Results from two experiments with college students indicate that better readers evaluate information in a paragraph with respect to its relevance to the paragraph topic, processing topical information at the expense of nontopical concepts. (AA)

Undergraduates in an economics course reported prior grade averages and their final exam predictions. Students rated the influence that ability, effort, task difficulty, and luck had on performance and completed an achievement motivation scale. Regression analyses provided support for the attribution model of achievement expectations. Sex…

Attraction had its strongest impact on dyadic satisfaction, a nonperformance outcome of the experiment. Among the all-female dyads, racial composition of the dyad was significantly related to satisfaction: interracial dyads had higher levels of satisfaction than intraracial dyads. (Author/WI)

To merge the reinforcement and competition approaches and to test the relative efficacy of reward structures, group vs individual rewarding was paired with three amounts of monetary reward for performance. The math performance of college females was consistent with the differential rewarding hypotheses, whereas males were consistent with a…

The study investigated the effect of information responsiveness in relation to training in feedback utilization on discrimination learning among 77 preschool children (ages four and five years). (Author/PHR)

Examined were the effects of two situational factors, setting and familiarity of the examiner, on the assessment performance of eight developmentally disabled children (one-three years old). (CL)

Receptive fingerspelling performance for words in isolation and context was measured at 10-foot interval distances from 10 feet through 60 feet in 83 hearing-impaired college students. (Author/PHR)

Consultation needs a sound basis for an integration of its parts in order to become a scientific discipline. Help givers have concentrated on specializing to the detriment of solidarity of consultation. Studying and evaluating consultation behavior results in a coherent and systematic basis for a consultation theory. (Author/MFD)

A secondary analysis of data on 109 New England daily newspapers indicated that the number and kind of editorial staffers hired, their training and experience, their salaries, participation of the newspapers in professional workshops and in self-study, and the type of ownership of the papers are all related to performance. (GW)

Investigated were the effects of three different social situations (evaluative audience, nonevaluative audience, and no audience) on the performance of 48 mildly retarded children (12 to 18 years old). (SBH)

Reports findings for the relationship of the amount of instructional time in reading received by elementary school students in four New York state school districts to their gains in scores on the California Achievement Test and the "Criterion Referenced Test" prepared by the New York State Department of Education. (AA)

The purpose of this study was to assess the extent and intensity of selected role conflicts encountered by teacher/coaches. (JD)

Frequent informal interactions between faculty and students are positively related to the students' academic performance and self-perceived personal growth. (ED)

A comparison between 59 first graders of high activity level and 61 of low activity level provided support for the developmental theory which suggests that language may be a compensatory factor in the cognitive functioning of hyperactive children. (CL)