Eighty-seven students took part in a study (using three experimental conditions) of the effect of question generation, question answering, and rereading on an immediate posttest and on a delayed test of knowledge of a text passage. In condition G, subjects generated multiple-choice questions that would test knowledge of each of the six content…

Evaluated was the comprehension of maternal and experimentally posed Wh questions (such as what, why and who) by two 5-year-old Down's Syndrome children. Weekly taperecordings of mother-child play situations and videotapes of individual sessions with the experimenter were analyzed in terms of form, content, and appropriateness of Ss' response.…

The questioning techniques which teachers use when leading a class discussion of a reading assignment can be an essential component of profitable instruction. A brief review of the past 50 years of research on questioning levels indicates a need for attention to the cognitive level of queries as well as to their sequence since investigators have…

This study extended concepts derived from Rothkopf's mathemagenic hypothesis to problem solving. While previous mathemagenic research has established that adjunct questions interspersed with written prose facilitates learning, it has been criticized as educationally nonsignificant because the research has focused on verbatim learning. To test…

One of the training materials prepared for paralegals, or legal assistants, by the National Paralegal Institute under a Federal grant, the document presents legal interviewing techniques by focusing on an analysis of a particular legal interview conducted by a paralegal on a hypothetical case. From the analysis of the case, a number of problems,…

Three basic concerns in measurement were selected, and their importance for the classroom teacher were illustrated. These were test validity, reliability, and problems in measuring achievement gains. Test validity was dependent upon content, type and quality of the questions, adequacy with which the test sampled reading skills, and the care with…

A Rutgers University project attempted to develop and test some ways of creating awareness of the elements of intonation in primary pupils because they found a connection between intonation and certain kinds of reading errors. They also worked out ways to get reading instruction usage from the awareness of juncture, pitch, and stress. They took…

From sociolinguistic and dialect research have merged three hypotheses concerning the comparison of American Negro and white speech: (1) there is little difference in the linguistic usage of Negroes and whites of similar socioeconomic status; (2) Negroes have a separate dialect with its own phonological, grammatical, and lexical features; and (3)…

To test the efficacy of inquiry development materials with the gifted, six 7th-graders with IQ's in the top 3% participated in an inquiry science class with specially selected materials twice a week for 40 minutes over 6 months; six children with like IQ's worked on science activities in another room. Pre- and posttests in critical thinking and…

In order to determine the feasibility of bringing outstanding teachers to the high school classroom, 5 small Colorado schools examined multi-school sharing of information through use of long-distance conference telephone calls. Three of the experiments involved college professors lecturing via telephone to high school students in American History…

This is a working handbook for supervisors, staff members, and managers at all levels who are looking for ways to improve their conference leadership skills. It is built around frequently asked questions on participant involvement, the nature of a guided conference, questioning and motivational techniques, amounts of presentation needed, effective…

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students' pertinent questioning skill and their ability to make connections between given information and other verbal information (implications) would be improved more by teacher-initiated (T) or student-initiated (S) data-collecting questions. A group of 56 pupils in seventh- and ninth-grade…

The effectiveness of a televised science series used in the Seattle metropolitan area was investigated, using factorial design to provide a treatment variable representing four degrees of utilization of TV science and non-TV science. Teachers and their intact classes were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: TV science only, plus…

In an investigation of the "shaping" function of postquestions in prose and of a new methodological approach, fifth-grade children read forty text cards, each consisting of four attributive statements. Each card was followed by an experimental question, which during training tested information related to specified concepts or positions, or…

Reported is a study to examine the effects of seminar sessions focused on (1) curricular input, (2) affective developent, or (3) a combination of the preceding, on three groups of prospective elementary teachers. Each of the three groups was chosen for one of the seminar groups and a fourth group served as a control with the participants not…