The study compared community college transfers with the four year students at the University of Massachusetts and found that the two year institutions were doing their jobs and should not be discounted. (Author)

It appears that successful forestry students are active, outdoor types, and masculine in their interests. They are stable and intellectually competent, especially quantitatively, and if they take their preforestry in the university setting in which they ultimately do their forestry training, they are more likely to meet with success than if they…

Indicates that segmenting sentences into meaningful units improves reading comprehension through simplifying the syntax of complex sentences and cueing the reader as to the relationship among intrasentence phrases. (AEA)

Questions radiological physicist Ernest J. Sternglass's theory that links falling Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores in the 1960s and '70s to nuclear weapons testing in the late '40s, the '50s, and early '60s. Notes other scientists' contention that Sternglass's theory only establishes a correlation, not a cause and effect relationship. (JBM)

Provides a general overview of factors affecting foreign language learning, and discusses how they are related to one another. (EKN)