This study examines the relationship between knowledge and attitudes with respect to nuclear issues, including the nuclear freeze proposal, MX missle, and Strategic Defense Initiative. Adults (N=750) drawn from a list of registered voters in Los Angeles County were sent a 53-item questionnaire. Of the respondents, 64 percent were male, 53 percent…

A survey of 71 elementary school and 39 middle school principals in Bronx County, New York, was designed to compare their knowledge and attitudes regarding placement of handicapped children in the most appropriate least restrictive environment and to examine the effects of experience and background on their knowledge and attitudes. The principals…

From a cognitive perspective, racial bias is evident when raters weigh job-relevant information differentially as a function of ratee race. The results of studies that have examined this issue have been conflicting. Meta-analytic procedures were used to provide more definitive conclusions as to whether supervisor ratings are more strongly related…

Forty rural adults of British Columbia participated in a simulation game using land capability data to teach rural adults certain principles and competencies required for effective land use planning. (EA)

An assessment of the clinical nutritional knowledge of third- and fourth-year medical students and practicing physicians revealed that overall nutritional knowledge is modest and that knowledge is highest among topics which have received the most publicity in the popular press. Methodology and specific findings are included. (JT)

Comprehension of a sentence entails constructing a particularized and elaborated mental representation, and this process depends more heavily on knowledge of the world and analysis of context than is generally appreciated. Existing associative or semantic network theories would be strained to accomodate this data. (Author/BJG)

The present study attempted to identify factors associated with memory deficits in 36 learning disabled and 36 normal children in grades 3 and 5. Ss were given free and serial recall tasks and interviewed about their understanding of memory processes. Deficits in the recall of the learning disabled children were found, as expected. Examination of…

The purpose of this study was to compare the knowledge and attitude test results of a student-led discussion group in two college-level introductory health courses. The 70 students enrolled in the courses were divided into eight groups represented as equally as possible concerning sex, age, year, and major in school. Student discussion leaders…

The purpose of this study was to measure the effectiveness of various newsletter formats in increasing knowledge among dairymen. The subject matter of the newsletter was harvesting, storing, and feeding of high-moisture corn. The universe of the study was the dairy farmers in seven counties who attended a five-week clinic relating to herd health…

Fifty-two students from two universities who had demonstrated mastery of the use of behavioral objectives were randomly assigned either ten knowledge level objectives (K), ten above knowledge level objectives (A), or to a non-objectives control group (C). All were tested on the same prose material using knowledge and above knowledge level items…

This study determines the preferences of college teachers for the associative, replicative, interpretive, and applicative uses of knowledge. Those preferences are seen as inputs to t curriculum development system and their relationship to outputs, curriculum and instruction decisions, are shown. Adherents of the generalist (associative and…

The author examines the source and effect of differing valuations of types of knowledge on the adult education curriculum. He explores ideas and developments in the sociology of the curriculum and the relationship between knowledge and the curriculum in general, with application to adult education curricula. (MF)

In order to determine whether psychology undergraduate students will perform significantly better on an experimental task for defining statistical terms than special education undergraduate students, a test containing 23 statistical terms (often used in special education journals) was given to 78 psychology and 93 special education majors (18-44…

Surveys of students at 60 universities involved in the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol Information "University 50 + 12 Project" appear to confirm the opinion that factual information held by students concerning alcohol and drinking is limited. The total sample population answered only a little more than one-half of the knowledge questions…