A three-day teaching unit increased positive responses of 27 fifth-grade sighted students about visual impairments. Lessons included a discussion of the nature and causes of visual impairment, the use of sighted guide techniques, and a presentation by a blind teacher. (CL)

The author discusses his opposition to gifted curriculum developed largely by teachers and suggests that real problems should be the focus of gifted programing. Two curriculum models are described according to four variables: the roles of students, knowledge, creativity, and teachers. (CL)

Characteristics of Hungarian youth political culture were surveyed. The first study investigated the recognition and interpretation of various political symbols. The second study investigated the effect of knowledge on youths' appraisal of political personalities. (AM)

Reports data that link media use to knowledge of public affairs and this knowledge to voter behavior in local elections. (FL)

Describes a study which measured the social studies content knowledge of preservice elementary education majors. One hundred twenty-eight elementary social studies methods preservice education majors completed the social studies portion of the General Education Development Test. Results showed weaknesses in student knowledge of political science,…

Examined the effect of police patrol and crime education on the fear of crime and security-conscious behavior of 152 senior citizens. Results indicated that, although those who were highly affected by the crime education component exhibited increased security-conscious behavior, they also showed increased fear. (Author)

It was discovered that parents of young hearing impaired children know the most about hearing loss, and parents of children in the 12- to 15-year age range know the least about hearing loss. Most parents in this study knew very little about their child's hearing aid. (Author)

Research is reviewed on factors affecting attitudes toward mentally retarded persons, including contact, intervention, and information. (CL)

The study examined the influence of prior knowledge on 15 third grade reading level deaf students' comprehension. Results on prequestion, retell, and probe responses indicated that younger deaf readers' prior knowledge and general comprehension of these paragraphs approximated that of older readers. (Author/SB)

Titular colonicity (presence of colon in title) is shown to index the progress of scholarship over a century. Analysis of 1,150 titles in education, psychology, and literary criticism reveals use of the colon in the majority of contemporary titles across disciplines, thereby demonstrating the progressive complexity of scholarship. (Author/MLW)

How a person decides that s/he doesn't know something is considered. It is argued that when asked a question, one first conducts a preliminary search of memory to locate stored information relevant to the question. Three experiments are presented, and important theoretical issues are discussed. (Author/GK)

Results of a survey to identify services or programs available to parents in 170 facilities, agencies, or school programs serving exceptional individuals in southern California and results of a survey of 100 parents of exceptional children are reported. (PHR)

Various health and rehabilitative services staff participated in a four-day death education program. Participants in the program and a control group were given two equivalent forms of a knowledge test. The treatment group showed a higher gain score on the posttest than the control group. (RC)

This article discusses the results of a survey conducted to determine what educators know and feel about the energy situation. A total of 324 educators, 82 percent of whom were elementary teachers, responded to the survey. Overall the educators were somewhat better informed about energy matters than the few general population groups which have…

A survey of 1,142 normal students in grades 4 through 12 indicated that they knew very little about mental retardation and the mentally retarded. Only about half of the respondents made reference to "subaverage general intellectual functioning," while references to physical impairment were frequent. (DLS)