Results show that peer tutoring (versus adult tutoring) and tokens for reading (versus tokens for attendance) did substantially and significantly improve the rate at which the children learned to read. (Authors)

It was found that graders who are neat writers are biased by the neatness of an essay, and graders who are messy writers are not influenced by this factor of essay neatness." (Authors)

Described and illustrated is the use of the computer program GRADER which returns a letter grade and rank for students. (MB)

Review of book by Leon Lessinger. (MB)

In this survey, author finds that satisfied students are more willing to discuss problems with their residence hall counselors than less satisfied students and that females were more positive about the concept of residence counseling and often described their counselors differently than did males. (MB)

Study evaluates certain common uses of the Brown-Holtzman Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) in a college-level educational skills course. (Authors/MB)

Study asks whether laboratory findings, that isolation of an item facilitates its recall, extend to formal educational settings. (Authors)

A sample of 184 teachers was studied in relation to their first-person point of view of teaching effectiveness. (Author)

Purpose of the study was to determine if primary school children, when exposed to verbal and pictorial descriptions of potentially reinforcing stimuli, could accurately differentiate between the reinforcement potency of these stimuli. (Authors)

Purpose of this paper is to advance the use of measures of association patterned after omega squared in factorial and repeated analysis of variance designs by simplifying the computational procedure through use of a set of generalized rules. (Authors)

Development of tests to measure learning proficiency and learning style is crucial to obtain an understanding of this phenomena. A major objective of curricula in the early years of schooling, especially for low socioeconomic status Negro children, should be to assist them in mastering elaborative learning skills. References. (Author/VW)