In 1988, Congress mandated a national longitudinal evaluation of the effects of the Title I program on students' academic achievement and classroom behavior. This paper presents an overview of the study design, analysis methods, and impact results for student achievement. The analysis used four types of designs to assess the impact of Title I: (1)…

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, the description of a research plan for a large-scale computer adaptive testing program migrating from a network to Internet version is presented. The general areas needed in such a research plan include: (1) comparability studies; (2) psychometric analyses; (3) development projects; (4) validity…

The present experiments were designed to assess retroaction and proaction effects where more than one interpolated (RI) or prior (PI) passage is learned and to determine if results are the same for eighth-grade science material as for biographies similar to those used by Crouse. (Author/RK)

After speed-reading partisans questioned the criticisms in a Psychology Today article, another psychologist conducted a controlled study of speed readers. As we said before, "Speed Readers Don't Read; They Skim". (Editor)

This article examines educational policy as it relates to the political socialization of children and the utilization of available research on the topic. (Editor)

Purpose of study was to determine how students evaluated the affective behavior of their teacher when that behavior reflected positive, neutral, and negative affect, respectively. (Author)

The central purposes of this study were to discover whether musically unsophisticated seventh grade pupils could be taught to keep track of the unfolding forms of unfamiliar minuets and movements in sonata-allegro form, and the extent to which successful tracking is related to the observation of briefer musical elements. (Author)

An examination of the weaknesses of the common statistical approaches suggests that change scores are unnecessary and often even inappropriate for statistical studies. Alternative statistical procedures are suggested. (Author/VW)

Article, written by members of the graduate seminar entitled Empirical Studies in Communication" at the University of Colorado, presumes that research in communication is a part of a process directed toward the formulation of an adequate explanation of human communication behavior. (Author/DR)