The effect of attitudes toward mathematics-related coursework, previous mathematics coursework, student sex, spatial ability, and masculinity-femininity of interest pattern on statistics achievement were studied in 188 graduate students. Sex-related differences were found in mathematics attitude, spatial visualization, and achievement in the…

Evidence on the impact of noncognitive factors on the cognitive performance of young and older adults is reviewed. Cohort-associated modifiers, motive states, task and measurement factors, and environmental effects are related and account for age differences in cognitive performance. Areas of research pertinent to educational psychologists are…

Learning is greatly facilitated if its intended outcomes are clear to both learner and teacher, if they are appropriate to the purpose of the instruction, and if the path to them has been marked out clearly. Myths and obstacles to achieving better processes of teaching and learning are discussed. (Author/MLW)

A performance measure analysis process developed by the Competency Based Education Committee of the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy to assess the status of the measurement of student performance is described. A taxonomy of levels of learning is appended. (Author/MLW)

Summarizes a study of several types of consulting groups in the Bell System and describes characteristics which are associated with high-impact consulting. A strategy which is designed for internal consulting organizations to maximize the likelihood of both initial success and long-term survival of the group is proposed. (Author/MER)

In a study involving ten educable mentally retarded young adults and adults, reaction times to inside stimuli in an eight choice task decreased for some Ss when the response ensemble was concealed. (Author/CL)

The effectiveness of different rates of working with programed materials was examined in children, ages 8 through 11. The group working 40-minute periods had the highest attainment level among all groups. (Best copy available in microfiche). (Author/MH)

To estimate correlation between motivation and achievement, correlations from a calibration sample of 22 studies and a validation sample of 18 studies were analyzed using analysis of variance and regression techniques. Grade level was the only significant student characteristic; motivation and achievement were more highly correlated in later…

Findings showed an almost even percentage of boys and girls, that more girls had fathers with doctorate degrees, that girls' arithmetic and spatial abilities were not significantly different from boys', that girls increased or decreased in IQ more than boys in high school, and that boys' IQs and grade point averages were significantly correlated…

Compliance, identification, internalization, and expectancy are delineated and defined as three conscious and one nonconscious reaction to social influence. Discussion centers on the implications of each reaction in terms of a classroom environment wherein teacher and students influence each other and are subject to the pressures of public…

Finds that extraverted children did better than introverted children on both a nonverbal coding task and simple and complex verbal fluency tasks. Notes that anxiety influenced girls' performances on the more complex verbal fluency task, but did not alter boys' performances. Compares these findings to those of similar studies of adults. (RL)

The Matrices and Order of Appearance subtests of a Piagetian test battery were administered to a sample of second-grade children on two occasions under two test conditions: standardized testing and a dialogue between child and examiner. Differences for test condition and time of testing were found. (JKS)

Matched samples of Mexican American and Anglo children with learning difficulty referrals were compared on WISC-R subtest performance. The Mexican Americans scored significantly lower on Similarities, Arithmetic, and Picture Completion. Their Verbal and Performance IQ score discrepancies suggest that the major educational problem of this group is…

Compares the nonverbal intellectual performance as measured by the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices of Chicano and Anglo third-grade boys. When language status and cultural content of the testing instrument are controlled, mean group differences become negligible. This is a sound intelligence measure for use with Chicano children. (Author)

Using critical incidents, faculty ratings of graduate student performance in departments of chemistry, English, and psychology were collected. Separate factor analyses in each field produced eight fairly consistent factors with respect to item loadings across fields. Faculty ratings of each incident with respect to its importance for success were…