Discussed is is acceleration as a method of educating elementary age gifted children in New York City's special progress classes. (DB)

A follow-up study of public vocational school graduates revealed that the graduates successfully obtained jobs. Among the factors deemed important by both graduates and employer, communication skills were mentioned as vital. Counseling and preparation in getting along with others were perceived by graduates as inferior. Adjustment to an 8 hour…

There are many arguments for and against the use of i.t.a. to teach reading and writing. This article reviews 47 studies which measure the spelling of children taught by i.t.a. and t.o. (traditional orthography) in grades one, two, and three. (Editor)

Results supported other researchers' findings that the Engineer scale on the SVIB is no longer an adequate measure of engineers' interests. (Author)

Study results indicated that the supervisees of high level supervisors continued to function more effectively on the measured dimensions than the supervisees of low level supervisors, and that the supervisees of neither the high level supervisors nor the low level supervisors tended to change significantly on the measured dimensions. (Author)

H. Corman and S. Escalona's scales for object permanence and spatial relationships were readministered to 71 severely and profoundly mentally retarded individuals (mean age 19 years) five years after the last previous administration of the scales. Gains in mean scores were small but statistically significant for both scales. (Author)

A follow-up study of 10 pupils five to six years after their enrollment in a special learning disabilities (LD) program is reported. The results suggest that substantial academic deficits in the elementary grades do not preclude successful high school experiences for LD pupils. (Author)

The Minnesota Couple Communication Program had a positive effect on the couple's use of open-style communication and on perceived quality of the couple's relationship immediately after training. Only the positive changes in perceived quality of relationship persisted at the follow-up. (Author)

Ninety-eight children and their parents from the same metropolitan population as a 1966 study participated in an evaluation of the condition of hearing aids. The new data indicated little improvement in the maintenance or wearing time of hearing aids since the earlier study. (Author)

Results indicate that 57 percent of the family therapy group were rehospitalized at the end of three years compared to 20 percent of the individual therapy group. Longer-term findings suggest a superior effect of individual over family therapy. (Author)

Rating-related dimensions led to narrow encodings, thus hindering low-anxiety subjects who normally encode broadly. Even explicit ratings of unrelated dimensions did not induce high-anxiety subjects to encode more broadly, which may indicate inflexibility in deploying memory strategies. (Author)