Methods of teaching psychology to college students are discussed. (CK)

Summarizes the past contributions of the Buros Institute to the counseling and psychology communities, and previews the emergence of a more timely and responsive array of products and services. Contends that, as the psychological community continues through the 1990s, the Buros Institute will continue to provide clinicians, practitioners, and…

Discusses the use of tests and assessment in person-centered counseling. In person-centered counseling, the most fundamental value is honoring the client as the authority on his or her own life. The extreme focus on the "self-authority" tends to militate against the use of tests and assessment. Person-centered counseling includes unsystematic…

Discusses the dynamic assessment of information-processing ability by detailing development, standardization, and preliminary validation of Cognitive Processing Test (S-CPT). Presents information pertaining to development and standardization of psychometric properties. Discusses problems and advantages of measures. (Author/JDM)

This commentary focuses on the papers by Nurmi and Aunola and by Spinath and Spinath. I discuss the difficulty in testing the hypothesis that ability self concepts influence developmental changes in learning and task motivation. I point to the following concerns: (1) the difficulty in conceptualizing and then measuring these concepts well; (2) the…

This article critically examines and integrates previous research in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic assessment. Issues that apply to the assessment of Latinos who speak both Spanish and English are examined. For ease of presentation, testing concerns with this population are divided into 3 broad areas: client issues, test issues, and…

Intended both to evaluate the California testing program's success in assessing student achievement in the basic skills and to suggest possible improvements in the program, this report includes an executive summary evaluating current testing procedures, describing experimental studies on new ways of testing and reporting testing information, and…

The purpose of this study was to determine the affects of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on Family and Consumer Science (FACS) program sustainment in the state of Arizona. FACS programs were not addressed in the NCLB mandates, but are part of the Arizona secondary education programming. FACS programs had seen a decrease in the number of…

The purpose of this mixed method study was to compare current practices of athletic trainers in the management of concussion in football at California Community Colleges (CCC) with the concussion management guidelines set forth by the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). The study also set out to gain understanding of why some athletic…

The purpose of this action research case study was to explore attitudes and beliefs regarding strategies to improve math placement scores for low-socioeconomic community college students at an urban campus. Using a pragmatic worldview, qualitative techniques were used to gather data to explore this problem at a single community college located in…

Purpose: The "electrolarynx (EL)" is a widely used device for alaryngeal speech, but it requires manual operation and produces voice that typically has a constant fundamental frequency. An electromyographically controlled EL (EMG-EL) was designed and implemented to provide hands-free control with dynamic pitch modulation. Method: Three…

The Distance-Education Testing Center at Greenville Technical College uses both traditional and technology-based exam protocols. It serves as an outstanding example of how automated testing opportunities are being successfully provided to thousands of "virtual campus" students who have elected to engage in e-learning as an alternative to…

Four experiments are described in which 1 visual object (the target) was selected from another (the distractor) according to its color (Experiments 1, 2, and 4) or its relative location (Experiment 3) and then was classified according to a simple geometric property. Object classification was signaled as fast as possible by a precision or power…

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is due to the silencing of a single X-linked gene and it is associated with striking attentional difficulties. As FXS is well characterised at the cellular level, the condition provides a unique opportunity to investigate how a genetic dysfunction can impact on the development of neurocomputational properties relevant to…