The author presented young children with reasoning problems. Summaries of performance on diverse problems are presented. (SD)

Teachers are in an excellent position to observe indications of child abuse, and may be able to help the parents recognize the harm they are doing to the child's normal physical, emotional, and intellectual development. (MB)

It appears that successful teaching is based upon a large number of variables that must be present to at least a minimum degree, rather than one or two critical factors. (MM)

Suggests that the traditional method of observing teachers and classrooms used by researchers should be abandoned. (Editor/RK)

Examined are the potential contributions of research on social reciprocity to the assessment and remediation of social withdrawal among educationally handicapped preschool children. (Author)

Devised a classroom observation code that would identify hyperactive children reliably. Children referred for hyperactivity had significantly higher scores than comparison children on 12 categories. There was greater within-subject variability in the hyperactive group. Motor activity for both groups was significantly inversely related to age.…

In reference to P. Newcomer's article (EC 100 217) on diagnostic-remedial model limitations and the teacher consultant role, the author emphasizes the regular teacher's role in prevention of academic failure and discusses three alternatives to standardized tests: developmental guidance, sensitive observation of the reading process, and individual…

A group of 451 Finnish-speaking undergraduates was examined to study occurrence of articulatory disorders. Distortions of /s/, /r/, /l/, /n/, and /d/ were found. Age and sex were not related to prevalence of disorders. Previous speech therapy tended to correlate with higher frequencies of disorders of /s/ and /r/ sounds. (Author/KM)

A method of teaching alternative dispute resolution (ADR) involves sending students to observe actual ADR sessions, by agreement with the agencies conducting them, and then analyzing the students' observations in focused discussions to improve student insight and understanding of the processes involved. (MSE)

A follow-up study examined what eight preservice physical education majors saw in a 15-minute games lesson with fifth-grade students. Analysis indicated that, unlike the first study where student teachers recorded statements about pupils or pupils and the teacher, current student teachers recorded statements about the teacher, the pupils, and the…

Communication in mother-infant dyads and mother-infant-sibling triads was examined to determine how variation in the number of people and type of activity affect the ways language is used by all participants. Homebased observations were made of 16 first- and 16 later-born children when they were between 18 and 23 months old. (Author/BN)

Examines differences among speech behavior-social evaluation relationships as a function of whether the evaluator's perspective was that of a participant or an observer and, if the latter, whether the presentational medium involved an audiovisual, audio-only, or transcriptual recording. (RAE)

Discusses ways in which teacher supervision and observation can help teachers to explore and see teaching as a process through such methods as taping and transcribing class activities, grouping tape or transcription excerpts, arriving at a common language to discuss them, and making multiple interpretations about them. (Author/CB)

Several reference librarians respond to the Hernon and McClure study on the accuracy of library reference services. Highlights include problems with the methodology used (unobtrusive observation), and performance factors not addressed by the study. Comments by Hernon and McClure address these responses and ways to improve reference services are…