The Spanish Picture Vocabulary Test was designed to provide a Spanish-language translation of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test which would be suitable for Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican school-children in New York City. The 300 stimulus words were translated according to a consensus of linguists and persons of Puerto Rican descent, and were…

The 1979 Nationwide Teacher Opinion Poll conducted by the National Education Association was sent to 2,148 of the nation's approximately 2,185,000 public school teachers. The response rate to the poll was 82.7 percent. In this report the analysis of the responses are grouped according to the following topical areas: (1) teacher demographics; (2)…

The author presents his view that the public has not been well informed about the limitations of college entrance examinations. Several educational trends are discussed: (1) since World War II, college admissions testing has underscored the classic American tension between egalitarianism and meritocracy; (2) more students have aspired to attend…

The Minister's Advisory Committee on Student Achievement (MACOSA) of Alberta, Canada studied student achievement in grades 3, 6, 9, and 12. Students were tested in reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies (grade 12 only). Tests were based upon cognitive objectives considered to be important to the curriculum, and results were to…

The reading comprehension tests, one for nine-year-olds usually in grade 3 and one for thirteen-year-olds usually in grade 7, were developed from released items on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The tests were constructed to assess student achievement against a national norm, by comparing individual student scores to the national…

One hundred fifty-one urban ninth grade students participated in an investigation of the effect of differentiated content in two congruent tests of reading. A congruent test was constructed by substituting information relevant to junior high school students within the parameters of a nonrelevant, standardized state test of reading. By maintaining…

THIS MANUAL DESCRIBES MEASURES USED IN "THE COGNITIVE ENVIRONMENTS OF URBAN PRE-SCHOOL CHILDREN" PROJECT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO. THE SAMPLE FOR THE STUDY CONSISTED OF 163 NEGRO MOTHER-CHILD PAIRS SELECTED FROM 3 SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSES BASED ON THE FATHER'S OCCUPATION AND THE PARENTS' EDUCATION. A FOURTH GROUP INCLUDED FATHER-ABSENT…

THE STIMULATION OF BRIGHT UNDERACHIEVERS WAS THE GOAL OF A PROJECT CONDUCTED IN NINE FLORIDA HIGH SCHOOLS WITH A SAMPLE OF 44 EXPERIMENTAL AND 40 CONTROL GROUP STUDENTS. BRIGHT UNDERACHIEVERS WERE DEFINED AS STUDENTS WHO HAD SCORED ABOVE THE 75TH PERCENTILE ON THE SCHOOL AND COLLEGE ABILITY TEST IN THE NINTH GRADE, BUT WHOSE GRADES AVERAGED…

THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THIS EXPERIMENT WAS TO DETERMINE WHETHER HIERARCHICALLY DIFFERENTIATED GROUPS WERE AS PRODUCTIVE ON PROBLEM-SOLVING TASKS AS HIERARCHICALLY UNDIFFERENTIATED GROUPS. THE EXPERIMENT ALSO INVESTIGATED THE EFFECTS OF FORMALLY BASED STATUS DIFFERENCES ON GROUP EFFICIENCY AND RISK-TAKING. TWENTY GROUPS CONTAINING FOUR SUBJECTS…

THIS MONOGRAPH, VIEWING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AS A POLITICAL ENTITY, DEVOTES ATTENTION TO BOTH ADMINISTRATIVE AND COMMUNITY PROBLEMS WHICH ARISE IN CONNECTION WITH SCHOOL DISTRICT REORGANIZATION. FOR EXAMPLE, ONE CONSEQUENCE OF REORGANIZATION IS THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE LARGER EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM REQUIRES CHANGES WHICH EITHER THE…

THE EDUCATION IMPROVEMENT PROJECT (EIP) IS A 5-YEAR EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAM FOR ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN RANGING IN AGE FROM INFANCY TO 14 YEARS. THE INITIAL PHASE OF EIP CONSISTS OF INFANT TESTING WHICH BEGINS AT BIRTH. DATA ON INTELLIGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT FROM THIS PHASE OF THE PROGRAM SHOW THAT AMONG THESE CHILDREN THE…

THIS OUTLINE DISCUSSES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW TELEVISION-BASED SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN SAMOA. AFTER LISTING 12 MAJOR PROBLEMS IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AS OF 1961, THE OUTLINE RAISES POLICY QUESTIONS AND REPORTS ON A PROPOSAL TO APPLY EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY TO THESE PROBLEMS. THE DISCUSSION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM IS BROKEN DOWN…

A THIRD AND FINAL PHASE OF A THREE-PHASE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE PROGRAM WAS COMPLETED DURING THE SUMMER OF 1967. THIS "CHILD STUDY" SERVICE WAS CARRIED OUT IN THE HEAD START CENTERS OF THE DELTA REGION OF SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. THE CHILDREN ATTENDING THE HEAD START PROGRAM WERE ABOUT EQUALLY REPRESENTED BY CAUCASIANS AND NEGROES. AN AVERAGE…

A research project carried out by the Southwestern Cooperative Educational Laboratory attempted to define and describe characteristic learning styles and related environmental factors of children of 2 minority groups in the Southwest. Students of Spanish American and Indian descent were subjected to specific tests, and comparative analyses were…

To describe and compare the psychosensory functioning of normal children and children with specific learning disabilities, 62 learning disabled and 68 normal children were studied. Each child was given a battery of thirteen subtests on an automated psychosensory system representing various combinations of auditory and visual intra- and…