Compared adolescents' (N=213) knowledge of aging with the amount and quality of contact they had with an older adult and compared adolescents' knowledge of aging in 1978 with adolescent's knowledge in 1985. Results indicated adolescents were very misinformed or uninformed about aging and older adults. Implications for educational efforts are…

Using a naturalistic research design, 22 teachers of secondary students classified as educable mentally retarded were interviewed about their perceptions of their students' feelings, attitudes, knowledge and behaviors related to sexuality. Results indicated that teachers perceived their students as having limited and/or distorted information about…

Learning-disabled (LD) intermediate grade students (N=10), as well as low and high achieving students, were interviewed about their metacognitive knowledge of the writing process and also composed two expository texts. LD students were less aware than high achieving students of modeled writing strategies and steps in the writing process.…

Surveyed 357 college students to assess awareness of the status of nuclear arms development and possible effects of nuclear war on people and environment. Results suggest that older adolescents are extremely uninformed regarding the current status of nuclear issues and consequences of nuclear war. Indicates a strong need to educate young people…

Reviews problems relating to tobacco, alcohol, and drug use among American-Indians. Describes bicultural competence skills approach which proved successful for preventing substance abuse among American-Indian adolescents at posttest and follow-up on measures of substance-use knowledge, attitudes, and interactive skills, and on self-reported rates…

This article reports on the growth of sexual awareness and physiology among a randomly-selected sample of 541 Chinese middle school students. Maintains that the results show the need for sex education and the harmful results of failing to provide it. Advocates that a general discussion on the subject of sex education be promoted in educational…

This study sought to determine general levels of physical fitness and knowledge of basic fitness concepts of 50 hearing-impaired college freshman. Results indicated that fitness levels of subjects were not significantly different from those of non-impaired peers, although knowledge levels of subjects appeared to be lower than the norms for…

Nineteen preservice teachers received an eight-week model training course in divergent thinking and questioning techniques for use with young children. Both knowledge of divergent thinking and use of divergent thinking questions with kindergarten children was much greater for the experimental group than for a control group. (DB)

The purpose of this study was to determine the strengths and needs of first-year secondary teachers, procedures that could be of help in improving practice, and causes for leaving teaching after the first year. Results are discussed. (MT)

This article has three goals: to set forth some general claims about the course of skill acquisition; to discuss a series of counter intuitive predictions derived from the ACT theory; and to review the state of empirical evidence relevant to these predictions. (LMO)

Describes the Knowledge of Child Development Inventory (KCDI), a multiple-choice test of knowledge of child development from birth to age three in the areas of emotional, cognitive, physical, and social development. Normative data, reliability, and validity statistics are given. (Author/BL)

Explains that the concept of message discrimination was originally developed as a means of determining actual units of content that individuals extract from encounters with mass media and describes the relationship between message discrimination and the two related concepts of systematic information availability and knowledge. (DF)

This study tested 625 college students in an introductory computer course to determine their knowledge of common computer terms. Results indicate that a large proportion of the terms are used inconsistently, and not understood by either students or those who define them. Implications for teachers of computer courses are discussed. (MBR)

Examined the relationship between low income mothers' (N=243) knowledge about child development and their ability to design a quality home learning environment. Controlling for income and education, parents who knew more about critical environmental factors and infant normative development did score higher on the parenting skill measure. (JAC)

This review (extracted from a report of the same title published by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983, 0-405-522/1101) identifies some of the social, behavioral, and demographic affects on young people's perceptions of the natural world in general and animals in particular. (JN)