Current research and though regarding the relationship of individual difference (ID) factors to achievement in the basic skills is reviewed. Four major categories and nine subcategories of ID factors are defined and serve as the framework for the review: status factors (age, sex, and race, ethnic group, and socioeconomic status); intelligence…

The first volume of the Research Register contains summaries of published and unpublished educational research completed in Northern Ireland from 1949 to 1970. Its purpose is to provide nonevaluative summaries of relevant studies for use by researchers and teachers. Research topics focus on the history and philosophy of education, sociology and…

Developing the skills necessary to participate in academic discussions is an important goal in many programs of English for academic purposes. However, there has been little empirical investigation into how verbal and nonverbal aspects of discussion abilities might be developed. This paper reports the results of a semester-long effect of…

A whole-class model providing for student diversity through remediation and enrichment in small groups was compared with a two-group model accommodating diversity through fixed within-class ability groups. Higher mathematics achievement was found for the whole-class model in a study of 1,736 fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. (SLD)

Many learners, especially those in a foreign-language setting, draw on the classroom as their primary forum for using and experiencing the target language, still for the most part during teacher-led instruction. Nevertheless, communicative language teaching does not provide a decisive definition of "good language use." Teachers usually take an…

One aspect of the Alverno College (Wisconsin) teacher education program focuses on the critical treatment (critical revisioning) of popular approaches to teaching across lines of race, class, gender, culture, and power. To illustrate the development of prospective students' ability to think critically about such teaching, this discussion explores…

The many dimensions of individual differences that make each learner a challenge to the foreign language teacher are discussed. The teacher must interpret the information and provide differentiated environments to "match" these differences. Emphasis is placed upon learning styles and learning strategies. An historical perspective of adapting…

ADDRESSED TO TEACHERS, THE BOOK EMPHASIZES THE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES OF CHILDREN, ENCOURAGES PROBLEM SOLVING OR DIAGNOSTIC TEACHING, AND MAKES CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS OF CHILDREN WTH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES. THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL IN PROVIDING FOR EACH CHILD'S NEEDS IS DISCUSSED, AND SUGGESTIONS ARE GIVEN FOR MAKING THE CLASSROOM A…

This guide is designed for supervisors and trainers who are helping teachers of young children implement the Creative Curriculum for Early Childhood: a curriculum that is based on child development theory and is developmentally appropriate for preschool and kindergarten children. The guide gives particular emphasis to a carefully organized, rich…

A Head Start Program operating in Kansas City since 1965 was viewed as inadequate because enrollment was limited to about 600 children per year. The Model Cities Agency determined to provide a program for the remainder of the children in the Model Cities neighborhoods. The programs developed were differentiated administratively for the purposes of…

This is the first part of a four-part report on the second year of a project designed to help students with scholastic difficulties become successful in college, and either competent teachers or effective paraprofessional school personnel. The project was originally intended to extend over an 8- to 10-year period, but because of budget cuts it…

Appropriate for teachers of any grade who want to teach their students how to read and learn from text, this book explains how to develop and use strategies that will enable all students to read and learn in the content areas without stigmatizing them. The book is divided into four parts. The first part explains the changing role of the school and…

Brief analyses are provided of presentations at a conference, held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, which addressed questions and answers relating to research and education. Conference sessions explored the role of research in relation to educational practices with special focus on theory, research, issues, and application. Papers…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN CHILDREN FROM MANY COUNTRIES IS TRACED AND ILLUSTRATED. AFTER THE NATURAL DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL EXPRESSION IN CHILDREN IS REVIEWED, THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE CONSIDERED--INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS, SUBJECTS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN CHILDREN'S ART, SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DEVELOPMENT, AND THE…

This volume contains abstracts of the 374 technical reports issued by the Personnel Research Laboratory at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, from January 1954 through December 1965. They cover studies in selection, classification, and utilization of Air Force personnel; systematizing information flow in support of personnel planning; methods of…