Counselors without teaching experience were compared with counselors from the same graduate counselor education program with teaching experience and with other first-year counselors raters had known on each of five dimensions. It was concluded that teaching experience does not seem to be necessary for the preparation of competent school…

This study indicates that a period of positive prior contact between a child subject and an adult experimenter may result in a relative decrease in performance for material reward dispensed by that adult experimenter. (Authors)

On the assumption that vividness reports and recall were both mediated by the same covert event - a visual image - these results provide further evidence that images have an important role in memory. (Author)

Study of language used in multiple choice test showed that verbal complexity of questions had little or no effect on their actual difficulty; if a student knows the content, he can also read well enough to understand the test item. (SP)

The present experiment involved a manipulation of the cognitive or associative meaning of a play object. (Authors)

Five studies were reported in which the magnitude of the influence of word length upon the loci of instances of disfluency in the oral reading of 132 stutterers and 141 nonstutterers was investigated. (Author/DB)

Presents information about the qualities needed for success in owning and operating a small business. (MF)

The notion that response bias may spuriously influence categorical judgments on discrimination tasks with unequal response alternatives was investigated using the Wepman Auditory Discrimination Test. (Author)

Study asks whether laboratory findings, that isolation of an item facilitates its recall, extend to formal educational settings. (Authors)

Significant differences in retention test scores were not found to be associated with the presence versus the absence of confirmation during program administration. (Authors)

This study demonstrated that it is possible to determine the relationship between factors in a factor analysis and variables external to the analysis itself. The primary result was to show that the general factor in WAIS intelligence is impaired by brain damage. (Author)

Pupil personnel workers must understand not only children, but children in a school setting, and their common base should be an understanding of, and experience with, the educative process. (Author)