The effects of two types of self-determined reinforcement contingencies on children's test performances were investigated and compared to each other and to externally determined contingencies. Suggested that self-management that includes self-determined contingencies of reinforcement procedures may provide useful techniques. (Author)

Evaluation of students' dance performance provides feedback for developing skills and self-awareness. (JD)

The study investigated the influence of intertrial interval duration on the performance of three autistic children (ages 2 to 12) during teaching situations. The results showed that the short intertrial intervals always produced higher levels of correct responding than the long intervals. (Author/PHR)

This evaluation study illustrates several ways of measuring post-training job performance, a variety of measurement problems, and the impact of evaluation upon administrative decisions. Measurement problems are discussed in terms of six dimensions. (Author)

The interrogative strategies of 20 institutionalized mentally retarded young adults and 38 nonretarded first and fourth graders were investigated using a 20-questions-type task. (Author)

The article identifies three approaches for the study of braille reading, describes some examples of the approaches, and makes some suggestions for future research. (Author/PHR)

A study of the behavior of sixth graders tutoring younger children indicated that the tutors' verbal and nonverbal behavior tended to reflect the performance of the tutee. (Editor/JD)

A study of Australian students from six ethnic groups supports the idea that if children from different cultural groups have distinct patterns of cognitive scores, they also have distinct patterns of family learning environments. (Editor)

To test the effect of psychomotor warm-up activity on creative thinking the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (Activity 3, Figural B) were administered to two groups of 49 second graders. (PHR)

A study in the performance of female basketball players indicates that the best players are taller, heavier, and larger than slighter competitors. (JD)

Physical characteristics such as height, weight, and muscular development have less influence on quality of swimming performance than actual practice and hard work. (JD)

Test results of 915 high school students taking a history examination with a choice of topics show that students were generally able to pick the topic on which they could get the highest score. Implications for fair scoring when topic choice is allowed are discussed. (SLD)

To examine the magnitude of situational constraint "bias," 30 juniors, seniors, and graduate students were asked to assess situational constraints and performance for up to 5 instructors. Results indicated that this bias is considerably stronger than previous reports had indicated and may be the dominant source of fairness in performance…

Younger and older American and Chinese adults were given arithmetic, perceptual speed, and spatial orientation tests. Younger adults showed substantial performance advantages over older adults. Performance of older American and Chinese adults was comparable on all ability measures. Overall pattern suggests that the advantage of Chinese adults over…

Clause, syllable, and response latency characteristics of conversational utterances were assessed in 14 boys who stuttered and 14 normally fluent boys. Findings suggest that changes in the number of clausal constituents that must be constructed, stored, or coordinated within an utterance may influence the likelihood of speech errors and, hence,…