COMMENTS is a computer program written in Basic language for an IBM PC and a file which stores observations and questions and prints teacher comments on a personalized comment sheet produced for each student paper, mostly by using three-letter codes. To use the program, the teacher first reads the student paper, noting spelling errors and needed…

Voice can be considered as the writer's attitude toward the reader (the rhetorical function) and the writer's attitude toward the subject or object being written about (the epistemic function). Voice is expressed by such things as word choice, rhythm, sound, and juxtaposition of words and sentences. Moreover, the writer's attitude toward the…

Outlined in this paper are the plans for three additional pilot studies to be conducted in Denmark as part of the interdisciplinary Turko-Danish Fairytale Project. The project is concerned with the collective versus the individual nature of reader response to literature and the three pilot studies are: introspection studies during the reading,…

The purpose of this paper is to increase teachers' understanding of children's conceptualizations of death to enable them to respond to the symptoms of grief in both early and middle childhood. John Bowlby's theoretical framework of childhood mourning is elaborated, and research on teachers' facilitation of children's grief is briefly noted. The…

Effects of three variables (learner, task, and treatment characteristics) on subject performance in two basic learning paradigms (Visual discrimination or "matching" and paired-associate tasks) were studied. (Author/RC)

Investigated were the effects of stimulus complexity on habituation of the skin conductance response component of the orienting responses in 16 nonretarded and retarded male adults. (Author)

The basic aim of this exploratory study was to investigate the effects of examiner (or teacher) expectancy on performance over perception tasks related to the visual arts. (Author)

Discussed how the teacher of child psychology could help students teaching growth and development. (Author/RK)

This paper examined the growth of religious questioning in children which does not have the presuppositions of any established religious system such as Christianity and noted the need for research into the internalization of the culturally accepted system. (Author/RK)

Infant reaction to adult speech was studied through frame-by-frame analysis of sound films. Infants' actions were found to be synchronized with the organized speech behavior of the adults in his environment. (ST)

This study investigates the reactive effects of observers on interactions between teachers (undergraduates and mothers) and toddlers in a preventive educational program. Findings indicate that the presence of an observer differentially affects interactional patterns in the home. More specifically, undergraduates and toddlers are relatively…

Two exploratory studies were conducted to determine differences in the literary response patterns of children in kindergarten through fourth grade, as determined by their drawings. A study was then conducted to determine whether or not children of different ages talk differently about literature. A total of 30 children in grades one through four…

This study compares three six-week programs for weight control that were followed by several booster sessions and a 15-week followup. Although subjects in all programs showed significant weight losses (an average of 8.1 pounds for the 22 weeks), no significant differences between groups emphasizing stimulus control, reinforcement or general…

Few phenomena in psychology have been studied more than reaction time. However, while response latency now provides the basic data for research in many areas of cognitive psychology, little work has been done on the problem of incorporating response latency in the measurement of individual differences. A solution to this problem requires the…