Research investigated whether cognitive learning scores and perceptual distortion measures of basic airmen would be influenced by instructor rank. Four groups of students, each composed of high, medium and low ability individuals, were created; each viewed a 20 minute television lesson on how to study. They differed only in that each was taught by…

CCEP's Pupil Role Interview study includes an interview content analysis. This analysis deals with questions involving the way children view their learning environment, the aspects that are most prominent in the child's eye, and the match between the child's real and ideal learning environment. The content analysis revealed that: (1) program…

An exploratory investigation of police promotional examinations was made in an attempt to improve the testing procedures that were in use. A primary goal of the study was to identify a pool of performances (tasks, behaviors) of police sergeants, lieutenants, and captains that might serve as referrents for job-related test items for promotional…

The Swick-Ross Child Perception Inventory is an assessment instrument for examining the perspectives of teacher education students, inservice teachers, parents, school administrators, and other related personnel with regard to various affective factors that have been associated with successful teaching/learning situations. Forms A, B, and C are…

The purpose of this program was to demonstrate the effectiveness of a tape-recorded, sequenced program of auditory perceptual training in raising the reading and listening skill levels of students in grades two to six. Eighty-five boys and 67 girls in the second grade and 25 boys and 14 girls in learning disability group clinics in grades two to…

A teacher's role is to make the child totally aware of his world. Creative arts and crafts should lead the normal or handicapped child to increased awareness of and sensitivity to the world around him. Such basic concepts as shape, color, texture, symmetry, designs and patterns, movements, and distance perception can be developed through arts and…

A student teacher is often liable to be placed in a conflictive situation between faculty consultants and cooperating teachers who have widely differing conceptions of the role of the ideal teacher. None of the possible responses of a student teacher are conducive to effective learning, especially the decision to "get by." This conflict can be…

Prepared for use in outdoor and environmental studies, this manual provides a collection of activities which focus on awareness, represented as a process involving observation, interpretation, and application. Traditional subjects and processes are suggested for each component of the awareness continuum. However, because the activities are…

The purpose of this study was to see if a relationship between color sensitivity and skin pigmentation would affect performance on the WISC block design subtest when both the standard red/white design and the blue/yellow design were used. It was hypothesized that the white children would perform better overall because black children have been…

This study had three purposes: (1) to stimulate discussion of the role of the high school press association in the future by reviewing its current policies and programs, (2) to gather information about the associations, particularly the date of founding and the name of the founder, (3) to gather information on the members in each association and…

The objective of the investigation was to develop and test procedures for training children in coordination of projective space. (Projective concepts involve apparent distance, relative position, shape of figures, and other topological factors. A person with a command of projective space sees objects as a coordinated system of figures in space.) A…

This study gathered data to discover (1) if urban elementary school teachers in varying organizational climates held different values concerning disadvantaged students, and (2) if, in differing organizational climates, there were significant differences between teachers' and principles' values concerning disadvantaged students. Data from 16 Kansas…

In an attempt to study the role of pictures in connection with the perception of information via television, the pictorial accompaniment to some news items in a simulated television news program was systematically varied. The retention of the verbal message and the perception of the news items were measured for the different illustrations. It was…

Within the Calgary school system, a series of pictorially programed instructional booklets (Articulated Instructional Development booklets) are used for the multiple-activity approach to teaching industrial arts. Using a random sample of 100 students from eighth graders enrolled in the materials section of the Calgary Plan, a Q-Sort instrument was…

Vroom's cognitive model, which proposes to both explain and predict an individual's level of work productivity by drawing on the construct motivation, is discussed and three hypotheses generated: (1) that Vroom's model does predict performance in a non-industrial setting; (2) that it predicts self-perceived performance better than measures…