The critical issue in defining the goal of educational psychology in teacher preparation is the necessity of supplying, as part of the preparation process, a suitable interface between the principles afforded through the discipline of educational psychology and the real world in which education will take place. (RC)

From the perspective of perceptual psychology the goal of educational psychology is to educate students who, freed to discover the personal meaning of information and apply it to problem solving situations throughout the teacher education program, begin the process of becoming effective teachers. (RC)

Attempts to determine whether prosocial acts of cooperation and friendliness by a black or a white adolescent model influence the play of younger black and white elementary school boys. (Author)

After viewing a photograph of an attractive or unattractive child and a vignette of possible misbehavior by that child, female teachers evaluated each student for blame, punishment and personality. Attractive children received better personality ratings than did unattractive. Unattractive girls were given more lenient punishments than unattractive…

The purpose of the two experiments was to specifically test for spatial order memory differences as a function of reader ability. (Author)

The study investigates the use of language patterns in specified social contexts in children and adults, within families, among three different ethnic and geographical groups in the U.S.: Central Texas Mexican Americans, Miami Cuban Americans, and New York Puerto Ricans. (Author/DEP)

The notion that student generated questions or instructor generated questions of a recalled prose passage will better aid learning is examined. (DEP)

The results of the study show that illustrations combined with aural stimuli facilitate the learning of prose among six year old students when the choice of objects used in the illustration is not left to the child. (Author/DEP)

The nature of cultural differences in field dependence, the nature of the cultural achievement gaps in reading and math, and the extent to which dependence explains the cultural achievement gaps is investigated in an attempt to examine these differences between Anglo American and Mexican American children. (Author/DEP)

The effect of media presentations (oral, print, pictures, and combinations) on prose learning between high socioeconomic status white and low socioeconomic black children is compared and analyzed. (DEP)

Sixty administrators were presented with two forms of responses (positive or negative) on teacher application forms. Administrators were asked to evaluate teachers based on their applications and to determine whether they would be interested in this teacher for their schools. (Author/DEP)

The effect of passage illustration training on reading comprehension in third and fourth graders is examined. Results show that standardized test scores were not improved due to this training. (Author/DEP)

Examines a teacher's felt responsibility and self rating in regards to their students' performance in mastering concept classification tasks. (DEP)

Male and female volunteer teachers' attitudes toward student performance is assessed. (DEP)

Children from open and traditional classrooms were matched for IQ, sex, age, grade and then administered reading and creativity tests. Results showed the high IQ, traditional students had high reading and creativity scores. (DEP)