Working with the entire junior class of a suburban, middle-class high school, researchers investigated the effects of family stability on student performance, using the Iowa Test of Educational Development as an achievement measure. A statistical test was applied to two groups of students, representing stability or lack of stability in the family…

Certain characteristics of a Taylor (1965) competitive reaction time task contribute to a lack of awareness of contingencies that exist between two aggressors. The opponent's contingent response to the subject's specific shock setting may be obscured by the reaction time competition, thus concealing the matching contingency. Nine separate steps…

The relationship between therapist empathy skill level and therapist non-defensive awareness of countertransference phenomena with three client types, i.e., seductive, hostile and neutral affect, was investigated. Therapists in training (n=22) were administered the Yulis and Kiesler immediacy measure as a measure of non-countertransference…

A REVIEW OF THE PROBLEMS AND PROGRESS OF INTEGRATION IN THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM SINCE 1955 IS PRESENTED. THE NUMBER OF SCHOOLS HOUSING A MAJORITY OF NEGRO AND PUERTO RICAN STUDENTS HAS INCREASED AT ALL LEVELS OF EDUCATION. THE BASIC FACT THAT THE PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION STUDY UNCOVERED REGARDING ACHIEVEMENT DATA WAS THAT THE LONGER…

IF IT IS RECOGNIZED THAT THE SOLE JUSTIFICATION IN GIVING A TEST IS TO OBTAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHILD, FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE CHILD'S PERFORMANCE ON THE TEST MUST BE CONSIDERED IN THE INTERPRETATION OF TEST RESULTS. A SUFFICIENT KNOWLEDGE OF THE CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT, HIS BACKGROUND, HIS PERCEPTION OF THE TEST SITUATION, AND THE…

AN EXTENSIVE REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE SINCE 1900 SEEMS TO INDICATE THAT, IN SOME WAY, THERE IS AN INTERACTION BETWEEN INTELLIGENCE, AGE, SOCIAL GROUP, AND THE EFFECTS OF PRAISE AND BLAME ON SCHOOL CHILDREN. INCONSISTENCIES IN EXPERIMENTAL FACTORS HAVE PRECLUDED ANY DEFINITIVE STATEMENTS REGARDING THE PROBLEM. AN INVESTIGATION OF THE…

This bibliography contains citations of more than 700 studies concerned with the critical incident technique (a method of research based on identifying critical factors in human performance in a variety of situations and used to solve practical problems in industry, education, health, and community service). References cited have been indexed in…

Training older persons to use memory strategies and mnemonic techniques derived from an information processing model of memory has resulted in improvements in performance on specific tasks. Some studies have also shown that the elderly are less likely to use memory techniques than younger persons and that it is the use of techniques that best…

The purpose of this study was to determine if five-year-old children displaying high or low ability to process visual information exhibited the same high-low ability in proficiency of motor tasks which were dependent upon visual information for successful completion. The subjects were 40 five-year-old children who were required to pass a visual…

Evaluated in four studies comparing the learning of synonyms by learning disabled (LD) or normal children were the effects of four treatments: varying amounts of material to be learned, varying amounts of practice, varying stimulus familiarization, and varying association value. Results were inconclusive regarding optimal amount of material to be…

The monograph reports on a number of studies relating the self-concept to performance in education and employment. Using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS), experimenters divided subjects into two groups (successful/unsuccessful) and attempted to predict subjects' behavior and success on the basis of differences in the TSCS scores. All…

Locke has concluded that motivational knowledge of results (KR) has no effect on performance if goal is controlled. Previous studies, however, always afforded to No KR groups some KR. In the present study a 2x2 factorial design (KR-No KR; low-high goal) was used. Stringent controls were instituted to eliminate all KR, in the No KR conditions. The…

This guide, prepared for the Department of the Army, presents fundamental information and basic techniques for the conduct of Performance Counseling by instructors, tactical officers, and other personnel who may be required to appraise the performance of students and to communicate the results of their appraisals to students. The purpose of…

This study used linear models developed by stepwise multiple regression to examine the relationship between performance at the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School and subsequent grade point average (GPA) at the USAF Academy. Data collected on Prep School graduates in the Academy classes of '71 through '77 who had completed at least…

A total of 320 subjects in five grades (two, four, six, eight, ten) and from two types of school settings (middle-class and disadvantaged) were studied. Subjects learned eight-pair lists of familiar nouns in a standard paired-associates task. Each subject learned two lists, one presented visually and the other, aurally. Performance on the visual…