Project TALENT is a large-scale, long-range educational research effort aimed at developing methods for the identification, development, and utilization of human talents, which has involved some 440,000 students in 1,353 public, private, and parochial secondary schools in all parts of the country. Data collected through teacher-administered tests,…

This running commentary cites examples to show that measurement and research in education, since Binet, have been used to solve school problems. Current problems cited stem from post-World War II acceptance of the goal of educating "all the children of all the people." Compensatory education, peer-tutoring vs. competitive scrambling, mastery…

On the first of November, 1967 a Schools Council research and development project in Compensatory Education which will last for three-and-one-half years, was set up in the Department of Education of the University College of Swansea, Wales. The main aims of the project were: to provide screening techniques to enable children in need of…

Qualitative and quantitative evaluations were made of the 1967-68 academic period, the sixth year of demonstration classes, conducted by the Institute for Developmental Studies at New York University. Qualitative evaluations were obtained for reading, mathematics, classroom behavior, science, creative dramatics, and use of the Language Master…

Beginning in 1956 about 250 students in two London, England junior schools were intensively studied over a 4-year period for intellectual, educational, emotional, and social development. The schools approached instruction differently; one was child-oriented; the other was subject-oriented. In 1964 this followup study was conducted with some of the…

This paper reports findings from the first two years of a 3-year study to evaluate the effects of court-ordered busing in Waco, Texas. The objective of this study is to determine minority student achievement gains or losses, attitudes toward busing and school desegregation, the degree of interracial cooperation and acceptance in Waco schools, and…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused minority students. Differences in achievement gains are hypothesized to be a function of bused student attitudes toward busing and the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. The design of this study is that of a…

The Matching Familiar Figures Test is a measure of the response style "reflection-impulsivity." The version of the test used in the longitudinal study test battery consists of two practice and 18 test items. On each item, the child is shown one standard and four comparison figures. Figures are simple line drawings done in black on a…

The Sigel Object Categorization Test (SOCT) is used for studying classification abilities in young children, the criteria for which is considered indicative of both cognitive ability and style. The test consists of two types of stijuli--one set of 12 relatively familiar three-dimensional objects and a second set of colored photographs of these…

This summary report to the families of the subject children involved in the Pre-School Project outlines in a non-technical manner the methods and category systems used to examine the information gathered and to interpret the findings drawn from the data. The two major interests of the Pre-School Project were: (1) the moment-to-moment experience of…

This paper presents a moderately detailed overview of research and development needs through an analysis of past, current, and planned research efforts, in conjunction with recommendations of a sociological, political, and moral nature. This approach is in line with pleas for more comprehensive theories and for assessment and programming which…

This is one of a series of reports on the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities (NLSMA). This report presents a sequence of analyses that explore the relationships between mathematics achievement and three sets of variables: pupil, teacher, and school for students in grades four and six, (NLSMA Reports Nos. 1, 4, 7, and 9 provide…

This is one of a series of reports on the National Longitudinal Study of Mathematical Abilities (NLSMA). This one is a summary of NLSMA Reports Nos. 21-25, presented as an aid in searching for patterns across various correlates, various mathematical achievement measures, and various samples. In the original analyses, students were grouped into…

This study was a follow-up of a three year longitudinal study of factors affecting learning to read. It examined the efficacy of four different approaches to beginning reading instruction on subsequent reading achievement in grade four. Major purposes were to determine what effect maturation and exposure to a non-experimental typical grade four…

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a sequenced, highly-structured direct instruction program in language and reading skills on the intellectual growth, academic achievement, and school adjustment of 303 middle class kindergarten children. Children were assigned to one of four treatment groups: a "direct verbal"…