Two hundred Honolulu-area students from the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth grades participated in a study that examined the variables effects of five selected factors (developmental level, sex, reading ability, adult intervention, and variation in film content/form) on the ability of two age groups (nine and ten year old children and thirteen…

This study investigated the development of children's perceptions of clothing, particularly as a form of nonverbal communication. Sixteen boys and sixteen girls at five grade levels (kindergarten, second, fourth, sixth and eighth grades) were interviewed individually. A series of six questions was asked to determine whether the children used…

Systematic classroom observation instruments were used to study the relationship between student coping style and student growth in reading. Classrom behaviors were recorded in the fall and the following spring with the Coping Analysis Schedule for Educational Settings (CASES). Data were analyzed separately for two types of classroom setings:…

Grade level norms were developed, based on a sample of 678 elementary school students, for various error scores of the Benton Visual Retention Test. Norms were also developed for 201 normal children, 58 minimal brain dysfunction children, and 101 educable mentally retarded children. In both the copying mode and the memory mode, most errors were…

Differences in the prediction of academic achievement between traditional and older undergraduate students are examined. Central tendency and correlational statistics were used to analyze the independent variables using college grade-point average as the dependent variable. Data were analyzed separately for freshmen and transfer students as well…

This paper discusses a research project carried out to study and compare the reading processes of native and second language speakers of English. The procedure developed for the observation and description of the reading process and related language experience included initial diagnostic testing and taped inventories, a sequence of tutorial…

Interest in occupational stress in older employees can be expected to increase in the future. Among the more widely documented sources of stress at work are those associated with demands of the job. Laboratory research in gerontology shows a disproportionate effect on older persons of increased work task demands. Naturalistic studies also suggest…

Although the recognition of the affective experiences of peers is an important prerequisite for social adaptation, children's ability to recognize peers' facial displays of emotion remains unexamined. To investigate the degree to which young children were able to enact expressions of emotion that were recognizable by peers and adults, and to…

It has long been recognized that childhood socialization occurs mainly through relationships with others, but only within the last decade or so can it be said that the study of relationships has become central to developmental psychology. As young children grow older, their sphere of relationships extends beyond the primary caretakers, and perhaps…

The effect of month of birth on skill development in language, reading, and mathematics was examined separately for kindergarten and first grade children. The study looked at the strength of the relationship at the beginning and end of the school year and as a function of the type of program in which the child was enrolled. One hundred and…

This report describes the student selection process and its results for the Horizon Program, a magnet program for gifted students conducted in Seattle, Washington public schools in 1978-1979. In the first section various measures used to determine students' creative, academic, intellectual, and leadership capabilities for program admission are…

Each semester since Spring 1978, students registering for courses at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) have been asked to respond to questions related to their primary educational goal, certainty of that goal, plans for achieving the goal, and intention to return to MCCC the following semester. In Spring 1980, 7,425 students registered for…

Fifty residents of Houston, Texas, were surveyed to determine whether or not factors concerning their background affected their word choice, grammatical usage, and pronunciation. Each informant answered a questionnaire consisting of one page of background data and two pages of questions about his daily speech. In correlating the participants'…

Norms are tabulated for the Bender Gestalt Test, based on a group of 62 male and 73 female junior high school students in Utah. These norms are designed to fill a gap in norms which now range from 3 years through adult. The students in this group were aged 12 through 14. Standard Bender Gestalt cards were used. The tests were administered…

This experiment compared retarded and normal subjects at different developmental levels on visual (V) and haptic (H) matching tasks. Systematic observations of variables known to have developmentally linked effects on accuracy, including stimulus complexity and haptic exploratory search style, were made. Seventeen mentally retarded subjects, with…