Project of the Institute on School Learning and Individual Differences and The John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, George Peabody College for Teachers.

Comparison of 384 male and 91 female autistic children (three through eight years old) revealed that females as a group scored less well on intelligence tests. Boys also performed better than girls on eye-hand integration and perceptual tasks. Predictions of female superiority in affect and receptive vocabulary were not supported. (CL)

Educational psychologists frequently consider the arts to be emotive forms that might provide satisfaction--but not understanding. This article argues that if cognition is a matter of becoming aware, of perceiving, then the senses and the arts play a crucial role in providing essential resources for education. (Author/WD)

An Ames static trapezoidal window was used to test infants' responsiveness to pictorial depth. Sensitivity to the pictorial information for depth that is present in the trapezoidal window appears to develop after the age of 22 weeks. (Author/DB)

Indicates that spatial ability describes a variety of different behaviors and briefly reviews efforts to define intelligence factors and identify processes involved in solving tasks requiring spatial ability. (DS)

Results of a study indicated that, as age increased from seven to 20 years, reaction time decreased, with males having a more rapid reaction time than females. Beginning at age 10 or 11, subjects developed better motor plans and relied less on rapid reaction time to achieve good anticipation time. (FG)

The Developmental Test of Visual-Motor Integration, the Wide Range Achievement Test, and the Student's Perception of Ability Scale were administreed to 70 learning disabled and 73 normally achieving third-grade children who had been stratified on full scale Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R) IQ scores. (Author)

Little formal training in skills is given with undergraduate courses in chemistry. A possible remedy is the introduction of specially devised exercises for skill development in logical argument, problem solving, appreciation of scientific limitations, fluent and grammatical writing and speaking, and decision making. (MSE)

Pronoun mastery demands a knowledge of speech roles and an ability to identify oneself and others in those roles. Twenty-one girls' knowledge of "my,""your," and "her" was assessed when they were speakers, addressees, and nonaddressed listeners. The children were aware of speech roles only when they themselves occupied these roles. (PJM)

The association of locus of cerebral hemispheric specialization of spatial function with identity and equivalence conservation judgments was tested in a group of four- to six-year-old right-handed children (N=31). (Author/MP)

A basic perceptual motor equipment learning course is described including the necessary equipment and suggested activities. (JMF)

Describes how teachers may use photography to increase students' understanding of "point of view" and to refine students' writing skills. (DD)