Papers from the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement examine the theoretical considerations and cognitive processes of written composition, writing curriculum analysis, school writing domain specifications, the interrelationships of writing task specifications, and scoring of compositions. An analysis of writing…

Reports on a study in which high and low ability elementary school students pronounced synthetic words exemplifying certain phoneme grapheme correspondences. Compares these pronunciations to principle pronunciations indicated from type counts of letters and clusters appearing in a selected word corpus. Concludes that the technique led to greater…

Nouns were presented in triads as pictures, printed words, or spoken words and followed by various types of interference. Measures of short- and long-term memory were obtained. In short-term memory, pictorial superiority occurred with acoustic, and visual and acoustic, but not visual interference. Long-term memory showed superior recall for…

Contains six articles illustrating techniques used in working with adult dyads at the Marriage Council of Philadelphia. Describes cognitive therapy, values analysis, and individual interview methods. Discusses effects of rape on couple adjustment, interrelationships of sexual adjustment and marital satisfaction, and a 20-year longitudinal study of…

Offers a model which is intended to facilitate the processing of ideational relationships within a paragraph and which is composed of three distinct parts: (1) direct teaching, (2) functional application, and (3) increased student interaction with the text. (FL)

Finds support for the concurrent validity of miscue analysis as a measure of the silent reading processes of elementary school students with respect to the dimensions of syntactic and semantic strength. (FL)

Suggests that the impact of career events is cognitively mediated. Proposes cognitive treatments of career concerns that are derived from cognitive developmental theories and cognitive/behavioral models of counseling and therapy. Additionally, the issues of cognitive career assessment and research are discussed. (Author)

Identifies 10 areas that are vital to successful remedial reading instruction and offers specific suggestions of ways to ensure success in each area based on a theoretical view of reading as an active, thinking process influenced by a child's conceptual abilities and language experience. (FL)

Menu-planning concepts, teaching and learning theory, and computer-assisted instruction were integrated to develop an interactive computer-assisted instructional menu planning program. The program was used to study the manner in which student and expert menu planners use knowledge when evaluating and revising a problem menu. (DS)

This investigation provided empirical data and addressed theoretical issues regarding the Educational Set Scale (ESS) and theory. An expanded model is proposed and directions for future research are suggested. (Author/GK)

Common mathematical errors of pupils as identified by the Concepts in Secondary Mathematics and Science Project are identified and traced to the use of methods invented by students rather than formally taught methods. (MP)

Student advising at the University without Walls at the University of Minnesota focuses on developing cognitive skills outlined in Bloom's taxonomy by overseeing student programs and progress through graduation and by early assessment of student skills. Each phase of student advising incorporates one or more specific cognitive skill. (MSE)

Proposes a categorization scheme based on instructional design theory and empirical findings for employing various types of graphic/visual displays under specified conditions. (Author/CHC)

Piaget's characterization of formal operational thought and human judgment psychologists' model of bounded rationality are two conflicting models dealing with the nature and limits of mature thought. However, a look at the respective databases demonstrates their complementarity and their contribution to understanding mature cognition. (Author/RD)

The paper presents four research projects in process in the Communication Sciences Laboratory at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. These projects illustrate four broad areas of research on the relationships between higher order information processing systems and the communication skills and problems exhibited by deaf people. (Author)