Collaborative learning in an online classroom can take the form of discussion among the whole class or within smaller groups. This paper addresses the latter, examining first whether assessment makes a difference to the level of learner participation and then considering other factors involved in creating effective collaborative learning groups.…

This paper explicates the elements of several policy instruments used in Connecticut, the political conditions under which they were chosen, and their intended targets and expected effects on teacher quality and student learning. The purpose of the paper is to explain how the Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) and the Connecticut State Department…

The finding that young children do not prepare markers to help themselves relocate objects after a delay may have resulted from children's misunderstanding of the difficulty of unassisted retrieval. This study examined children's ability to recognize that they should prepare markers in two simplified object relocation tasks after they had been…

In this study, it was determined that the fatigue state of the learner had a favorable influence on both performance and learning of certain novel motor skills. (JS)

Internal verbal processes were assumed to play a central role in complex school learning tasks. The research reported was concerned with a certain class of internal verbal behavior. The implicit associative response (IAR) was conceptualized as an internal verbal response that may occur when an individual sees or hears a word. Results of four…

Blood serum uric acid and cholesterol levels in the blood were studied in relation to inner drive and external pressures of college students in the U.S.A. and in Sweden. Subjects for the study included 210 American and 78 Swedish male and female college students and 138 college football players. The blood chemicals were measured by Technicon…

A teaching load measurement formula seeks to equalize the load credit given to teachers of various kinds of classes (such as lectures, laboratories, physical education) in terms of number of preparations, course differences, class size, clerical assistance, student advising, committee work, and overload. The formula expresses each teacher's work…

It would appear that certain body types may be advantageous for championship performance in womens gymnastics. These body types are those with relative fat approaching that of the male, higher than average mesomorphy, and lower than average endomorphy. (MJB)

The author identifies cognitive learning styles of subjects who derived maximum knowledge from simulation game activities. (GW)

Effects of stress-producing conditions on 36 mentally retarded and 36 nonretarded persons (ages 20-53) before performing a counting task were measured. Contrary to stereotypes that predicted retarded subjects' performance would be more vulnerable to stress, results showed that mild but measurable levels of stress improved performance for both…

The profitability of 49 publicly owned companies that have won communications awards was compared to that of nonaward winning companies in the same industries. Results indicate that excellence in communication is an important factor in corporate profitability in that two out of three award winning companies outperformed in their industries. (JOW)

Compares the experience of developing educational indicators with the experience of developing indicators to measure economic performance. Discusses the similar problems in both sectors and explains reasons for differences. (RB)

In three experiments involving sets containing from 2z to 19 objects, preschool children gave the last counted word as the answer to the question "How many objects are there?" The relationship between children's answering with the last counted word to a how-many question and counting accurately varied with set size. (Author/RH)

Across three experiments involving four-, five-, and six-year-olds, the same pattern of ability to sequence events was found: familiar events in forward order were the easiest to sequence, then unfamiliar events in forward order, familiar events in backward order, and finally unfamiliar events in backward order. (Author/RH)