It was hypothesized that providing appraisal data to students would influence their knowledge of abilities, and thereby facilitate achievement test performance. The teacher would also have a greater awareness of student talents and would facilitate student performance on tests. The sample consisted of a random sampling of seventh grade students.…

ERIC abstracts on performance objectives, announced in RIE through October 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "educational objectives,""performance criteria," and "performance factors." The following information is presented for each document: author, title, place of publication, publisher, publication date,…

A study was designed to test the effects of the presence of age-mates on the preacademic performance of socially unresponsive, disadvantaged preschool children. Each of four low performing male subjects was confronted with three high performing male and three low performing male peers. Of the peers in each of the two performance groups, one was…

Twenty four educable retarded males (eight gainers, eight non-gainers, and eight high scorers) were given an 18-item picture paired-associates task. Results showed that gainers learned more slowly than high scorers but the two groups together did not differ from nongainers. The following two interpretations were offered. With a minimal memory…

Transactional dialogues and concomitance in syntactic and aesthetic ordering were studied in 32 deaf students during 12 weeks of art classes meeting three days a week for periods of 1 hour each. The dialogues were said to have accomplished a gradual take over of mind-to-mind communication in lieu of both authority and childing. Findings indicated…

In this study of the interaction between anxiety trait (A-trait), anxiety state (A-state), and dogmatism in computer-assisted instruction (CAI), subjects were selected on the basis of extreme scores on a measure of anxiety and on a measure of dogmatism. The subjects were presented with a CAI task consisting of difficult mathematical problems. The…

This paper reviews research on the success of Upward Bound students and the performance of disadvantaged students in college. An examination of more than 20 Upward Bound studies tends to show that slight gains in motivational readiness for college were registered. Upward Bound students appear to enter college at a higher rate (80%) than the…

A State Curiosity Scale (SCS) was developed to be a self-reporting measure of a student's level of specific epistemic curiosity aroused by learning materials. The state of epistemic curiosity was conceptualized as a transitory emotional or motivational condition of the student, the arousal level of which was expected to vary across time, both with…

This study sought to test the interpretation that high test anxiety subjects performed more poorly on difficult material because they divided their attention between personally relevant and task relevant concerns to a greater degree than did low anxiety individuals. It was reasoned that such division of attention ought to require more time for…

This is a working document of instruments for the identification of Pre-Kindergarten, High-Risk children. The intent of the table and bibliography is to create an awareness of available instruments and their components rather than to assess their effectiveness. The components that are listed in the table were all found within test manuals. The…

The effects of 2 different types of positive and negative instances in learning "non-dimensioned" concepts were investigated. "Non-dimensioned" concepts are defined only by the presence or absence of distinct attributes. One-hundred-seventy-one 8th graders were given series of all positive or alternating positive and negative instances. Series of…

Contributions of rule, attribute, and complete learning to solution of low (conjunctive) and high (conditional) level concept attainment problems were assessed in 2 experiments. Direct learning and transfer of models was compared with vicarious learning and transfer of observers. Subjects in the latter condition observed yoked models solve the…

Eighty-two 5 to 8 year old children (I.Q. range 79-120) exhibiting learning disabilities were divided equally into three groups on the basis of their Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Verbal I.Q. (VIQ) and Performance I.Q. (PIQ) scores: a high performance-low verbal group, a verbal equal to performance group, and a high verbal-low…

This study was planned to replicate and extend at a fifth grade level an earlier study by Brophy and Good at the first grade level. One purpose was to test the hypothesis that classes taught by teachers who showed evidence of expectation effects would show polarization over time, with differences between high and low expectation students gradually…

At a time when many agencies are suffering a cutback in funds, and money for new and innovative programs is limited, the use of more paraprofessionals in the helping professions can be very important. Professionals and administrators involved in program planning should carefully assess the contribution of paraprofessionals to the program. By using…