Although college students with high school economics have a higher knowledge of economic concepts, they still could use practice in applying these concepts before moving on to more concepts and analytical refinements." This and other conclusions are partly based on author's research at Carnegie-Mellon University. (DB)

Emphasizes the importance of students' vocabulary development in content areas and the responsibility of all teachers to provide such instruction. (RW)

Presents the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study designed to examine the performance of three distinct socioeconomic groups on several dimensions of resemblance sorting. (LC)

Based on the premise that innovative elementary science programs are necessary in a modern society, the author proposes that teaching strategies should stress the teaching of concepts and process skills, The new role of the teacher in a learning climate of maximum interaction and communication is defined. (LC)

Study conducted by the Aptitudes Research Project at the University of Southern California, under Contract Nonr-228(20) with the Office of Naval Research, Personnel and Training Branch.

This article proposes a different way for curriculum developers to visualize the curriculum-building process. The author suggests a method to assist faculty in incorporating the ideas that authorities in the field have set forth. (Author/CT)

Presents report of 1983 conference on trade books for young children co-sponsored by Drexel University and Free Library of Philadelphia. Keynote address by Ava Weiss, Art Director of Green Willow Books, is followed by summaries of workshops led by well-known authors, illustrators, and/or editors. A selected bibliography of books is included. (EJS)

Data from an earlier study of a cognitively based English-language training program for 67 Mexican American Head Start children were reanalyzed using meta-analysis. Spanish as the language of instruction resulted in larger effect sizes. Recently expressed doubts about the efficacy of beginning instruction in non-English speakers' native languages…

Four- and five-year-old children were asked to compare the burning times of pairs of partially synchronous lights differing in intensity, bulb size, or both. (Author/MP)

The question of what constitutes a minimal appropriate context for understanding a metaphor is examined through the relative effectiveness of three types of contextual priming for metaphor comprehension. All three produced immediate and automatic metaphor comprehension. The use of context to disambiguate both literal and nonliteral speech messages…