The hypothesis that a person stutters because he believes in the difficulty of speech, anticipates failure, and struggles to avoid it, is said to be consistent with experimental findings on the metronome effect, the adaptation effect, the effects of white noise and delayed auditory feedback, and operant control of stuttering. (Author/GW)

Article provides administrators and teachers with checklists which may be used for evaluating inservice programs. (Author/CB)

Describes a diagnostic teaching performance instrument (TAI) that gives the teacher, the teacher educator, or the supervisor concrete evidence of what the teacher has learned, or needs to learn, and what he is able to apply correctly in the classroom. (Author/MF)

Support for the operation of internal factors in cognitive development was provided by an obtained increase from first to second posttest scores. Two conservations were considered to be involved--conservation of the whole and of the part. (Author)

A report of the construction and analysis of a forced choice measure of performance behavior effectiveness of attendants in hospitals for the mentally retarded was made. (Author)

Results of this study provided indirect support for Marshall's (1965) Hypothesis with regard to the informational versus motivational properties of punishment (punishment of specific responses has discriminative or informative value, whereas punishment applied to the situation may have primary motivational value). (Author)

The present study offers partial support for the view that a therapist's empathy is related to the ways in which he describes his emotional experiences, and suggests ways in which further research might explore this relationship. (Author)

Primary purposes of the study were to determine if mentally retarded students, when compared to nonretarded students, exhibited a deficit in the early stages of rote verbal learning, and whether such an early stage deficit could be reduced by pretraining. (KW)

The implication of the study suggests that a school psychologist would be well advised to arrange the testing session well in advance of the actual test administration for young children, particularly if an assessment of intellectual capacity is planned. (Author)