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)

After attending a rural compensatory preschool for 5 half days a week over 1 year, Australian aboriginal and white disadvantaged children, 5 to 6 years of age, showed substantial gains on tests of vocabulary, auditory association, grammtic closure, and operational thinking, and were later assessed in a followup study. (Author/MC)

The National Technical Institute for the Deaf has conducted five student interpreter training programs to train interpreters for deaf college students. (DB)

Part of a special issue, "Materialien zur Rechtschreinbung und ihrer Reform" (Materials on Orthography and Its Reform). (DD)

Discusses the role of examinations in science education and questions the nature of many of the assumptions that underlie examination reform in Britain. (JR)

Revision of testing and grading procedures implemented in a German course at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. (RS)

The dissimilarity between the black and the white voices failed to affect the IQ scores of black children, but it appeared to be an important variable with regard to the IQ test performance of white children. (Author)