A number of problems may arise when university-based researchers conduct research in public school districts. Administrators may be suspicious about the value of research activities unless they are given an accurate understanding of its outcomes and benefits. Those conducting research in school systems must ask themselves a number of questions…

This study examines the performance of 85 men and women in two motor learning tasks, which were identified as tasks usually performed better by women or alternatively, by men. Both men and women demonstrated best task learning when they believed that most members of their sex did well on the task, and when no evaluative judgments were made on…

This paper presents the results of a five year effort to evaluate the results of tests and questionnaires administered to Follow Through (FT) and non-Follow Through (NFT) children and their parents and teachers. The test battery studied included the Metropolitan Achievement Test (MAT), the Raven's Progressive Matrices instrument, the Cooperville…

This study investigated the effects of the direction of print on learning-disabled students' and normal students' abilities to learn the sequence in which sentences are presented, to comprehend sentences, and to recognize relationships among sentences. Four groups of 12 learning-disabled pupils and four groups of 12 normal pupils between the ages…

Georgia Institute of Technology has created a preparatory workshop that avoids focusing composition courses on the state competency exam while helping its students pass the exam. In checking the exams of students who had failed, three problems appeared: lack of motivation, lack of awareness of the standards for grading the exam, and an inability…

After examining factors contributing to success and failure in the schools, the authors present a six-stage program for success--develop community-based goals, develop a district philosophy for implementing the goals, develop a framework of implementation policies, develop district-level learning objectives, develop instructional programs to…

The first major section of this report describes in detail an information-integration theory which seeks to explain how an organism selects information and integrates it with other information from the environment and from the organism's internal processes. The model treats information as a pattern of neural activity composed of a plethora of unit…

Many young children are being placed in a formal reading program before they are cognitively ready. Jean Piaget's developmental theory challenges educators to begin viewing learning and cognitive development from the child's point of view. Interpreters of Piaget's theory have addressed themselves to the teaching of math and science concepts, but…

U.S. Commissioner of Education Allen, in an address to a group united in their effort to eliminate reading failure in the United States, said that volunteers are needed to sustain the additional person-to-person, specialized help that will determine the ultimate success of the Right to Read program. Brief mention was made of various roles…

To test the hypothesis that experimentally-induced success and failure experiences would differentially affect mentally retarded and normal children, 24 educable mentally retarded children and their matched mental age (MA) and chronological age (CA) controls were given six trials on a verbal 5-item vocabulary task. The subjects (Ss) were given, in…

This paper outlines several schemes for developing quality private schools for inner city students. The basic assumption justifying the proposal that such schools be independently managed is that the urban public school systems have patently failed to educate poor children. Therefore, a new national network of independent schools should be…

In a country beset with confrontation and division--some of it over the quality of education--educators should consider as a basic need, the right of every student to read. With taxpapers concerned about the cost of education, educators need to make certain that present allotments go to priority needs, which surely include alleviating the tragic…

A recent finding that good and poor readers may bring different response patterns to the reading task comes from a pilot study in which so-called good readers achieved a higher score on a comprehension test than did poor readers, even when they had not had a paragraph or story to read as a basis for answering the questions. This study was a more…

The objective of the study was to identify and analyze practices and procedures, rules and regulations, and public laws which hinder or prevent inmate training and postrelease employment and to recommend necessary modifications. Members of the project staff reviewed the literature on the subject and sought information and advice from consultants…

This study looked at Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) scores by race in relation to medical college status. It was found that promoted students differed significantly on all four MCAT subtests from those dismissed for academic difficulties and those repeating a year. For both black and white racial groups, the latter two status categories…