Nearly 500,000 students responded to a survey on health and safety distributed by the "Weekly Reader" to second- through sixth-grade students throughout the United States. This report presents both a tabular depiction and a summarization of answers received from students to the 13 safety-related and six health-related questions. Questions dealt…

The study explored the organization of mentally retarded individuals' event knowledge and the relationship between social knowledge and performance in naturally occurring events. Twenty mentally retarded adults and 20 nonretarded preschoolers were asked to sequence photographs of events depicted in familiar and novel contexts. Preschoolers were…

This paper presents the detailed propositional analyses of the text employed in a study that compared the contents of recall protocols of high knowledge (HK) and low knowledge (LK) groups. The paper also includes the propositional analyses of the recall protocols of the HK and LK individuals, as well as detailed analyses of the results. (Author/FL)

The population for a study conducted to determine how knowledgeable teachers and media specialists are about the new copyright law consisted of 147 teachers and 52 media specialists, who were randomly selected from schools in suburban Atlanta school districts. A questionnaire was designed based on the documents published by the professional…

The general thesis, which this article attempts to find an adequate theoretical framework for, is (to quote Bernstein): "How a society selects, classifies, distributes, transmits and evaluates the educational knowledge it considers to be public, reflects both the distribution of power and the principles of social control."

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a project of the Educational Commission of the States, has for the past 7 years been assessing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of groups of young Americans. NAEP collects data by age, sex, race, geographic region, size and type of community and level of parental education for several…

A pilot survey was done to assess the health knowledge, attitudes, and practices of a deaf population in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Author/DLS)

Data were collected by personal interview on shopping roles, information processing, food stamp and coupon use, store brand purchases, mispricing and product unavailability experiences, and with familiarity with fair trade practices. Implications and directions for further research are suggested. (Author)

In this study, current knowledge in the field of physical education is defined and categorized; an instrument and techniques for assessing the extent of obsolescence is developed; and parameters of obsolescence in a sample of physical educators is estimated. (MB)

In a new book published this week, this American writer attacks the view that learning and doing are two different acts. (Editor/RK)

Television may be inhibiting our ability to create new ideas, according to Eric Somers, assistant professor of journalism at Drake University. Discusses television's role as facilitator of information and how it should improve to increase organization and the creative process. (Editor/RK)

Presents results of a telephone survey of 516 adults which focused on sex differences in concern and knowledge about one environmental issue, acid rain. The findings contradict predictions that women are more concerned about environmental issues: if there is a sex difference, men are found to be more concerned and knowledgeable about acid rain.…

A study involving 90 regular class teachers indicated that the Rucker-Gable Educational Programming Scale appears a valid measure of the construct of knowledge of appropriate placement for handicapped students and sensitive to training effects. (CL)

Comparison of Black adolescents' and White adolescents' cancer knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs found that, although subjects typically obtained their knowledge from the same sources, groups differed in terms of knowledge about warning signs, cue to action, perceived barriers, susceptibility, severity, and benefits. (Author/CB)

Results of surveying 299 professionals concerning their knowledge and attitudes about child sexual abuse and incest showed that the type of sexual activity involved influenced responses; the type of relationship between adult and child, less so. Estimates of incest were low but incest was considered to be harmful to the victim. (Author/DB)