Seeking to compare the original Wechler Intelligence Scale (WISC) with its revised version, the WISC-R, this study compared WISC-R scores of 50 Black children with their WISC scores taken two years previously. Mean scores on the WISC-R were lower on the Verbal Scale, Performance Scale, and Full Scale. (DS)

Among the variables considered, the best predictor of achievement in biology is the IQ of the students; the type of ninth-grade science course completed seems to have very little to do with subsequent performance in biology. (DS)

Identified perceived leadership styles of student teachers and their supervising teachers and compared leadership styles of elementary and secondary student teachers. Student teachers saw themselves as having greater concern for students than did their supervising teachers. Secondary student teachers were significantly more task-oriented than…

Tested 103 schoolchildren to investigate the hypothesis that the brightest students tend to have last names toward the beginning of the alphabet. Significant relationships between alphabetical position of surnames and intelligence were found, but the relationships existed only for third graders and were gone by the fifth grade. (DS)

Discusses the development of a school psychology practicum via a cooperative arrangement between the University of Southern Mississippi and the Hattiesburg school system. Outlines the wide range of training experiences available in this type of setting and discusses practicum requirements and student evaluation procedures. (Author/DS)

Determined why rural women teachers desire to continue their education and whether current programs meet their perceived needs. Apparently certain demographic and personal variables (race, grades taught, family reaction, husband's occupation) are factors that influence whether the women pursue higher education and the types of courses they desire.…

Develops a model that describes the bases of power and authority in formal organizations. Available from the Bureau of Research, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, Colorado 80639; single copy $1.50. (IRT)

Half of a sample of 588 Oslo sixth-graders took originality tests in a relaxed atmosphere and half in a stressful environment. The percentages of very low and very high scores were lower in the stressful group, regardless of the sex, intelligence, or test anxiety of the subjects. (Author/SJL)

Think aloud data were gathered from 19 subjects solving three statistical problems. Good problem solvers differed from poor in that they (1) more often clarified essential concepts related to the problem, or (2) appeared to attend more closely to what was actually asked for in the problem. (Author/SJL)

The article explores the possible relationship between student evaluation of teaching (SET) and level in the cognitive domain of college courses by searching the available published literature and utilizing rationalistic concepts of human behavior. (Author/NQ)

A component of the self related to the school learning experience, academic self-concept, is isolated. A causal model, outlining the process of academic self-concept formation, is subjected to a path analytic solution for a sample of white and black high school youth residing in a large midwestern metropolitan area. (Author/NQ)

One hundred and sixty-three undergraduate seniors rated various aspects of their first experience with a criterion referenced grading system in an educational psychology course. Chi square analyses were used to identify different attitudes between groups across semesters, sex of students, and classes of varying size. (Author/NQ)

Five methods of coordinating basal reading instruction with other instruction in grades one and two were compared: spelling words from readers, no formal composition; spelling from lists and spellers, no formal composition; composition related to the readers, no formal spelling; composition not related to the readers, no formal spelling; and no…

The article discusses the need for research in the area of social giftedness, validates the developmental evolution of social behavior in young children, and suggests that advanced attainment of these stages is indicative of social precocity. (NQ)

The study compared two methods of task presentation which differed primarily in terms of sequence characteristics. Sixty 4th graders were randomly assigned to one of two treatment groups and taught concepts of mathematical symmetry for three days. A criterion measure was administered on the fourth day to assess initial learning and again six weeks…