This report includes a discussion of five separate research studies which were conducted in preschool programs in Ontario, California during the year 1967-68. The first study includes only five children from Ontario in a larger project which attempted to assess young children's recognition of skin color differences. The second study was conducted…

The primary purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship between the occupational experience and professional preparation of machine-trades teachers and the achievement of machine-trades students taught by these teachers. Data were obtained through a mailed information form involving 46 teachers from six states and the achievement test…

A digital simulation of a model for the processing of visual images is derived from known aspects of the human visual system. The fundamental principle of computation suggested by a biological model is a transformation that distributes information contained in an input stimulus everywhere in a transform domain. Each sensory input contributes under…

A test was made to determine whether high expectancy prediction (the Rosenthal effect) would significantly effect reading achievement and IQ scores for tenth-grade students. Random samples of 112 students each were drawn from the tenth grade of a New Jersey high school representing a wide distribution of socioeconomic levels. The Sequential Tests…

To determine the relationship between parental childrearing practices, sex-role preference, and intellectual functioning in young boys, 21 lower class and 21 middle class white fathers were observed at home interacting with their 4-year-old sons. The Binet, the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, and Brown's "It" Scale were subsequently…

Brief annotations of currently available instruments appropriate for use with Spanish-speaking children are presented. Measures in such areas as intelligence, personality, ability, and achievement are included and separate indexes are given. The annotation provides information concerning the purpose of the test; the groups for which it is…

The theory underlying the measurement of intellectual growth by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) and its congruence with the objectives of the Appalachia Educational Laboratory (AEL) Early Childhood Education Program is explored. The PPVT was administered to a sample of 160 3- and 4-year-old children in three treatment groups: (1)…

Using a polygraph to determine the reading frustration level of 62 third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade students, the researchers examined several factors related to reading frustration on informal reading inventories. Two primary concerns of the study were (1) to determine whether factors of intelligence, age, sex, ethnic background, reading level,…

Three generalized variables were posited as being of major importance in structuring the aspirations of high school youths: the knowledge held by the youth with regard to the various occupational roles, the manner in which the various occupational alternatives were evaluated by him, and the self-evaluation by the student in which he assessed the…

The relationship between trial-to-trial changes in free recall and eight intelligence and memory abilities was investigated in a sample of 72 college students. Despite identical acquisition curves under immediate and delayed recall, differences between the two groups in correlational pattern between recall performance and abilities were striking.…

To ascertain the effects of an instructional strategy utilizing structural design problems and an instructional strategy utilizing unstructured design problems, 86 eleventh and twelfth grade students with IQ scores in the upper and lower 40 percent of the school population were randomly assigned to two treatment groups. The treatments consisted of…

This study explored the difference in intelligence among children from large families in relation to parent-child interaction patterns. The sample consisted of 56 children from large families living in Central West Virginia. The 56 children represented 20 families, all of which had five or more children, and were of similar economic circumstances.…

The problem of this study was concerned with instruction in reading rate acceleration and the effects upon comprehension. Correlates of reading achievement, sex, IQ, age, and interest were also considered. A six-week reading rate training program was completed by the three experimental classes randomly selected in each of grades two, four, and six…

Reported was a project studying the school performance of children who had survived laboratory confirmed Haemophilus influenza meningitis prior to 4 years of age without observable sequelae and who were enrolled in regular primary grades. Thirty-nine index children were matched with controls by age, sex, socioeconomic level, and classroom…

The Pluralistic Assessment Project, which has been funded for three years by the National Institute of Mental Health, was developed in response to the results of earlier studies on the epidemiology of mental retardation. During 1963 and 1964, data were gathered for a comprehensive epidemiology of mental retardation in the City of Riverside,…