Describes research evaluating teacher critical reading ability and finding that chronological age is inversely related to critical reading test performance. (AN)

From evidence of this study it appears that a person will learn more from a prose passage if he forms images of the things and events described in the passage. (Authors/MB)

Results indicated that subjects in each source of blame group responded with significantly less amplitude and speed following interruption than noninterruption. (Authors)

Results indicate that scoring tests by the self-scoring method can result in a higher split half reliability than tests scored by the traditional right-wrong method. (Authors)

An example approach to the analysis of data from the chemistry, biology, and inventory files of the antimalaria drug development program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research is presented. A general approach to the analysis of data from large files based on the organization of those files is discussed. (2 references) (Author/NH)

A modest survey to determine the nature of existing programs to prepare school principals bears out the author's thesis that these programs should be more responsive to the needs of principals who are enmeshed in today's societal crises. (Editor)

The influence hypothesis argues that the perceptual superiority of words is due to S's opportunity to use the redundancy in words for making perceptual inferences, while the Unitization hypothesis argues that words are more perceptible because there are fewer units to process in a word than in a nonword. (Author)

A unified treatment of the before-after and after-pnly designs and their combinations is given. The paper tries to bring out clearly the type of information each design is capable of providing and under what conditions (assumptions) the results from each experiment can be given useful interpretations." (Author)

This article is concerned with the specification and estimation of relationships whose dependent variable is qualitative in nature (such as yes or no). It discusses logit equations with and without interaction, and the estimation procedure is generalized least squares. (Author)

The author presents data compiled from answers to questionnaires concerning extra-curricular speech in High Schools. Analysis of the questionnaires indicates that cross-examination debating is most popular as a form of debate and that debate and/or forensic contests are the most popular method of school participation (Author/MS)

Schmidt and Strong's data (same journal, v17, 1970) on student ratings of the expertness of counselors versus training and experience of the counselors subjected to a least squares test, indicate that expertness as judged by students is not correlated in any simple way with experience but rather that the students liked one of the counselors,…

Negroes in segregated schools feel less able to control their environment and produce positive change than do those who attend integrated schools. Moreover, as the percentage of whites in a school increase, so does the motivation of the Negro students in that school. (CK)