Twenty gifted learners (11 years old) demonstrated performance superior to 20 average age matched learners on problem solving tasks related to memory and attention, but not on all measures related to performance efficiency and strategy selection. Average Ss used significantly more advanced strategies when continued access to feedback was…

An interactional approach to attention problems in learning disabled children takes into account the degree of voluntary attention required by the task, the degree of structure in the setting, and the characteristics of the child. (CL)

Evaluated effects of perceived freedom of choice on behavior change. Subjects were assigned to groups that varied in amount of perceived choice in determining training procedures. Subjects who perceived that they were given choice in training procedures improved significantly more than subjects who lost freedom of choice. (Author/BEF)

Results showed that, even with efficient instructional procedures, overloading, higher failure rate, and percentage of transposition spelling errors and greater variance in performance may occur when the number of words presented each day exceeds three. (Author)

High-Formality and low-formality versions of a passage were read by undergraduate education students who either took notes for a presentation to professionals or to students, or simply read the text. Results of a free-recall test support the encoding function of note taking and its relation to informal prose. (Author/AEF)

A theory of cognitive modifiability deals with the phenomenon of low cognitive performance, explains its etiology, and forms the basis for a remedial intervention--Instrumental Enrichment (IE)--that induces changes of a structural nature in adolescents. (Author)

Among findings of the study involving 10 autistic children (8 to 15 years old) were that four adult approach styles (varying in structure and interpersonal demands) were reliably discriminable and that children's responses were positively related to the interpersonal and task oriented demands that were made of them. (Author)

A comprehensive three-year process for planning a system of teacher accountability can ensure discriminating and valid results. (Author)

The article describes how teachers can screen their severely handicapped students for allergies which, if untreated, can produce reactions that interfere with ability to attend to instruction. (Author/CL)

Thirteen intrinsic and extrinsic uncorrelated (orthogonal) factors related to academic performance of hearing impaired children integrated into regular classes are identified and described. The factors are discussed in terms of their implications for determining the suitability of a mainstream setting for a particular hearing impaired child.…

The efficacy of blood doping (infusion of blood into an athlete's circulatory system) has not been established and merits further research. (JD)

The efficacy of steroids in development of muscular strength in athletes is not proven. Their long-term use is increasingly being associated with liver disorders, including liver cancer, and other health problems. (JD)

The predictive ability of 10 developmental variables measured at age five to predict academic achievement at the end of first grade was studied with 40 Head Start children. (Author)

Reviews the literature on course attrition relevant to: factors contributing to course attrition, non-punitive grading, open entry/open exit courses, lack of non-credit options, reasons for withdrawal, curriculum areas with low course completion rates, programs and proposals for reducing attrition, evaluating non-credit students, and student…

To facilitate appropriate line choice for tactile graphic displays, 42 visually impaired Ss traced four types of tactile lines in a simple display (without intersections), and in a complex display (having intersections). (Author)