Control by the use of behavior modification procedures is examined with regard to principles of reinforcement ordinarily in operation in daily living. Ethics of interpersonal control, particularly in the therapeutic relationship, is shown to be a pseudo issue and becomes, rather a question of purposes, methods, and materials. (Author/NQ)

The study compared sentence elaboration, verbal praise, and information feedback training on paired-associate learning; and compared treatments on four second-list transfer paradigms (facilitative, neutral, and interfering). One hundred twenty middle class, high I.Q. second graders were trained to criterion, then given three trials on the transfer…

A cross-sectional examination of attitudinal differences between 160 seventh, eighth, and ninth grade students in an open education program and a nearly equal number of students in a traditional program, the study used the Attitude Toward School survey to assess the effect of open education as compared with the traditional program. (Author/NQ)

The first member of the American Psychological Association in Mississippi was a woman, and the field has been influenced by women continuously to the present. (NQ)

This article demonstrates how the "discovery method" of teaching can be used in a basic graduate statistics course in education. The development of a technique for measuring the relationship between two variables is used in the course of this demonstration. (Author)

The emerging criminal justice education programs are confronted with many current issues or dilemmas about their status and function. This article discusses some of the more poignet issues: theory vs. applied; education vs. training; credit for life experiences; the quality of criminal justice education; accreditation of criminal justice education…

The study involved a followup of 125 doctoral students in counseling psychology at 20 southern universities who completed the Personality Research Form. Three years later, subjects were followed up to determine functional specialty performed (administrator, practitioner, or other) and degree of job satisfaction (extremely satisfied, mildly…

The present paper outlines the potential of the simultaneous-successive model of cognitive processing as a framework for understanding and ultimately remediating reading difficulties. (Author)

Performance of 237 students in 10 inner-city 8th grade math classes was assessed under 5 different sets of instructional conditions. Results indicated playing an instructional mathematics game over a two-year period and working with Instructional Math Play (IMP) kits for 2 weeks improved math ability better than any other combination. (JC)

The central purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of distractions in nonverbal problems on the problem solving behavior and performance of young children (grades 1-3) in 6 schools (N=360). Results indicated 66 percent of the subjects were distracted by irrelevant spatial-numerical or color attribute uses. (JC)

The WISC, Piagetian logico-mathematical and representational space tasks, the Frostig DTVP and a motor ability test were administered to elementary children at 3 age and arithmetic achievement levels to determine whether specific patterns of cognitive and/or spatial development were related to arithmetic achievement and whether patterns varied…

The effectiveness of simulation games as a method for teaching superordinate concepts was tested via a week-long experiment involving 183 fifth and sixth-grade students in the development of map skills. The simulation group demonstrated superior performance on the delayed posttest but not on the immediate posttest. (JC)

An Alberta survey of the views of nine different groups on school discipline was conducted during the 1975-76 school year. Considerable satisfaction with the existing state of school discipline was found, though participants who did call for change called for stricter discipline. (JC)

This research examines the question of variability in scholastic achievement and focuses in particular on the language factors argument concerning the relationship between reading competency and the multiple subject-matter outcomes of schooling. (Author/RK)

This research examines whether instruction in test wiseness would result in higher test scores, using both standardized and specially constructed tests as criterion measures. (Author/RK)