This hardware review describes such innovative features of the Texas Instrument Portable Professional Computer as integrated color screen and option slots permitting customization as well as the physical unit (inside and out), its mass storage flexibility, and sturdiness. A comparison with the IBM PC Portable is included. (MBR)

Five K-12 art activities are described. Elementary students study the paintings of Paul Klee. Junior high students do tempera paintings of flowers. High school students make black and clear glue drawings, learn about the cup paper art of Henri Matisse, and study and interpret leaf forms of the magnolia trees. (RM)

Describes a study designed to compare color-name with shape-name learning by three-year-old children in an experimentally controlled format. Results show that children learned color-label associates significantly more slowly than matched shape-label associates, and they committed more errors with colors than with shapes during learning. Provides a…

Guidelines for selecting and using pictures to guide instructional decisions and behaviors are based on three areas of research: role of pictures and how they improve learning, how context or environment in which pictures operate can influence usefulness, and how physical and perceptual characteristics of pictures affect their function. (MBR)

Twenty-nine male and 35 female right-handed children, aged five to seven, were assessed for the effect of familial sinistrality left-handedness on a rapid color-naming task. Controlling for age and family size, a significant effect for degree of familial sinistrality was found in the girls but not in the boys. (Author)

Describes the chemistry of dyeing, including acid, basic, vat, and disperse dyes. Includes laboratory experiments. (MLH)

A description of how microfiche is used in the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Illinois. (HB)

Article describes the advantages of bringing animals into the art room. (RK)

A critical analysis of a novel by Gwendolyn Brooks entitled Maud Martha,'' which tells the story of a seven-year-old girl who grows up and marries; the novel is included in The World of Gwendolyn Brooks,'' the author's collected works, published in 1971 by Harper and Row. (Author/JM)

Study was designed to investigate the effects of color cues and of subject-employed strategies in the development of selective attention in a short-term memory task. (Authors)

Findings were: it did not matter whether the seriation involved the hues used in subsequent tasks or other hues; the presence or absence of reinforcement during perceptual pretraining did not affect pretraining, training, or transposition behavior; and seriation pretraining produced increased transposition in the intermediate-hue problem.…

Results of this study suggest that availability of a consistent set of color labels is related more closely to recognition accuracy than is the spontaneous production of labels in a color recognition task. (Authors)

Reported was the occurrence of an intense grey-brown discoloration of the skin, serum, and urine, and anemia in a premature infant when phototherapy was used to reduce hyperbilirubinemia. (CB)