Reports that people's evaluations of political satire may be based on the interaction of two elements: awareness of the issue satirized and involvement with the issue. (GW)

The authors present two instruments suitable for use in elementary schools for measuring knowledge gained in areas of oral health education. (MJB)

Takes up the discussion initiated by Michael Armstrong and David Hawkins (FORUM, 17:2 and 17:3) on the reconstruction of knowledge and the relationship of knowledge and individual experience and intuition. (Editor/RK)

Looks at the structures of childrens' oral language or "mother tongue" and the structures of adult literate prose and emphasizes the alternate conceptions of reality that those languages sustain. (MH)

The study sought to answer three questions confronting teacher educators in reading: (1) Are teachers proficient in word recognition skills; (2) what skills do teachers view as important for children to learn; and (3) does teacher knowledge influence their perceptions of skill utility? (Author/NG)

Suggests that as the social science knowledge requirements of real situations are met, the theoretical knowledge has been found to be less useful for such purposes than most social scientists believed it would be. (Author/AM)

A naming task using primary and secondary hues and achromatic stimuli was given to 669 preschool children. Results showed age and sex differences in performance and revealed an acquisition order similar to that found in related research and also similar to the proposed evolutionary order across cultures. (Author/JMB)

Student teachers' knowledge of and attitudes toward gifted children were studied via a questionnaire. The 250 Alabama student teachers correctly answered factual questions about the gifted 46.25% of the time, and their attitudes were 59.5% positive, demonstrating a moderate correlation between knowledge and attitudes. (JDD)

Investigated the influence of the child's knowledge base on symbolic play in terms of event schemas. Pretend play of 10 mother-child (ages 24 to 29 months) dyads was observed in novel and free play contexts. Play was examined for thematic content, self-other relations, substitute/imaginary objects, action integration, and planfulness. (Author/BN)

A telephone survey (N=385) was completed in the Columbus, Ohio, region to determine public awareness of hearing impairment and community resources that serve hearing impaired persons. Analysis led to suggestions for public dissemination of information concerning hearing. (Author/DB)

In comparing parent predictions of child performance with actual performance on six measures of emergent literacy, it was found that both fathers and mothers significantly overestimated their child's performance on over half of the measures. (PCB)

Relationships among knowledge, perception, and assertive behavior were examined in 32 learning-disabled boys (9-12 years old) . Analysis of data from self-report, role playing, and teaching ratings revealed no significant interrelationships among the three components of social competence, though assertive behavior was more highly valued than…

Investigated the relationship between the combined effect of knowledge of child development and level of social-emotional maturity, and the extent to which this relationship affects adolescent attitudes toward parenting. Negative attitudes toward parenting were associated with lack of knowledge of child development and low levels of…

Reports on an experiment where novice and expert programmers made decisions about Fortran code segments. The results show that, although expert programmers are better able to extract and use functional information, they don't differ significantly from novices in their ability to use syntactic concepts. (Author/EM)

This study compared the cardiovascular health knowledge, perception of risk factors, and health behavior of 69 freshmen with a family history of cardiovascular disease with 154 freshmen without this history. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)