The cue utilization and hypothesis testing strategies of expert reading diagnosticians were examined throughout the diagnostic process. Diagnostic processes of three diagnosticians (a reading specialist, a learning disabilities specialist, and a classroom teacher), who were very different in background and teaching assignment, were studied at work…

A study examined the reaction of college freshmen to 30 essay test prompts to determine if rhetorical factors in the prompt would affect a student's choice of that prompt. The subjects, 40 college freshman enrolled in an introductory English course, rated eight rhetorical qualities of the essay prompts: (1) whether the essay would be easy to…

Two experiments examined the effects on recall of encoding and retrieval "depth" (the extent to which subjects process the semantic as well as the phonetic and orthographic attributes of verbal material), encoding-retrieval cue compatability, and subject versus experimenter generation of cues. In the first experiment, 117 undergraduates, divided…

In three experiments cue words were presented with to-be-remembered (TBR) words in an effort to influence specific encoding formats. Recall was tested in the presence of cues that were identical, semantically similar, or semantically dissimilar to the input cues. (Editor)

The present experiment attempted to separate these three aspects of retention loss (response competition, loss of list differentiation, and loss of response availability) and to assess their effects at both a short and long retention interval. (Author/RK)

One aim of the present study was to assess the role of elevation alone on children's perception of pictorial depth. (Author)

Presents three experiments which investigated: (1) the nature of the processes by which preschool and kindergarten children estimate small numbers; and (2) the generality of the number-relevant versus number-irrelevant categorization scheme in the child's operative thinking about small numbers. (Author/ED)

A study of the effects of three types of conservation judgments (qualitative, quantitative, and equivalence) on both continuous and discontinuous substances in 24, 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds. Subjects were tested on conservation ability with and without verbal justification. Half of the subjects were provided a memory aid, the other half were not.…

In each of three experiments, both cue validities and task predictability were held constant while the sign of the cue validities and cue intercorrelation were varied. (Editor)

The effectiveness of two extra-stimulus prompting procedures was compared in teaching receptive labels to a 3 year old autistic boy. One prompting procedure was used exclusively by the treatment center the child attended and was similar to extra-stimulus prompts used in previous studies. The procedure involved alternating unprompted trials of a…

The classic mnemonic for learning serial lists, the method of loci, and its modern counterpart, the peg system, were compared by having subjects learn three 20-item serial lists. In addition to the type of mnemonic training, list imagery was either high (rated 6-7) or medium (rated 4-5), and instructions were either progressive elaboration (e.g.,…

"The Electric Company" (TEC) uses a television format to introduce young viewers to the concepts of phonetics and word recognition. Though its presentation is intended to strengthen fundamental reading skills, some presentations tend to confuse viewers because they mix the essential attributes of print code with the incidental attributes…

A model for the systematic generation of verbal instructional cues is presented. The model utilizes a task analytic procedure referred to as "Maneuver Analysis," which is outlined and applied to the maneuver Vertical S-A. The cues generated on this basis are compared to current operational cues as found in "How to Fly" manuals,…

The most commonly stated and demonstrated shortcoming of the employment interview is its lack of reliability. Yet Wagner (1949) was able to conclude that the reliability of an employment interview is situation and interviewer specific. In this study, the author investigated the interviewer's scoring system, the way he weighs and combines the…

The general purposes of this project were to test microteaching procedures for teacher training and to study relations between the process of teaching and its outcome. The project made use of "cued" video models (a short peep being superimposed whenever the model demonstrated a goal-related behavior), videotape self-feedback with self-evaluation…