Focuses on a comparison of the academic achievement of groups of children in formal and informal classrooms of primary schools, the CPQ profiles of 43 pairs of children matched for sex and IQ level during their fourth academic year, and the relationship between second-order factors and selected measures of achievement in the two schools.…

Levels of concept acquisition interms of attribute perception were examined for 20 different chemical concepts featuring in GCE O-level school chemistry courses. (Editor)

The validity of a procedure for identifying students at risk of failure on the basis of first term examination results was checked by following up 188 students at risk, from a total of 1902 in Aberdeen University Arts Faculty in session 1974-75. (Editor)

The intent of this study was to explore several segments of divergent intelligence, visual stimulus complexity as a cognitive style, and auditory acuity, that presumably characterize the artistically expressive person. (Editor)

A battery of 28 individually administered tests, comprised of measures derived from the work of Piaget, of simple and complex learning, of language, short-term memory, long-term memory and intelligence were given to 210 children aged 5 to 6 during their first year of schooling. (Editor)

Tests of reading and mathematical understanding were administered to 210 children from three socio-economic backgrounds who had been tested 12 months earlier during their first year at school (AA 525 131). (Editor/RK)

Attempts to relate Jensen's Level I associative ability and Level II coceptual ability to the learning of meaningful verbal materials appropriate for the solution of factual and inferential problems presented in classroom-like situations. (Author/RK)

The results of this research indicated that whether pictures adversely affect learning to read or not depends on the relationship between the picture and the printed word, a direct equivalence being the least favorable. (Editor/RK)

Repertory grids were used to monitor the development of student teachers' conceptions of their professional roles. (Editor)

This research tests the hypothesis that differences in academic performance between children who have never moved and children who have moved once or several times before to a great extent stem from the fact that they perform differently prior to mobility. (Author/RK)

A content analysis of responses to the "Circles" test, designed to elicit information about sex-typing, was developed on a pilot sample of 10- to 11-year-old school children. Argues that sex-typed response styles are modifiable psychological characteristics, and that investigations of individual differences in cognition need to emphasize styles,…

Two experiments are described which are concerned with the development of referebtial ability in children. (Editor)

The production of informationally redundant choices in a selection concept attainment task was investigated in relation to age and intelligence, using 62 adolescents aged 12:7--15:6 drawn from the lower middle ability range of a comprehensive school. (Editor)