Discusses how three basic management tools combine for effective performance improvement. (Author)

Study pits two competing hypotheses, demand characteristics hypothesis and subject commitment hypothesis, against one another in a laboratory context by manipulating subjects' anonymity. (CB)

Studied was the relationship of sex and race to the performance of 134 learning disabled and disadvantaged children on four subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children. (DB)

This investigation of 133 first grade Ss (25 percent Hispano--75 percent Anglo and 50 percent male), found no significant correlations between objective scores of young children's self-concept and their first or second grade reading achievement. (Author)

Results suggest that familiarity may be a useful variable in Attribute X Treatment interaction research. (Author)

The present study was designed to examine the relationship of certain personality factors to certain reading and reading related scores of children referred to a reading clinic because of presumed reading difficulties. (Authors)

As a method of helping teachers evaluate their own instructional performance on the basis of how that instruction affects learners, teaching performance tests may prove a useful ally to the elementary school principal. (Author)

Results imply that sets of instructions may form a response class, with characteristics similar to those found in studies of generalized imitation. (Author)

To test the proposition that different types of pretraining would result in different strategies" in the solution of concept identification problems, a design was used in which length of postfeedback intervals was made dependent on the correctness of Ss response. (Authors/MB)

Results suggest that modeling can indeed affect the complexity of children's sentences even in the absence of reinforcement or instructions of imitate. (Authors)

Results support the importance of the passage of time during learning as the crucial factor affecting high-arousal recall. (Author/MB)

Purpose of this experiment was to investigate the relationship between stimulus recognition and various learning conditions which were designed to affect both stimulus encoding and associative learning in a paired-associate task. (Authors)

In the follow-up study, most of the initial gains in IQ resulting from program participation were retained. (Authors/MB)