Item statistics between illustrated and written items drawn from the same content areas were compared using F ratios. The results indicated: that illustrated items performed slightly better than matched written items; and that the best performing category of illustrated items was tables. (Author/BB)

It has been suggested than an educational curriculum should include training in working with people as well as with ideas. Measuring and conceptualizing "social intelligence has been difficult, however. Although the idea of social intelligence has a long history, most tests which have been proposed to measure such ability correlate highly…

Twenty children (10 from a Day Care Center and 10 from a Head Start Center) were administered a 28-item, parallel form language comprehension task. The method utilized concrete materials (i.e., puppets and other familiar objects, spoon, flower, ball) which subjects manipulated when presented with sentences of 7 different grammatical constructions.…