Many students read below grade level and have problems reading their core textbooks. Presented are five techniques secondary teachers can use to improve their students' reading skills. (MD)

This study compares an entire population (78) of high school discipline problem students with a control group of students who were not involved in acts of misconduct. Significant differences were found to exist in intelligence, scholastic achievement, scholastic abilities, vocational aptitude, and personality characteristics in elementary school.…

It is sometimes assumed that students (a) know which questions they will be best at answering in an examination, and (b) know how well they have performed after completing an examination. These hypotheses were tested for 50 dental students who completed a six-question essay examination in Human Physiology and Pharmacology. (Editor/RK)

This study examined a program to improve the academic success and retention of student athletes at a target community college in central Illinois. The problem of academic success and retention was identified through use of document analysis, surveys, and interviews. Analysis of probable cause data revealed that varied perceptions of student…

Each year, thousands of students graduate high school academically unprepared for college. As a result, approximately one-third of entering postsecondary students require remedial or developmental work before entering college-level courses. However, little is known about the causal impact of remediation on student outcomes. At an annual cost of…

Research indicates that the frequency of cheating in the classroom is increasing accelerating. Students continue to utilize the standard methods of cheating such as cheat sheets, copying off of another student's test paper, or telling friends in the next class period what was covered on an exam. With access to the World Wide Web, opportunities to…

A study was conducted to see whether peer effects could be observed among 102 undergraduates at Williams College, an elite four-year liberal arts school. The study explored whether students in the bottom third of their class, with average Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores of about 1300, would perform better in writing about newspaper…

This study attempts to determine whether several types of reading disabilities might be discernible in the Diagnostic Reading Profiles of Learning Disabled (LD) Pupils. A secondary purpose is to evaluate the Stanford Diagnostic Reading Test in relation to the assessment of the reading difficulties of LD students. (Author)

Many factors contribute to slow reading. Basic business educators must become aware of the range of student reading rates in their classroom and take the differences into consideration when making assignments. The assistance of a reading specialist is recommended. (AG)

Presents a multivariate change model in which changes in ability factor scores (cognitive structure) and factor loadings (task structure) provide the theoretical underpinnings for the transfer process. (RJ)

Report from the Anglo-American conference of sixty scientists at Wycombe, England. (RJ)

Reports the results of a survey based on the Commonwealth Secondary Scholarship Examination (C.S.S.E.). Freshman students at Flinders University (South Australia) were sampled, and results indicated that students from non-government schools performed better, and hence were more able, than those who came from government schools. (JR)

Examines the emphasis in our culture which is placed on intelligence as measured by educational tests and suggests four possibilities to prevent an educational aristocracy. (RB)

Discusses the problem that quite often unusually qualified personnel from the academic standpoint are unprepared for administrative positions and can only solve these problems by way of the trying school of experience and its attendant mistakes. The author offers a system to develop various abilities to achieve solution of this problem. (EK)