Focuses on the attainment of the decision-making skills necessary for successful growth and development in today's technological world. A specific decision-making model is presented with guidelines for providing suitable experiences for students. (Author)

This paper stresses the gains for both developmental theory and educational practice that are brought about by social intervention research. The author suggests several directions for future research. (Author/BP)

Discusses a study designed to identify areas of research which may increase under standing of the relationship between speaker profanity and impression formation. Provides an experimental test of the predicted interrelationships between profanity, sex variables, and impression formation. (MH)

Discusses a study designed to specify the interpersonal communication related determinants of anomia within a close friendship context. (MH)

In six experiments subjects saw and pronounced, either aloud or silently, seven-item lists made from vocabularies of phonologically identical items. These materials were used to test the predictions of a precategorical and a postcategorical hypotheses for the modality effect in immediate memory. (Author/SW)

Suggests criteria to be used in the selection of a standardized test. Analyzes 12 standardized middle school science tests according to the percentage of questions in each of Bloom's categories. (CP)

Provides a review of research on scientific reasoning in persons between ages 14 and 18. For the application, the ability to separate variables or use the concept of "all other things being equal" is termed scientific reasoning. Over 50 studies are referenced. (CP)

In this essay teaching science to both cerebral hemispheres is advocated. Some of the literature supporting this point of view is discussed and a fantasy imagination exercise is also included. (MR)

Reviews techniques available for measuring student skills with the processes of science at the elementary and secondary levels. (SL)

In this study, the self-reported strategies of fifth, seventh, and ninth grade subjects used to learn a list of paired associates were correlated with actual learning performance to test the hypothesis that proficient learners are elaborators. (Author/SB)

A discussion of factors operative in foreign language learning. The most important is a good grasp of the native language both through acquired learning and the seemingly innate ability to structure sentences in the native language. The question of early foreign language learning is addressed. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Reviews research relevant to understanding the conditions in which elaborative inferences are made, with a particular concern for the implications for schema-theoretic notions of comprehension. (FL)

Critically examines papers by Wellman and Estes, Olson and Torrance, and Hall and Nagy. (AEW)

Two experiments indicating that children's linguistic generalizational biases change from a semantically-based system to a syntactical-structural system provide evidence for a semantic-relational bias in children's early grammars and support the notion that children's generalizational biases shift from a semantic-relational basis to a…