AUDITORY PERCEPTION, WHICH INCLUDES AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION AND AUDITORY MEMORY, IS DISCUSSED AND CLARIFIED IN RELATION TO LEARNING TO READ. THE FACTORS ARE DISCUSSED AS PERCEPTUAL QUALITIES WHICH ARE PART OF AN AURAL INPUT PATHWAY. INITIAL DATA FROM A LONGITUDINAL STUDY TO TEST THE EFFECT OF AUDITORY MEMORY AND DISCRIMINATION ON BEGINNING READING…

SINCE THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT IS IDENTIFIABLE IN THE PRIMARY GRADES, IT IS NECESSARY TO LAY THE GROUNDWORK FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING MUCH EARLIER THAN HIGH SCHOOL. THIS IS THE RATIONALE FOR THE FIVE-YEAR PRESCHOOL LANGUAGE PROJECT FUNDED UNDER THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT. THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS PROJECT ARE TO PREPARE A SET OF LANGUAGE INSTRUCTIONAL…

A SIXTH AND FINAL PHASE OF A NATIONAL PRINCIPALSHIP STUDY, BASED ON DATA OBTAINED FROM 382 MALE PRINCIPALS IN 41 LARGE CITY SCHOOL SYSTEMS, WAS DESIGNED TO EVALUATE THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION (LOA) OF MALE SCHOOL PRINCIPALS, DEFINED AS THEIR DESIRE TO ATTAIN HIGHER LEVEL ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS IN SCHOOL SYSTEMS. THE STUDY AIMED…

THE RELATIONSHIP OF MOVEMENT RESPONSES TO LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT WERE INVESTIGATED (1) TO IDENTIFY FACTORS CLAIMED TO MEASURE MOTOR APTITUDE AND INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT IN PRE-ADOLESCENTS, (2) TO DEVELOP MOTOR APTITUDE TEST BATTERIES FOR PREDICTING INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT, (3) TO STUDY RELATIONSHIPS OF COORDINATION AND BALANCE TEST ITEMS IN…

THE ENVIRONMENT OF CHILDREN FROM LOW SOCIO-ECONOMIC LEVELS MILITATES STRONGLY AGAINST THEIR SUCCESS IN SCHOOL. TO HELP THWART OR REVERSE THE DEFICIENCES OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH, THE PRESCHOOL ENRICHMENT PROGRAM WAS CREATED. THIS DOCUMENT IS AN EVALUATION OF A 1965 SUMMER HEADSTART PROGRAM FOR 4- AND 5-YEAR-OLDS IN KEARNEY, NEBRASKA. TESTS WERE…

INFANT SCRIBBLING ACTIVITY IS NOT SIMPLY PLAY. IT CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL ATTENTION AND PERCEPTION. YET, SCRIBBLING, UNLIKE WRITING IN THE COMMUNICATION SENSE, IS NOT MOTIVATED BY THE DESIRE TO INFORM, NOR TO SET DOWN THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS. THE EXPERIMENTAL HYPOTHESIS OF THIS STUDY WAS THAT THE MOTIVATIONS FOR SCRIBBLING ARE (1)…

THIS REPORT, PREPARED FOR THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION BY CARLETON OPINION RESEARCH SERVICES, IS A CONDENSATION OF A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY IN THE PILOT REGION OF THE BAEQ (BUREAU D'AMENAGEMENT DE L'EST DU QUEBEC). MEETINGS WERE HELD IN 1964 IN THE DIOCESES OF RIMOUSKI AND GASPE TO HELP INDUCE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGYMEN TO…

DESIGNED FOR STUDENT AND PRACTICING SPEECH PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS, THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE HISTORY OF AUDITORY TRAINING, PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH HEARING LOSS, THE DEVELOPMENT OF ORAL LANGUAGE, BASIC CONCEPTS OF AUDITORY PERCEPTION, AND SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF AUDITORY TRAINING. SUCH ASPECTS INCLUDE--(1) FACTORS RELATING TO AUDITORY TRAINING,…

THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO TEST THE THEORY THAT LABORATORY GROUPS MAKING COMPLEX DECISIONS WILL DISTORT THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF EACH OTHER IN WAYS PREDICTABLE FROM NEWCOMB'S A-B-X MODEL OF PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION IN WHICH "A" REPRESENTS THE PERCEIVING INDIVIDUAL, "B" REPRESENTS ANOTHER MEMBER OF THE GROUP, AND "X" THE…

PRELIMINARY ANALYSES WERE UNDERTAKEN TO DETERMINE THE POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION OF MOTION PICTURE FILMS TO FACTOR ANALYTIC STUDIES OF HUMAN INTELLECT. OF PRIMARY CONCERN WERE THE OPERATIONS OF COGNITION AND MEMORY, FORMING TWO OF THE FIVE OPERATION COLUMNS OF GUILFORD'S "STRUCTURE OF INTELLECT." THE CORE REFERENCE FOR THE STUDY WAS DEFINED…

Role theory predicts that when expectations are disconfirmed, the perception of persons who do not conform to the stereotypes may be distorted. To investigate the evaluation of sex-typed behavior in males and females, male and female college students (N=120) read about one of four persons described as either a man or woman in either a masculine or…

The story of successful crisis management teaches some lessons applicable not only to surmounting crises but to everyday management decisions as well. On Christmas eve, 1974, a cyclone demolished 90 percent of the city of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. As thousands gathered in neighborhood schools, a team of educational administrators…

A major problem in teacher education is the maintenance of beginning teachers' idealism in the face of practicing professionals' pragmatism. Teacher education programs train students in theories, concepts, and practices only to assign them to public schools, where the antithesis of everything the program attempted to teach is an accepted,…

Many studies report severe role overload problems for spouses and particularly for the wives in dual-career families; whether this overload is perceived by subjects themselves or by the researchers is not always clear. To clarify the overwork issue, the perceptions of university faculty women (N=151) regarding their career and domestic work loads…

The development of a course on the counseling of women is presented with a list of core topics, the bases for counseling women. The course topics include psychological and sociological factors, developmental theory, sex-role learning, perception of the female role, bias in counseling and testing, career choice, psychopathology, group counseling,…