This essay identifies a set of research priorities that will enable those most responsible for U.S. higher education to shape the enterprise in more purposeful ways. The present discrepancy between ideals and realities makes it evident that higher education is less than it should be. The essay identifies three broad research priorities: (1)…

A study was undertaken to develop a better understanding of the students enrolled in intermediate algebra (Mathematics 108) at Boise State University, Idaho, and to uncover variables that predicted success in that course. Predictor variables were divided into preenrollment variables and course variables. Examining data for students enrolled in…

Developing a system of performance indicators is a critical facet in further implementation of the Illinois Commitment, the states higher education plan. The performance indicators are intended to measure how well the system of higher education is meeting the six major goals of the plan. This interim report presents information on the work of the…

Results are in general agreement with previous research indicating that self-monitoring can have a dramatic effect on certain behaviors. In the present study, those Ss who recorded their own frequencies of accurate responding maintained their review efforts significantly longer than Ss who did not self-monitor. (Author)

Study of causes of poor performance not correctable by training is an example of the non-training problems trainers were expected to solve. (Author/RK)

Study compared three item arrangements on a classroom test: arrangement by subject matter, arrangement by ascending order of difficulty, and arrangement by ascending order of difficulty within subject-matter subtests. (Authors/CB)

The results indicate that high-approval-motivated Ss were significantly more accurate in their expectancy ratings than low-approval-motivated Ss, and were significantly lower in their numerical estimates than low-approval-motivated Ss. (Author)

The hypothesis that a person stutters because he believes in the difficulty of speech, anticipates failure, and struggles to avoid it, is said to be consistent with experimental findings on the metronome effect, the adaptation effect, the effects of white noise and delayed auditory feedback, and operant control of stuttering. (Author/GW)

Article provides administrators and teachers with checklists which may be used for evaluating inservice programs. (Author/CB)

Describes a diagnostic teaching performance instrument (TAI) that gives the teacher, the teacher educator, or the supervisor concrete evidence of what the teacher has learned, or needs to learn, and what he is able to apply correctly in the classroom. (Author/MF)

Support for the operation of internal factors in cognitive development was provided by an obtained increase from first to second posttest scores. Two conservations were considered to be involved--conservation of the whole and of the part. (Author)

A report of the construction and analysis of a forced choice measure of performance behavior effectiveness of attendants in hospitals for the mentally retarded was made. (Author)

Results of this study provided indirect support for Marshall's (1965) Hypothesis with regard to the informational versus motivational properties of punishment (punishment of specific responses has discriminative or informative value, whereas punishment applied to the situation may have primary motivational value). (Author)