The present study was an attempt to investigate the specific form of the relationship of persistence to academic performance, with a consideration of the information-processing value of persistence. (Author)

This study is an examination of the environmental forces and curriculum involvement in open and closed classroom settings. (Author)

The major purpose of this study was to compare the achievement of junior college introductory poetry students instructed by modular materials with those instructed by the traditional method, using the criteria of poetry achievement. (Author)

The present study was undertaken to explore the influence of language (Chinese or English), meaningfulness, and mode of stimulus presentation on serial learning. (Author/RK)

Presents reasons for accepting alternative modes of education that might help students to escape perceptual traps and limitations to human potential and growth. (JR)

Study was concerned only with the impact of tutoring on the tutor's learning and attempted to determine whether tutors cognitively restructure the material in anticipation of teaching it to someone else. (Author/RK)

Study investigated the nature of elementary teachers' priorities of behaviorally stated objectives of instruction and the practice of these priorities in the classroom. (Author)

Systems analysis, in this context, is not the process which is the necessary prelude to library automation; it is something more basic. It involves seeking out the fundamentals of a situation and applying scientific methods to their study, to find an optimal solution to the problems facing the manager. (20 references) (Author/TW)

Author reviews five articles of the second section of Philosophical Redirection of Educational Research'' and he concerns himself not only with philosophic interest but also the impact each article will have on those involved in educational research. (Author/RK)

Insecticides should not be the only weapons of war used against pests; in addition to them, a strategy aimed at winning the millenial warfare should combine the tactical use of natural plant enemies, reinforced plant genetic qualities, and the application of adequate ecological techniques. (BL)

This study attempted to test the relationship between optimal total heterophily and communication effectiveness, to identify relevant dimensions of homophily/heterophily in achieving communication effectiveness, and to demonstrate a method for measuring source-receiver heterophily, as well as examining their relationship to the communication…

Summary and discussion of the experience of teaching a reading knowledge of German to Spanish-speaking students of linguistics and literary criticism. (RS)

Special issue on translation. (VM)