Viewing a videotaped model giving responses to a creativity test did have an effect on sixth graders' creativity performance in this study, but the effect varied with sex, race, creativity traits measured, and test used. (MJB)

The author found that college students felt that a mid-quarter course evaluation caused some changes in their courses if the instructor conducted discussions of the evaluation results. (ED.)

Participation in English and speech remediation courses resulted in significant differences in grades, grade point average, and retention rates, as well as in trends over four semesters of college work, of treatment group students in relation to two control groups. (MJB)

In this study of teacher/course evaluations by college students, the authors found that different stated purposes for the evaluation (student use, instructor use, or administrator use) had no differing effects on student ratings. Graduate teaching assistants received higher ratings than did either assistants or full professors. (MJB)

Response changes on multiple-choice items tend to improve test scores of elementary school children. (Author/MJB)

A program of training in visual analysis (visual short-term memory, discrimination of letters and words, and remedial instruction) proved no more effective than a remedial program without visual training in improving the reading skills of second-and third-grade nonreaders with visual perceptual difficulties. (MJB)

Female college students with study problems could be differentiated from those without through measures of study skills knowledge and use, adjustment difficulties, and academic aptitude, while males could not be differentiated. Males in a study skills course reported greater adjustment problems and lower math and social science scores than those…

Chinese students, in this study of fifth-, eighth-, eleventh-graders, were consistently lower in test wiseness than their American counterparts. (MJB)

The hypothesis that teen counselors would be preferred over regular teachers, and would be a factor in sixth-grade students' retaining information on drug and substance abuse, was strongly supported by a consumer questionnaire. A knowledge test, however, did not support the hypothesis. (MJB)

Students with two cognitive styles (field dependent/field independent) generally produced the best examination scores when they used a nonpreferred study technique and reviewed. (Author)

The definition of hierarchical structure is reviewed, together with psychometric and experimental evidence regarding the existence of specific structures. A mathematical model including hierarchical and nonhierarchical options for a two component task is presented, along with an experimental design appropriate for testing the model and related…

Evidence is provided for gradual age (and, seemingly, cognitive developmental) changes in the acquisition of complex problem solving strategies. Differential performance as a function of exposure to a child-model exhibiting the best strategy also suggests the role of learning in strategy acquisition. (Author/MV)

The validity of the constructs underlying the Clark-Trow Typology of College Student Subcultures--academic interests and non-academic interests--are confirmed. However, there are indications that the involvement with ideas dimension does not discriminate satisfactorily among the four student groups. (Author/MV)

Spatial distribution of activity in a second-third grade open classroom was observed before and after a change in the physical design, to test the hypothesis that minor changes in the physical setting would produce predictable, desirable changes in student behavior. In most cases the desired behavior changes were produced. (Author/MV)

The concept of Levels of Use of the Innovation (LoU) permits an operational, cost-feasible description and documentation of whether or not an educational innovation or treatment is being implemented. Eight different LoU's can be reliably measured: nonuse, orientation, preparation, mechanical uses, routine, refinement, integration, and renewal.…