Article focuses on motor development in children and the advantages teachers gain when they more fully understand the problems children face in mastering the world of skilled movement. (Author/RK)

Study considered peer social interaction and suggested that the potential effectiveness of peer play settings is pertinent for the study of the development of role-taking skills. (Author/RK)

Discussed the philosophical basis of the ANISA model, a new comprehensive education model, and its implications for preschool programs. (RK)

Presents the contributions that observational methodology is making in the evaluation of early childhood programs. (Author/RK)

Presents a paradigm for teacher education and its implications in attempting to determine how research and development with young children influences teacher education. (Author/RK)

Author attempts to evaluate some issues common to this journal, such as, bridging the gap between research and theory on the one hand and classroom teaching on the other. (Author/RK)

In Colorado, expanded efforts to provide continuing education opportunities for mental health professionals are proving satisfactory in overcoming a traditional resistance. (GB)

The visiting psychologist program is designed to bring mental health professionals up to date in their field, but long term benefits of the program have been difficult to document. (Editor/GB)

Describes an inservice program planned by the participants. (Author)

An observation system was designed to describe cognitive aspects of teacher discourse that could be related to ATI interactions. Twelve videotaped lessons were analyzed using the system; 13 of 19 categories had correlations greater than .70. Percentages of discourse for the four eighth-grade teachers studied are presented. (MS)

A 30-minute lesson on exponents was taught to 249 fourth graders assigned randomly to groups of 1, 2, 5, or 23. Students in the smaller groups had better attainment of ten objectives than did those in the group of 23. Individual instruction was better than instruction in groups of five. (MS)

Three strategies were used to teach 39 community college students about partition of a set.'' Mean achievement of the Exemplification group on the exemplification test was significantly greater than the average of the means of the Characterization-followed-by-exemplification group and the Characterization-preceded-and-followed-by-exemplification…

The impact of expectations about student performance and ability is illustrated by four research studies; attention is drawn to the cooperative nature of this phenomenon. (Author)

Describes dialect differences, how to distinguish them, how to assess them and how to use them in teaching standard English. (Author)

Author used controlled experiments to determine the effects of short and long spacing and to refine and improve a training program; extensive training resulted in higher levels of learning, accompanied by more dropouts and higher absenteeism.'' (Author)