undergraduate levels in a four-year college. Critical thinking ability was considered relative to mental ability, academic performance, and academic preparation for college. Students (N=607) in many disciplinary areas took a battery of tests to…

The relative effectiveness of several testing instruments in predicting the reading achievement of Puerto Rican first graders was investigated in this dissertation. One hundred seventy-four students were tested by the "Reading Readiness Test (Prueba de Apresto)," the "Collective Puerto Rican Test of Mental Capacity (Prueba Colectiva de Capacidad…

The self-concept of 20 educable mentally retarded (EMR) junior high school boys in special classes was compared to that of 20 non-EMR junior high school boys in regular classes. Two self-concept scales (the Piers-Harris Children's Self Concept Scale and the "How I See Myself" Scale by I. Gordon) were used as measurement instruments. Also collected…

The annotated bibliography on creativity contains approximately 150 abstracts and associated indexing information for documents published from 1961 to 1973 and selected from the computer files of the Council for Exceptional Children's Information Services and the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC). It is explained that titles were…

When a grammar is expressed in augmented transition network (ATN) form, the problem of detecting syntactic ambuguity reduces to finding all possible paths through the ATNs. Each successfully terminating path through the ATN generates an acceptable parsing of the input string. Two ATN forms, minimal-node and pseudo-tree, are described along with…

The purpose of this study was to determine relationships among verbal and nonverbal creative thinking, literal reading comprehension, intelligence, and creative oral response to a literature stimulus. The subjects were 74 black fourth grade boys and girls in three classrooms of an inner-city school. The Minnesota Tests of Creative Thinking,…

To learn if differences in age, intelligence, and sex account for differences in children's memory of TV commercials and "degree of insistence" (DI) after viewing them, 54 gifted, 71 normal, and 53 educable mentally retarded children (of both sexes, 7-13 years) were questioned. The mediating influence of the three independent variables on DI was…

This paper describes an intensive educational program for mother-infant pairs from disadvantaged populations. The program had three aims: (1) to help the mothers understand that the way they interact with their infants makes an important difference in the child's development; (2) to encourage and teach mothers to respond to infant vocalizing and…

One of a series of reports evaluating the Durham Education Improvement Program, this study concentrates on assessing the influence of age-of-entry on subsequent changes in performance on intelligence tests. Changes in intelligence quotient scores for two age-at-entry groups (3-, 4-, 5-year-olds combined and 6-year-olds) were correlated after one…

To provide empirical data from which inferences could be made about the definition of critical reading and also the relationship between critical reading and critical thinking were the main objectives of this study. The Reading Comprehension Test; the Test of Critical Thinking, Form G; the Nelson-Denny Reading Test, Form A; and the Lorge-Thorndike…

This study examined the responses of 10th-grade students of low, average, and high abilities to two levels of short stories: the complex, or adult, story and the less complex, or adolescent story. Students read four pairs of short stories and wrote their immediate and delayed responses to tests containing two open-ended questions and 10 objective…

To gather data on the implications of the proposition that intellectual ability should be conceived as multidimensional, 19 different measures, all of which have been employed as selection criteria for programs for the gifted, were used as a basis for selecting 5 students from 2 fifth-grade classes (N=49) for inclusion in a hypothetical program…

The relative difficulty levels of Stanford-Binet items between the ages of four and six among prekindergarten Head Start children were studied. A comparison sample of prekindergarten white middle class children was included to evaluate the age norms on a culturally typical sample of children and to assess performance on the Binet as it might…

This Handbook has been prepared to serve as a guide to those attending the 45th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, and is also intended as a permanent record of the papers presented at the meeting. Contents include the official program, abstracts of the 65 papers scheduled for the regular sessions, and abstracts of the papers…