Study tests the hypothesis that younger children's self-reinforcing tendencies would be governed by prior social comparison concerning the relative amounts of rewards each received by himself and a peer, while older children will take into account whether any observed discrepancy in rewards received is merited or arbitrary. (Author/CB)

The Zeigarnik effect, that is, the greater recall of incompleted over completed tasks was found to be significantly more frequent in Ss of high than low resultant achievement motivation, but no difference was found between repressors and sensitizers in this effect. (Authors)

The purpose of this study was to contribute new information on the effect of stimulus presentation variables on sight-reading errors, in the hope that it might aid the development of more effective and efficient instructional designs. (Author)

The data from the present experiment suggest that distraction may interfere with attitude change by decreasing reception of the message, and may increase attitude change by increasing yielding to the message. (Authors)

Study is an attempt to substantiate the hypothesis of an increasing prescriptive (or decreasing proscriptive) orientation in moral values between 1929 and 1958. (Authors)

Major findings were that: contingent reinforcement was effective in altering behavior; instructions did not augment the efficacy of contingent reinforcement; noncontingent reinforcement was effective for nondeviant students who were told that the reinforcement was actually contingent; and contingent reinforcement led to greater generalization than…

An analysis of the controversial document which has been used and misused by many groups to justify a variety of objectives--including reduction of school budgets. (Author)

Purposes of this study were to develop an instrument to measure the attitudes of teachers toward the use of instructional television and to administer this instrument to a group of elementary teachers that use the medium on a regular basis. (Author)

Experiments report the retionale and outcome of the endeavor to develop a measure of the exploratory or curiosity value of reading materials which might help pave the way for the experimental analysis of factors underlying reading interest. (Author/CB)

Study was initiated to provide information to classroom teachers, special teachers, and to curriculum personnel concerning the effects, if any, on general academic achievement of the use of the program, Physiology of Readiness (Getman and Kane, 1964), which is intended to develop body and sensory skills. (Authors)

Describes a survey designed to help administrators evaluate functional aspects, adequacy of employee work areas, quality of housekeeping methods, maintenance response, interior and exterior appearances, alteration and renovation satisfaction, employee feelings about parking adequacy, plant security, and attraction and function of roads and…

Deficits in position memory particularly seemed to be the major distinguishing variable between normals and retardates in the present study. (Authors)

As a step towards providing detailed, diagnostic data for teaching reading, a diagnostic test for two major letter-sound patterns was developed and tested on primary school children. (Authors)

Presents individual student testing profiles to provide meaningful graphic presentations of standardized test results. (Author/RK)

This was a pilot study to test the effectiveness of a training procedure which it was hoped would increase students' awareness of the reader's requirements when writing descriptions of technological equipment. (Authors)