Investigation focused on the conceptual modification of professional and bureaucratic role conceptions which accompanies passage from education student to public school teacher. (Authors)

Results of the study lend support to the contention that the interview method is superior to the conventional lecture method is promoting achievement. (Authors)

Study investigates whether the i.t.a., as well as two other revised orthographies, facilitate the perception of linguistic structure. (Authors)

The present study is based on a form of task analysis that explicates in detail the hypothesized solution behavior of skilled performers of the task. (Authors)

Study attempts to determine the personality characteristics of high school students with an accent on two stereotypes, hippies'' and straights''. (RK)

Students showed no significant agreement with any of the other rating groups regarding least effective teachers. Students' judgments were related to class level and self-reported academic achievement suggesting that teacher evaluations represent a complex interactional process necessitating the specification of rater characteristics. (Author)

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)

Lists advantages and disadvantages of individualized instruction. (Author/RK)

Results show that the theme of a story can be used as a mnemonic device to improve recall. To be effective, the theme must be available to S for encoding during input. (Authors)

In general, the large number of learners found in this study lends support to the assertion that children below five or six can learn problems requiring mediation. This suggests that their learning will have to be described by more complex models. (Author)

Major purpose of this experiment was to test a notion suggested by Gagne that operations, as described by Piaget, are more dependent on learning than on development. It was concluded that the results supported Gagne's cumulative learning model rather than the notion that operations are primarily dependent upon maturation. (Authors/CB)

Results of this experiment demonstrate that brief, even fleeting, affective experiences appear to have significant implications for behavior toward others. The transient experience of positive affect makes children more generous to others, while the equally ephemeral experience of negative affect appears to make them more niggardly. (Authors)

These data appear to support the conception that the speech motor system can act as a mediator of other motor systems when speech'' is experimentally manipulated. (Author)