The role of feedback, opportunity for text review, and confidence in subjects' responses was examined using a 25-frame program on heart disease. Undergraduates participated in a pre- post-test design; all subjects received an immediate post-test. Results replicated and extended a model relating feedback, confidence, and post-test response.…

To demonstrate the potential use of "Standards of Practice" by continuing education providers, selected tasks from the Standards were used in both the design and evaluation of a six-hour introductory program on effective communication in pharmacy. Evaluation of program effect was based on a pretest and a posttest. (Author/MLW)

College juniors (N=28) tested two versions of the Marshall Flotation Technique to obtain consistency of descriptive comments in rating themes compared with number and letter grades. High reliability estimates for all four pre and post-test groups and a significant decline from pre to post groups in number of comments resulted. (Author)

On the first and last days of the course, 97 adolescent participants on 14 wilderness adventure courses of 20-30 days duration completed the Sex Role Questionnaire by responding on a Likert scale to 22 statements. Data indicate that adolescents' sex-role stereotypes became less traditionally oriented by the end of the course. Contains 17…

Adult migrant learners of English were studied to investigate the effect of instruction on interlanguage development. Examination of the acquisition of a syntactic structure, "do-fronted questions," supported claims for the productiveness of form-focused instruction and suggested that the success of instruction depended on whether specific…

This study assessed the influence of emphasizing historical investigation with fifth graders through documentation of classroom activities and students' analysis of historical documents and images before and after the design experiment. Data suggested that the investigative approach holds promise for teaching fifth graders how to analyze…

Relationships between pretraining skills, learning, and posttest performance were studied in spatial and verbal tasks for 84 preschool children. The measurement model that fit the data best maintained separate verbal and spatial domains. The best structural model included paths from pretest and learning assessments to posttest performance within…

Discusses learner-centered active assessment, or interactive assessment, and applies it to an instructional design course that used WebCT (a Web-based authoring/management tool) to support a face-to-face classroom setting. Highlights include a definition of classroom assessment; and results of pretests and posttests, class surveys, and course…

Investigated the potential of incorporating learning strategy instruction into hypermedia learning materials in a high school computer class. Discusses results of a six-week intervention where the experimental group participated in learning strategy training in conjunction with hypermedia computer networking lessons and reports results of pre- and…

Collected self-report data on 6 different types of social support and 3 distress symptoms from 37 pretest clients who participated in 6 counseling center therapy groups (26 completed posttests). Significant improvement in symptoms was noted during the 8-week interventions, and was related to the availability of social support, largely from sources…

Describes study that investigated the impact that varying levels of programing had on teachers participating in computer literacy training coursework. Models of computer literacy are described, the use of the Minnesota Computer Literacy and Awareness Assessment is explained, and implications of the results for teacher training are discussed. (12…

Describes the method used and results of evaluations of the impact of library instruction on student learning and attitudes in the Ohio State University freshman program. The discussion covers common student misperceptions about librarians, the importance of planning reliable and valid evaluations, and recommendations for implementing an…

Students in fourth and seventh grade who were poor comprehenders were taught prediction, clarification, question generation, and summarization using scaffolding instruction. Performance on a standardized comprehension test improved for the students who received the instruction. (PCB)

Replicates and expands upon an earlier study conducted by Robert Szafran in which a pretest was used to explore the effects of prior knowledge upon grades. Confirms that pretest scores and grade point average predict posttest scores. Presents a number of implications for teaching. (KO)

Discusses instructional analogies and describes two studies which were designed to examine the effects of instructional analogy training on college students' ability to identify the application of advanced physiological concepts. Student performances are compared with and without analogies and future research is suggested. (Contains 71…