It is the purpose of this paper to discuss one qualitative research method, participant observation, which describes and analyzes a setting based on data that has been laboriously and systematically collected and analyzed. (Author/RK)

This study describes an emerging sociological prototype and examines the degree to which urban stresses and conditions are absent or present and the manner in which they reveal themselves. (Author/RK)

An experimental program was developed for children in order to assess their self concept, anxiety, and relative degree of self-responsibility for school successes and failures. (Author/RK)

Study analyzed the results of a college rule regulating the maximum number of units students were allowed to carry and its effect on academic performance. (Author/RK)

Shows that substantial inequality of economic opportunity exists in the U.S. and that the educational system is a major vehicle for the transmission of economic status from one generation to the next. (RJ)

One purpose of this study was to examine computer-assisted instruction (CAI) performance in relation to certain individual difference variables and to help establish a basis for further research on this problem. (Author)

The addition in this study of both identical and similar test items did not influence the ability to recognize recurring characters. (Authors)

Purpose of study was to (a) compare the rate of increase of proactive interference over the first few trials under recall and recognition memory test conditions, (2) determine the effects of two types of distractors on short-term recognition, and (3) test memory after proactive interference had reached a stable level under each of three test…

A new hypothesis is proposed to account for both superior and equal performances under the study-test method as compared with the anticipation method. (Author)

Findings support the hypothesis that lateral preference, per se, has little effect on information-processing behaviors. (Authors)

Test is designed to provide an estimate of the elementary teacher's ability to write behavioral objectives. (Author)

This experiment compares the effects of six individual instructors on test performance and attitudes of their students. (Author/RY)

Vigilance performance of twenty fourth-grade retarded readers was compared with that of twenty normal readers matched for age, sex, grade, and intelligence. (Authors)