This study examined the effects on the long-term retention of incidental and relevant material of prequestions of high and low arousal potential. (Editor)

The present study sought to investigate the outcomes of the mastery instruction approach compared to a nonmastery approach of instruction with varying amounts of feedback being given to students with regard to their responses to multiple-choice test items on mastery tests. (Author)

The purpose of this study is to assess the utility of applying reinforcement theory to the observational study of pupil-initiated verbalizations within the classroom. (Author)

One purpose of this study was to examine computer-assisted instruction (CAI) performance in relation to certain individual difference variables and to help establish a basis for further research on this problem. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to gather data on possible differences in the teaching behavior of male and female teachers, especially in their treatment of male and female students. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to investigate an alternative approach to the aptitude-treatment-interaction method of adapting instruction to individual differences. (Author)

The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an assessment technique for the psychosocial environment of the junior high and high school classroom. (Author/RK)

In the present study two modes of information integration, simultaneous and successive, were proposed as alternatives to reasoning and memory. The generality of these two was tested by factor analyzing the cognitive test scores of 9-11-year-old children from Canada and India. (Editor/RK)

This study has demonstrated the feasibility of extracting from passages of expository text a structure that reveals an important aspect of the logical interrelations among the ideas expressed in the passage. (Author)

The primary purpose of this article is to analyze further the effect of increasing the rate of speech upon comprehension. (Author)

A model's influence on the creative behavior of 120 fifth-grade children was studied in four variations. (Author)

The retention of semantic, surface grammatical, and lexical information obtained from reading prose passages was tested after four time intervals, ranging from just after reading to one week later. (Editor)

The hypothesis that black dialect interferes with standard English comprehension received little support. (Authors)

The extent to which performance is a function of interest will be dependent upon (a) the nature of the task per se (e.g., complex vs. simple); (b) the conditions for task specification (e.g., imposed vs. selected); and (c) characteristics of the performer (e.g., high internality vs. low internality). (Author)

Objectives of the study were to determine the relationships among behaviors defined within each of several observation systems; and to examine relationships across systems in order to derive some empirical dimensions of classroom behavior. (Authors/CB)