Relates the use of study guides and academic achievement. (JS)

White society makes the white man's presence a source of anxiety to many blacks, generates role prescriptions for blacks' behavior, produces black hostility and white prejudice that create distance between blacks and whites. Further in-depth research is needed to identify precise effects of radical encounters and attitudes. (Author/JB)

Paper drawn from a doctoral dissertation completed under the direction of Dorothy Sherman. (JJ)

Article describes new materials testing laboratory course which introduces the student to fundamental concepts of experimentation. (IR)

The study concludes that nonstandard examiner behavior of the type studied can increase the scores of some students. Students' percentile ranks and grade equivalent can change solely as a function of examiner behavior. (Author)

The Dallas Public Library and Southern Methodist University have joined forces to aid College-Level Examination Program learning center. (Editor)

The article concludes that adequate screening, and the use of expensive diagnostic procedures (such as medical referral) only for children who have failed a screening test, will result in the most effective use of school health time and funds. (Author)

Report of a new, first-year, French-language course at the University of Keele, England. (DS)

This article defines four types of student evaluation: placement, formative, diagnostic, and summative, and indicates the multiplicity of evaluative roles and techniques applicable to evaluating students. We must conceive of evaluation as involving a much broader role than simply grading student achievement at the end of instruction. (Author)