A principal purpose of this paper is to report systematic data in support of an hypothesized association between noise stress and subsequent behavior. Penetration of traffic sounds into the home was considered as it impaired the child's ability to learn verbal skills. (Author/RK)

Author reviews Student Use of Unscheduled Time,'' by Walter J. Foley, Gordon C. Harr, and Larry Smiley (Iowa Educational Information Center), and Comparing Block Scheduling and Traditional Scheduling on Student Achievement and Attitudes,'' by Adrian P. Van Mondrans, James L. Schott, and Denny G. French (paper presented at the convention of the…

Purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of behavioral objectives, criterion evaluation, and remediation upon the classroom progress of disruptive adolescents. (Authors)

A single administration of the reversal learning paradigm is not a sufficient basis for determining either a given subject's choice of option or his behavior on its constituent learning measures. This conclusion raises many questions about past research relating to mediation theory, since this paradigm has been the basic one employed. (Authors)

Analyses revealed consistent support for the hypothesis that number conservation is developmentally prior to liquid quantity conservation. (Authors)

The data indicated that disadvantaged children required more time to process visual information than did middle-class children, but the processing speed for the 2 groups tended to become more similar as grade level was increased. (Author)

Describes the Pittsburgh Public School System's Division of Computer Services established in 1968 to develop computer applications to provide reliable, timely, and accurate information for all phases of the school system. (Author)

The results fail to support the hypothesis that intersensory integration is the sole or even the primary developmental skill accounting for matching task improvement with increasing age. The hypothesis that retarded readers fail to develop skills in intersensory integration is also not supported. (Authors)

Results of this study reinforce Kagan's postulation of reflection-impulsivity as a dimension of cognitive style which influences performance on a wide variety of reading-like tasks. (Authors)

Article assesses the value of prescribing two commonly used tranquilizers in relieving students of examination anxiety. (Author/RK)

Results show that the retarded group was significantly more cooperative than the nonretarded group, and the 6-7 year retarded group was more cooperative than the 11-12-year retarded group. (Authors/CB)

Author suggests that the challenges to pupil personnel services are increasing and changing, and believes services have to understand the direction of those challenges. (Author)

Considers the implications of administrative accountability, the need for self-evaluation, and the desire to determine relationships between processes used and outcomes produced for recent approaches to collecting evaluation data. (Author/EA)

This study was conducted in an attempt to ascertain attitudinal factors associated with the extent to which an Educational Improvement Center was able to stimulate local initiative and innovation. (Author/RK)

One of a series of studies of how children come to name their feelings. For Parts I and III see PS 501 987 and PS 502 002. (MB)