Described is development and standardization of the Reading-Free Vocational Interest Inventory with a representative sample of 6,400 educable mentally retarded males and females in public secondary day schools and state residential institutions from all geographical, urban and rural regions of the U.S. (Author/MC)

Home-environmental processes, socioeconomic indicators, and family structure measures were canonically correlated with four mental abilities of 185, 11-year-old boys. Verbal and number abilities were the most predictable, with the process measures contributing the most to prediction. (DP)

Studied the effects of aptitude variables on learning from programed science material preceded by three differently structured advance organizers. Concluded that the structural properties could benefit low ability fourth-grade students in developing an adequate conceptual scheme for organizing material. (CC)

Since sex differences tend to disappear under identical systems of training with individual differences being more powerful than sex differences, whatever differences between the sexes in achievement and aptitude there may be do not warrant separating the sexes for instructional purposes. (JM)

Describes an innovative program of multi-age team teaching to provide individualized instruction in both academic and personality development. (AN)

Sample tests included. Revised version of a talk given at a meeting of the Allgemeinen Deutschen Neuphilologen-Verband on November 14, 1969, in Dortmund, Germany. (DS)

Measures of memory for order were correlated with measures requiring mental manipulation, achievement, and aptitude using college and fifth grade students. A significant relationship was found for fifth graders but not for college students, suggesting that the nature and capacity of short-term memory changes with age. (Author/PN)