Skilled and unskilled readers from grades 3, 5, and 7 performed one of three memory tasks on a randomized list of primary word associates. Examined reading skill differences in relation to memory skills. (BD)

Examines the processing of physical and nominal features of letters by children from grades 1, 2, and 6. Examines processing strategies in relation to reading ability. (BD)

Cross-modal and intramodal matching ability with visual and auditory content was studied in low, normal, and high IQ fourth-grade children (N=240) who were also administered tests of simultaneous and successive syntheses. Results indicated that simultaneous and successive central processes are involved in modality matching performance and that…

The author puts forward proposals for bringing together the pastoral care and academic systems normally kept separate in secondary schools. (Editor)

Offers a rationale for interdisciplinary arts programs and presents examples of aims and outcomes from the Visual Arts Interdisciplinary Concepts Curriculum that the author and fellow teachers in Attleboro, Massachusetts, have been developing and refining for over a decade. (Editor/RK)

An elementary teacher uses film-making as an example for students to understand just what is possible for them to achieve and that all learning is not fun. Learning also involves routine work, practice, memorization and exhausting effort. (Author/RK)

Student behavior measures were shown to be highly predictive of achievement, adding support to the notion that student behavior during instruction is strongly linked to student learning. (Author)

This article examines the relationship between learning and divergent production, and describes implications for the development of academic abilities. (Author/AM)

The article identifies and describes five broad curriculum data sources as wellsprings from which educational purposes and actions flow: society (social-political-cultural-economic forces at work), the disciplines (contributions of knowledge to learning), values, human growth and development, and learning processes. (Author/NQ)

The relative instructional effectiveness of five teaching methods, Reading, Lecture-traditional, Lecture-audiotape, Programmed Instruction and Multimedia, was studied. Comparisons were based on test scores obtained by trainee nurses on three different occasions following instruction on a topic in renal physiology. (Editor)

Given a set of dichotomously scored items, ordering theory attempts to identify a hierarchy among those items. A graphic representation is presented for an empirically obtained hierarchy and a testing procedure to evaluate hypothesized hierarchical relationships. (Author/JKS)

Current methods of testing reading ability do not give a full indication of children's reading ability and comprehension and may diminish pleasure in reading. (JD)

Describes the cooperative education program that is promoted by the Georgia Power Company and gives reasons why it is continued. (RK)

A series of generalizations about the learning performance of handicapped students was presented with several educational implications of those generalizations. (Author/RK)