A test for use as a preliminary screening device for learning difficulties of first graders had results which indicated a strong relationship between students' scores on the test and teachers' year-end evaluation of students' academic progress. (Author/KM)

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation to the University of Texas at Austin. (DD)

Analysis indicates that both 5 and 7-year-old children are capable of distinguishing between anomalous and meaningful sentences although 7-year-olds demonstrate greater awareness of selection restriction rules. (Authors)

Goal of this study was to obtain information pertaining to what is acquired when children gain the ability to reproduce a diagonal pattern. (Authors/CB)

Special cases of the factor analysis model are developed for four selection situations. Methods are suggested whereby parameters in each case can be estimated using a maximum likelihood procedure recently developed by Joreskog. (Author)

Study tests the hypothesis that younger children's self-reinforcing tendencies would be governed by prior social comparison concerning the relative amounts of rewards each received by himself and a peer, while older children will take into account whether any observed discrepancy in rewards received is merited or arbitrary. (Author/CB)

The Zeigarnik effect, that is, the greater recall of incompleted over completed tasks was found to be significantly more frequent in Ss of high than low resultant achievement motivation, but no difference was found between repressors and sensitizers in this effect. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was to contribute new information on the effect of stimulus presentation variables on sight-reading errors, in the hope that it might aid the development of more effective and efficient instructional designs. (Author)

The data from the present experiment suggest that distraction may interfere with attitude change by decreasing reception of the message, and may increase attitude change by increasing yielding to the message. (Authors)

Study is an attempt to substantiate the hypothesis of an increasing prescriptive (or decreasing proscriptive) orientation in moral values between 1929 and 1958. (Authors)

Major findings were that: contingent reinforcement was effective in altering behavior; instructions did not augment the efficacy of contingent reinforcement; noncontingent reinforcement was effective for nondeviant students who were told that the reinforcement was actually contingent; and contingent reinforcement led to greater generalization than…

An analysis of the controversial document which has been used and misused by many groups to justify a variety of objectives--including reduction of school budgets. (Author)

Purposes of this study were to develop an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward the use of instructional television and to administer this instrument to a group of elementary teachers that use the medium on a regular basis. (Author)

Experiments report the retionale and outcome of the endeavor to develop a measure of the exploratory or curiosity value of reading materials which might help pave the way for the experimental analysis of factors underlying reading interest. (Author/CB)