Findings suggest that caution should be used in interpreting results of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT) with preschool rural Black children. (Authors/CJ)

The Cloze Procedure can be a useful instrument in matching student reading levels to appropriate reading selections. Additional research on ways to match students to readings at appropriate levels is needed. (Author/CJ)

Two successful teaching strategies for improving students' reading comprehension, vocabulary, and speed of reading comprehension are the MRM method (identifying sentence kernels) and the LOGANAR method (logically analyzing cognitive relationships). (CJ)

Evidence suggests that student teachers are affectively disposed to examples of directive over nondirective supervision. Future research should examine tentative findings that student teachers prefer supervisors of the opposite sex. (Author/CJ)

Teachers tend to give directions that their pupils can follow correctly. Children are better able to process increasingly complex directions as they get older. (Authors/CJ)

Regardless of achievement level, rural Appalachian children possess a significantly more negative self-concept, particularly in school-related and intellectual activities, than do urban children. Relationships among student self-concept, schools, and the social settings in which they exist need to be examined. (Author/CJ)

In a classroom investigation of the teaching of transformation geometry, an attempt was made to generate aptitude-treatment interactions by using various teaching methods among groups of students. (CJ)

Guttman Smallest Space Analysis was applied to 51 variables collected on 850 children in 48 Israeli schools, grades 4 through 9. Mapping sentences were derived for defining achievement orientation. Relations among components of the structure were weaker for students of eastern origin than for those of western origin. (Author/RL)

This study investigated the interactive effects on performance and motivation of four motivational aptitudes and two cognitive aptitudes with a choice versus no-choice treatment manipulation in grades 4-5. Three sets of simple regression results highlighted the differential effects of treatment on individuals versus classes. (Author/RL)

In a study conducted in Ireland, factor analysis of IQ, mathematics, and English standardized test scores, together with the 15 teacher ratings, showed that there is overlap between ratings and test results but that the information obtained is not redundant. (Author/RL)

The way a particular clinician judges, from data, the degree to which a child is in the category "learning disabled" was modeled on the basis of clinician's statement of the traits that comprise the handicap. The model illustrates the use of fuzzy set theory. (Author/RL)

There are difficulties in expressing effect sizes on a common metric when some studies use transformed scales to express group differences, or use factorial designs or covariance adjustments to obtain a reduced error term. A common metric on which effect sizes may be standardized is described. (Author/RL)

Naturally occurring aptitude-treatment interactions (ATI) were investigated with three teaching approaches: lecture-recitation, inquiry, and public issues discussion. When the measure of student performance was based on objectives of the approach, the results showed an ATI for ability X anxiety that was partially replicated across studies.…

The effects of an individualized mastery instructional system similar to the Keller plan was compared with a conventional lecture-discussion-recitation system in mathematics courses. In general, the superiority of achievement and attitude outcomes claimed for the Keller plan in many reports was not observed in this study. (Author/RL)

Regions of significance in aptitude-by-treatment-interaction studies are examined by the traditional statistical approach and an alternative approach which integrates: (1) testing for the parallelism of two or more regression lines; (2) testing for their identity; and (3) Scheffe's theorem. (Author/RL)