Discrepancy scores (Verbal IQ minus Performance IQ) were examined for the WISC-R, using the standardization sample as the data source. The occurrence of significant discrepancy scores was found not to be significantly related to age, sex, or race, although significant relationships were obtained with both parental occupation and intelligence…

An educational research project dealt with teaching slow learners to analyze their values related to public and private issues. Findings from a test sample of 75 ninth and tenth grade slow learning students indicated that the students did not exhibit greater understanding of value dilemmas when classroom projects dealing with the dilemmas were…

Provides additional data to explain the reverse effects of rewards on task performances for training problem-solving skills in fourth-graders. (RL)

Describes a study in which respondents were asked to evaluate their local newspaper, to tell which parts of the paper they considered the most useful, to state which newspaper items they read, and to tell why they read those items. (GW)

Sixteen mildly mentally retarded adults were compared on both an auditory and a visual vigilance task with 16 Ss having greater than average intelligence. (Author)

Comparison of the dynamic visual acuity (DVA) scores of high-ability and low-ability female basketball players, and between these two groups and a group of female volleyball players, resulted in the conclusion that there were no differences in the mean DVA scores between any of the groups. (MB)

Comparison of performance between subjects who practice transcendental meditation and those who do not revealed that meditation does not improve fine motor skills although it has many other benefits. (JD)

State test anxiety, worry, and emotionality were inversely related to performance, but partial correlations indicated that only worry was correlated with performance when the common variance between worry and emotionality was partialed out. High worriers performed less well than low worriers. No sex differences were found. (Author/MV)

A computer-assisted testing system (LEVEL3) was designed to provide frequent, meaningful, diagnostic feedback to basic medical science students. (JY)

Ways to motivate shorthand students are presented as a review of nine principles governing student motivation, in order to instill long-term interest in shorthand while providing short-term remedies to improve learning. The author states that student individual differences are so varied that teachers should formulate their own motivation methods.…

Performance assessment involves comparing the level and quality of an institution's outcomes with its objectives and examining input-output (cost-benefit) relationships. (Author/IRT)

Three experiments explored the development of formal logical reasoning between Grades 4 and 12 and the role of semantic content in the solution of Wason's (1966) selection task problems. Results suggest that formal logical reasoning is not generally present during the fourth or sixth grades and that formal logical competence becomes available in…

Describes a student identification and monitoring system developed to help students with unique learning needs make the transition through postsecondary vocational education programs. Focuses on the Theory of Educational Adjustment. (CH)

Describes how North Carolina educators cooperated to build a system of teacher-performance appraisal. To build the program, educators derived basic teaching functions from literature and observed teachers to gather performance data. Training is now provided to districts, and information about effective teaching is disseminated throughout the…