Brief analyses are provided of presentations at a conference, held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, which addressed questions and answers relating to research and education. Conference sessions explored the role of research in relation to educational practices with special focus on theory, research, issues, and application. Papers…

Entrepreneurship courses commonly use various kinds of group work, cooperative learning, study circles and study teams. A major challenge of this pedagogy is the unbiased grading of group members based on the accountability of individual performances. This paper provides an approach to using student peer assessment to provide feedback on…

Recent investigations have demonstrated greater variance in change in intellectual performance between different generations or age groups than is true for generalized developmental change across chronological age. Such findings have led to a careful investigation of certain environmental factors which might account for such change. A new…

Investigations into item bias provide an empirical basis for the identification and elimination of test items which appear to measure different traits across populations or cultural groups. The Psychometric rationales for six approaches to the identification of biased test items are reviewed: (1) Transformed item difficulties: within-group…

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SCIENCE RESEARCH STUDIES ARE CATEGORIZED AND DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOKLET DESIGNED FOR CLASSROOM TEACHERS AND CURRICULUM WORKERS. ALTHOUGH MAJOR EMPHASIS OF THE REVIEW IS ON STUDIES PUBLISHED DURING THE 1960'S, OLDER STUDIES OF MAJOR SIGNIFICANCE ARE INCLUDED. A MAJORITY OF THE REVIEWS IS BASED ON REPORTS THAT APPEARED AS JOURNAL…

INTENDED AS A SURVEY COURSE FOR USE AT THE UPPER DIVISION OR GRADUATE LEVEL. THIS TEXT LOOKS AT EXCEPTIONALITY FROM A CULTURAL FRAME OF REFERENCE AND CONSIDERS THE PSYCHOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS, AND ADULTS. PART ONE, AN INTRODUCTION TO EXCEPTIONALITY, CONTAINS CHAPTERS ON THE GENERAL TOPICS OF BASIC…

A MULTI-PURPOSE CENTER WAS ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES TO A COMMUNITY. INITIALLY A SERIES OF MEETINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY DETERMINED THE SERVICES THAT WERE NEEDED. THE STAFF FOR THE PROJECT WAS SELECTED FROM THE RANKS OF PROFESSIONALLY EDUCATED WOMEN WHO WERE NOT WORKING, RETIRED PROFESSIONALS, COLLEGE…

MULTIPLE CLASSES ARE DEFINED AS THOSE IN WHICH THE TEACHER GUIDES THE LEARNING ENDEAVORS OF TWO OR MORE GROUPS OF PUPILS IN TWO OR MORE COURSES IN ONE ROOM AND IN THE SAME PERIOD OF THE DAILY SCHEDULE. SOME EXAMPLES ARE DESCRIBED, AND THE ABILITY OF MULTIPLE CLASSES TO MEET CERTAIN NEEDS, SPECIFIC PROCEDURES FOR STARTING MULTIPLE CLASSES, USE OF…

Ninety subjects completed identical simulated maintenance tasks under two experimental conditions. In the high job structural attribute condition subjects were told that the task was high in learning new skills, responsibility, feedback, and task identity; while in the low job structural condition they were told the opposite. Results indicated the…

Four major topics were discussed at the conference: application of information theory to testing; recent advances in psychometric methods; evaluating group interaction; and new developments in the education of abler students. Papers delivered were: Multiple Assignment of Persons to Jobs, by Paul S. Dwyer; New Light on Test Strategy from Decision…

THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION IN CHILDREN FROM MANY COUNTRIES IS TRACED AND ILLUSTRATED. AFTER THE NATURAL DEVELOPMENT OF VISUAL EXPRESSION IN CHILDREN IS REVIEWED, THE FOLLOWING TOPICS ARE CONSIDERED--INDIVIDUAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS, SUBJECTS AND THEIR REPRESENTATION IN CHILDREN'S ART, SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF ART DEVELOPMENT, AND THE…

A FIVE-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY WAS CONDUCTED OF 1550 CHILDREN, 384 OF WHOM WERE INTENSIVELY STUDIED AFTER BEING IDENTIFIED BY THEIR TEACHERS AS DEMONSTRATING SOCIALLY APPROVED OR SOCIALLY DISAPPROVED BEHAVIOR. AFTER 5 YEARS, THE SOCIALLY DISRUPTIVE GROUP OF 192 STUDENTS WAS LOWER IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AND SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT THAN THEIR APPROVED…

This volume contains abstracts of the 374 technical reports issued by the Personnel Research Laboratory at Lackland Air Force Base, in Texas, from January 1954 through December 1965. They cover studies in selection, classification, and utilization of Air Force personnel; systematizing information flow in support of personnel planning; methods of…

Foreign language teaching is a process which involves interaction, communication, personal contact, and a deep understanding of the student. Teachers must develop competencies in working with different kinds of learners if effective instruction is to materialize. This book identifies the competencies that language teachers should possess and…

When two groups, initially dissimilar, undergo different treatments, can subsequent differences be partitioned in such a way that the difference between the two treatments is unbiased? This is the central problem of this paper, and it is confronted by the examination of two levels of information using a Follow Through Evaluation. The first…