WISC subtest scores of children from rural mountainous cultural areas were higher for performance skills (object assembly, picture completion) than for verbal skills (information, similarities), suggesting that social and economic deprivation influence verbal comprehension abilities more than perceptual organization skills. (RL)

Concludes that the higher the cognitive level reached and maintained by the teacher during an instructional session, the higher the mean performance of pupils following an instructional session. (Author/RL)

Competent and low ability readers were tested in reading and listening comprehension. Seventh grade students were selected, assuming that reading and listening competency are comparable at this level. After reading or listening to a folk tale, subjects recalled the important ideas. Reading and listening performance were significantly correlated.…

Sixth graders from a semirural midwestern community were randomly assigned to one of four different learning strategies--imagery, overt repetition, covert repetition, and control. Results showed that imagery instructions facilitated learning performance; overt repetition interfered with performance; and covert repetition was similar to the control…

Defines and describes different types of audits and areas of patient care which lend themselves to a quality of performance review. Describes an audit application at a hospital-based crisis intervention center and the corrective action taken on the basis of the findings. (Author)

The effects of Response Cost, Reward, and No Consequence conditions in the performance of high and low ability students on an academic task were compared. An examination of the continued use in the schools of grading motivational procedures based on Response Cost techniques is suggested. (Author)

In this present study, a social learning theory of the family which links cognitive performance with distal and proximal environment variables is tested. The findings suggest that differences in the cognitive performance of children are better understood by analyzing relationships between structural social forces and the family learning…

Practical applications of educational theory on peer groups to classroom management are discussed. (MJB)

A questionnaire surveying more than 1,000 business, political, education, and military supervisors revealed that they valued skill performances and human relations as the two most critical components of subordinate success. (Author)

Focuses on the State University of New York at Albany Education Consortium Task Group efforts to state the broad guidelines and concepts upon which business education teacher competencies necessary for certification are based. (TA)

A survey of 231 British teachers assessed their ratings of classroom reforms which might stimulate student interest and reduce behavior problems. Results correlate with those from a study in 1952, showing abolition of corporal punishment as having little effect and smaller class size, remedial courses, and parental support as being most effective.…

The results of this study indicate that teacher expectations can have a substantial impact on student achievement, but that the strongest single predictor of teacher expectations is the student's achievement record. (JD)

Classroom environmental factors that promote or inhibit a climate facilitating learning are discussed, and general principles that may serve as a guide to developing effective classroom settings are presented. (MJB)

This article describes the work of the Faculty Resource Center at the University of Cincinnati and the programs it provides related to faculty development and discusses the need for examining organizational, interpersonal, and personal constraints on the behaviors of college faculty. (JD)

Style and situation variables combine to predict teacher perceptions of principal effectiveness, superordinate perception of principal effectiveness, and principal innovation effort. (Author/IRT)