The Adult Performance Level Test, a minimum competency test developed by the Texas Department of Education, measures student skill and knowledge levels in competencies necessary for successful living in a modern society. (MJB)

This study is concerned with how different modes of attention influence anticipatory reactivity and, in addition to investigating initial reactivity, examines the influence of attention upon habituation. (Author/RK)

Results of a number of experiments conforming to a particular paradigm have yielded a highly systematic relation between the probability that recallable words are not recognized and the probability of recognition of all words. This recognition failure is largely constant with many conditions that greatly affect both recognition and (cued) recall.…

The present investigation was conducted to determine if stimulus overselectivity in 19 autistic children (5 to 12 years old) is changed as a function of repeated exposure to testing. (Author/SBH)

EXPLORE is a flexible computer program for analyzing multiple data sets. The investigator has the option of focusing on the original variables, or of selecting a reduced rank solution where original variables are summarized by a principal components analysis. (Author/JKS)

Compares the rates of forgetting of five-item sequences of acoustically similar and dissimilar consonants and words in the absence of proactive and retroactive interference in order to test whether within sequence similarity rather than stimulus length would have a greater influence on retention. (Author/RK)

A model was proposed as an alternative to current models for categorical perception, which refers to the apparent responding to stimuli only in absolute terms. The model proposed that a single (common) factor causes both a peak in the discrimination function and a categorical dichotomy and thus the correlation between the two. (Editor/RK)

The effects of delaying an immediate test, a rehearsal opportunity, or a second presentation on long-term free recall were investigated in an experiment combining features of the Brown-Peterson and free-recall paradigms. A proposed model assumes that both repetitions and tests promote learning. (CHK)

Evaluates "Children and their Primary Schools: Report of the Central Advisory Council for Education" otherwise known as England's Plowden Report, ten years after its publication in order to learn what areas of the report show the most educational progress. (RK)

The WISC, Piagetian logico-mathematical and representational space tasks, the Frostig DTVP and a motor ability test were administered to elementary children at 3 age and arithmetic achievement levels to determine whether specific patterns of cognitive and/or spatial development were related to arithmetic achievement and whether patterns varied…

A program that is used to assist students in overcoming the deficiencies in basic skills in mathematics without making major changes in existing mathematics programs is described. (JT)

This study posits that social learning theory can explain development of structure in preadults' political attitudes better than the much-discussed "vulnerability" and "two-step" hypotheses. (Author)

Four alternatives to the traditional testing and grading procedures are described. (JT)

Last in a series, this article focuses on reporting and using the outcomes of the examination for the Nuffield Advanced Chemistry Project. Discusses accuracy, reliability and validity estimates, and curriculum validity; provides detailed information about student attainment. Roles of examinations in evaluation and development of school curricula…

Several teaching conditions were employed with weekly testing or midterm-final testing used in each. Academic performance of students was found to differ significantly as a function of both teaching conditions and testing methods. Post-course student evaluation was significantly different as a function of the two schedules. (Author/DEP)