An experimental design with experimental and control groups was used to evaluate the effect of a diagnostic structured kindergarten program upon the predicted reading levels of low income area children. The effect was compared with the effect of the traditional kindergarten program. The effects of the two curricula upon the total group of children…

An explanation for the failure of technology and computer-assisted instruction (CAI) in particular to make much headway in education is that even when innovations are introduced in the classroom, their potentials are not exploited; rather, they are used in traditional ways. The integration of new technologies with other classroom activities is…

A review of the literature that examined the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) profiles of retarded readers indicates that the populations studied and the criteria used for selection of retarded readers varied greatly from study to study. Rather than concluding that no WISC profile exists for individual retarded readers, researchers…

Describes a self-paced instruction design for a university introduction to psychology course and presents factors which caused the course to fail. Concludes that a significant number of undergraduate students are incompetent and do not possess study skills necessary for a self-paced course. (KC)

Thirty-two member groups of college females competed in competition sessions, one cooperative and one noncooperative. Group success-failure feedback was manipulated so that each group was successful in one session, unsuccessful in the other. Successful teams reported higher perceived ability, greater satisfaction, and lower state anxiety than the…

Discusses some of the deleterious results that school desegregation has had for Black children. (Author/AM)

This article assesses the impact of collaborative activity between universities/colleges and public schools in Boston, now in its third full year of operation since the 1975 federal court order desegregating the public schools. (Author/AM)

For the hundreds of thousands of minority children contained in the urban schools of the nation by de jure policies and practices, the promise of Brown vs. the Board of Education will prove empty and illusory, unless the problems of metropolitan-wide, interdistrict desegregation are met. (Author/AM)

This research was undertaken to determine the factor structure of the 26-item revised versions of the Mehrabian (1968) Female and Male scales, a self-report instrument designed to measure achievement motivation. (Author/RK)

The design of this experiment was based on the assumption that a stressful atmosphere, on the one hand, and failure at a preliminary task, on the other, would each make an independent, additive contribution to an examinee's state of internal arousal. Because of a supposed curvilinear relationship between arousal and task performance, it was…

A formal elaboration of the original theory of achievement motivation (Atkinson, 1957; Atkinson & Feather, 1966) is proposed that includes personal standards as determinants of motivational tendencies. The results of an experiment are reported that examines the validity of some of the implications of the elaborated model proposed here. (Author/RK)

The article focuses on teacher-student interaction as a factor in school failure and academic underachievement. (CL)

In general, the seven magnet high schools haven't worked as a way of keeping whites in Philadelphia's schools. Despite the millions spent on new magnet schools, nearly all of them are more segregated today than when they opened. (Author)

The typical complaints, the underlying reasons for the discontent, and some suggestions for ways of dealing with the problems of students in overseas study programs are discussed. (MC)

Presents axioms about scholarship, learning, English scholarship, and English teaching and examines a little recognized intellectual crisis in current English scholarship. (GW)