It was discovered that parents of young hearing impaired children know the most about hearing loss, and parents of children in the 12- to 15-year age range know the least about hearing loss. Most parents in this study knew very little about their child's hearing aid. (Author)

Research is reviewed on factors affecting attitudes toward mentally retarded persons, including contact, intervention, and information. (CL)

The study examined the influence of prior knowledge on 15 third grade reading level deaf students' comprehension. Results on prequestion, retell, and probe responses indicated that younger deaf readers' prior knowledge and general comprehension of these paragraphs approximated that of older readers. (Author/SB)

Titular colonicity (presence of colon in title) is shown to index the progress of scholarship over a century. Analysis of 1,150 titles in education, psychology, and literary criticism reveals use of the colon in the majority of contemporary titles across disciplines, thereby demonstrating the progressive complexity of scholarship. (Author/MLW)

How a person decides that s/he doesn't know something is considered. It is argued that when asked a question, one first conducts a preliminary search of memory to locate stored information relevant to the question. Three experiments are presented, and important theoretical issues are discussed. (Author/GK)

Results of a survey to identify services or programs available to parents in 170 facilities, agencies, or school programs serving exceptional individuals in southern California and results of a survey of 100 parents of exceptional children are reported. (PHR)

Various health and rehabilitative services staff participated in a four-day death education program. Participants in the program and a control group were given two equivalent forms of a knowledge test. The treatment group showed a higher gain score on the posttest than the control group. (RC)

This article discusses the results of a survey conducted to determine what educators know and feel about the energy situation. A total of 324 educators, 82 percent of whom were elementary teachers, responded to the survey. Overall the educators were somewhat better informed about energy matters than the few general population groups which have…

A survey of 1,142 normal students in grades 4 through 12 indicated that they knew very little about mental retardation and the mentally retarded. Only about half of the respondents made reference to "subaverage general intellectual functioning," while references to physical impairment were frequent. (DLS)

Attempts to integrate Piaget's conceptualization of the development of social knowledge with the position of dialectical psychologists. (BD)

Thirty elementary school teachers and three principals were interviewed to ascertain the extent to which Anglo American educators perceive bilingual-bicultural education as a form of compensatory education. Results indicated that 40 percent of the educators perceive bilingual-bicultural education as a vehicle for assimilation, while 57 percent…

The internal consistency and validity of the Diabetes Regimen Responsibility Scale (DRRS) (L. Ruggiero and others, 1991) were examined in a sample of 49 youths. The DRRS demonstrated adequate internal consistency, and most subscales correlated significantly with diabetes knowledge (health education issue). Only two reports correlated with…

Responses from 94 men and 116 women aged 35-55 revealed that only 18% were aware of dietary recommendations and only 23% correctly estimated their daily fat intake. Those with a history of heart disease or previous nutrition counseling were more likely to have low fat intake. A focus on eating behavior rather than fat intake recommendations was…

Examines the role of addition and repetition in generating what counts as valuable educational knowledge and ideas in divergent tasks. Argues that the nature of valuable knowledge required for divergent tasks is different from that of convergent tasks. Attempts to define originality and examines how original or new significant ideas might be…