Discusses the use of interdisciplary courses for the integration of art education and the how and why of such usage. Also presents teacher opinions on this approach to learning. (RK)

The present study attempts to assess whether black children's evaluations of their own achievement efforts are indeed acquired in response to prior adult approval or disapproval. (Author)

Description of a study testing for retention of visual material identified as being familiar or unfamiliar to the subjects. (HB)

In this cross-cultural research tests of the effects of stimulus familiarity on a conservation of area task in rural Guatemala are made. Performance on the conservation of area task is compared with performance on other types of conservation. Changes in performance over a one-month interval are reported. (SM)

Gumpgookies, which was administered in this study, is a test of motivation to achieve in school. (CB)

This study confirmed the practical benefits of three-choice items. (Author)

Through new attention to role expansion, physical environment design, hostility scalebacks, and information enlargement, we can make substantial new gains against off-the-job stresses that depress on-the-job performance. (Author)

Data on the health of employees, if the communication gap is closed between managers and occupational health experts, can be used to improve management's effectiveness. (AG)

Because no previous study was found in which both blank position in the item stem and positional placement of the correct response were studied simultaneously, it was decided to investigate the influence of these two factors, alone and in combination, on the difficulty level of verbal analogy items. (Authors)

Discusses the teaching-learning psychological technique called transactional analysis and its application in the classroom (RK)

Study is an investigation of the effects of an attention-focusing variable--spatial separation of central and incidental cues--and a cognitive strategy factor--verbal labeling of central cues--and their interaction on the incidental learning of Ss younger than those previously tested with these manipulations. (Authors)

Presolution reversal prevented or significantly retarded learning in kindergarten and first-grade children but did not hinder learning in fifth-grade children. (Authors)

Major finding of this study is that relative cue similarity can be used as a definition of dimensional dominance and that it predicts both initial learning and shift behavior for normal first- and third-grade children. (Author)

Major finding from this survey is that both anxiety and locus of control do not seem to bear consistent relationships to social class. (Authors)