A survey, consisting of demographic, leisure, and personal data, was conducted on middle-aged-adults in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Questions were designed to elicit information concerning the subjects' expectations of increased or decreased leisure activity during the years preceding retirement. Results show that activity patterns for…

Refutes scientific creationists' arguments that the earth is less than 10,000 years old by presenting information related to the time scales for creation and evolution models, times from stellar distances, Kelvin's estimate of the earth's age, radioactive decay, radiometric dating, and the decay of the earth's magnetic field. (DC)

Reviews a study designed to determine the effects of providing special education teachers with computer programs to aid them in developing appropriate math education programs for their students. The experiment demonstrated that math learning rate could be accelerated, but not whether the accelerated rate could be maintained. Thirteen references…

In nine articles, examines the phenomenon of leisure and leisure counseling from a psychological point of view. Discusses and reacts to the nature of leisure and its relationship to mental health and cognitive development, leisure counseling models, the role of leisure education in youth development, and future directions. (RC)

Suggests techniques and behaviors teachers can use to optimize the flow and pacing of their music lessons. Included are techniques for timing the lesson, keeping students involved, and minimizing interruptions and transitions. (SJL)

High school discussion classes were tape-recorded and the duration of student utterances timed. No significant difference was observed between response to teacher questions and response to declarative statements. Response to questions appeared unrelated to selected characteristics of classroom, teacher, and student. The efficacy of teacher…

A description of the French program in Ottawa schools and a look at the costs and sources of revenue for implementing a second language program. (Editor)

State funding mechanisms are seen as coming under scrutiny because they don't accurately reflect enrollment decline effects on overall costs. Ohio has worked out a method of relating funding formula to actual costs and Florida reduces funding by half the average cost for enrollment declines. (Author/MLW)

The author explains his research on learning differences between children of Hawaii's different ethnic groups, particularly the Oriental-Americans. His studies focus on two separate variables: fast-slow instruction and locus of control. (SJL)

Children viewed a television segment that included humorous or nonhumorous inserts paced either at slow or fast intervals, or an uninterrupted program. Both humorous conditions produced information acquisition results that were superior to any of the no-humor situations. Visual attention and reaction to the humor were noted. (Author/GDC)

Impact of information about behaviors, labels, psychotherapy and sex of hypothetical pupils on teachers' expectations of present and future school functioning was investigated. Behaviors were the prepotent determinant of teachers' ratings. Future ratings of children were consistently more positive than ratings for the present. (Author/RD)

Normative stress in families results whenever components are added to or subtracted from a family system. Due to the process of family boundary maintenance, there is little similarity in family structures across time. Family structures constantly change to facilitate the accomplishment of functions while maintaining family boundaries. (Author)

A model of reading comprehension focuses on eye fixations, which are related to the level of reading processes--words, clauses, and text units. Longer pauses are associated with greater processing difficulty. This model is illustrated for a group of undergraduate students reading scientific articles from "Newsweek" and "Time" magazines. (GDC)

For college students learning concepts, the advisement condition resulted in better performance than the learner control condition and needed less instructional time than the adaptive control condition. Results also indicated that students given concepts simultaneously performed better and needed less instruction than those who received concepts…

Analysis showed no significant differences between traditional and nontraditional students to the type of counseling they were seeking. New questions were raised, however, regarding the adequacy of counseling services in general and as specifically related to nontraditional students. (Author)