This article shows how different methods of combining test scores can lead to different grade evaluations for some students. Some methods are more reliable than others. (BB)

The use of graphic art illustrations will prove to be a significant improvement in meeting the criteria for effective programed instruction. (BB)

Practicing engineers find that much technical writing is done in small groups. A course is described which gives students such group technical writing experience. (BB)

An engineering ethics course is described which utilizes laboratory exercises to bring students into more intimate contact with their profession. (BB)

This paper describes the instructional format of the lecture and the self-paced methods of teaching FORTRAN at Michigan State University and compares end-of-term grades of students taking a second computer science course based on whether they took the first course in the self-paced or the traditional lecture format. (Author/BB)

The use of longer mathematics assignments with fourth- and sixth-grade students resulted in improved student behavior and a greater number of correct answers. (Editor)

School attendance of elementary students who had previously been chronically absent improved with home contacts by either the principal or a school secretary. (Editor)

The best predictor of drug use among secondary school dropouts is the absence of an adult male in the home. (Editor)

No significant interaction was found between the field independent cognitive style and the level of guidance in mathematics instruction in a study involving prospective elementary school teachers. (Editor)

Four variations of the cloze procedure were tested. It was concluded that the matching procedure is best suited for testing English-as-a-second-language students at the elementary level. (Editor)

A study of Australian students from six ethnic groups supports the idea that if children from different cultural groups have distinct patterns of cognitive scores, they also have distinct patterns of family learning environments. (Editor)

Students given evaluation level objectives did as well on relevant and incidental learning as did a control group, while those given knowledge level objectives achieved less incidental learning at the evaluation level. (Editor)

A survey of the perceived competencies and needs of elementary and special education teachers revealed that keeping order in the classroom and developing students' social skills were areas in which the teachers' need for competency was higher than their proficiency. (Editor)

Teachers rated the likelihood of mainstreaming success of a hypothetical disturbed child according to their tolerance for socially defiant behaviors. (Editor)

Having all students in a group respond to every question, rather than addressing questions to one student at a time, resulted in better behavior and content achievement among third graders. (Editor)