In an attempt to locate possible antecedents for racial differences in science achievement, measures of math and reading achievement, causal attribution, attitude toward school success, and in-class behavior were acquired from students in desegregated science classrooms. (Author/LMO)

This study compared and evaluated three alternative theoretical models of the reading-writing relationship. Reading dimensions included word analysis, vocabulary, and sentence comprehension components; writing dimensions included spelling, vocabulary, sentence structure, and story organization components. Models differed in sequential orderings of…

An experiment was designed to compare the speed with which normal and disabled readers in two age groups retrieved semantic information from memory. Results indicate that disabled readers need more time to retrieve categorical information from memory than normal readers. (Author/LMO)

This article presents a new method of inferring students' cognitive structures and their development. A modification of Reitman and Rueter's "ordered tree technique," the method generates a structure that displays important relationships assumed to be in a student's memory about concepts taken from a specific field of study. (Author/LMO)

For each of six randomly selected elementary students, their teachers were asked to predict whether the student had responded correctly or incorrectly to selected items on a standardized achievement test that recently had been administered in the district. Results were consistent with other research. (Author/LMO)

The effects of two types of interspersed mathemagenic postquestions (superordinate and subordinate) on cognitive capacity engagement during reading and subsequent performance on a recall posttest were investigated using the secondary task paradigm. (Author/LMO)

Two computer-based instructional design strategies were investigated to improve the two-phase process of concept learning by being response sensitive to error patterns. The first strategy determined the format of examples by adaptive or fixed selection; the second strategy adjusted the selection according to rules of generalization and…

A theoretically based investigation of color stimulation effects on hyperactivity was conducted. Findings were that stimulation added early or late to a sustained attention task can normalize the performance of hyperactive children and reduce their activity. (Author/LMO)

This experiment explored the mediating functions of attributional and self-efficacy variables on achievement outcomes for skill training treatments offered in conjunction with attributional feedback. Children who were identified as learned helpless and deficient in division skills received training on division operations either through modeling…

The present experiment tested a strategy, developed from principles on general text processing, for learning technical material. The effectiveness of cooperative learning was examined as a technique for learning technical information. Results showed that cooperative learning and technical learning strategies were effective for acquiring structural…

This study investigates the impact of cooperative learning and the impact of opportunity to interact with classmates on achievement and cross-handicap relationships. Results indicate that positive goal interdependence with collaborative-skills and academic group contingencies promoted positive relationships with nonhandicapped classmates, frequent…

The two goals of this study were to examine factors affecting parents' teaching strategies with their children and to identify the effectiveness of different teaching strategies for engaging children in tasks. Results indicated that parents varied their teaching strategies according to both task and children's communicative status. (Author/LMO)

This experiment examined the recall and recognition performance of 53 field-independent and 55 field-dependent learners who were with or without structure at the time of acquisition and/or at the time of recall. Patterns of performance were consistent with processing styles characteristic of field dependence-independence. (Author/LMO)

Qualitative evidence for the operation of partial knowledge is given by two findings. First, performance when second and subsequent choices are made is above the chance level. Second, it is positively related to first choice performance. A number of theories incorporating partial knowledge are compared quantitatively. (Author/LMO)

The effects of Hooper's seriation training method were investigated using 36 kindergarten children as subjects. Training produced strong effects. Near-far transfer was observed. The effects of training were durable for at least four months after the training. However, two years later the trained and untrained children performed equivalently.…