Data reported here support the view that an increase in anxiety exerts an interfering effect on test performance and suggest that attempts should be made to minimize increases and to decrease anxiety levels of students on test days. (Author/JC)

Hypothesizing that when the motive to succeed (MS) is greater than the motive to avoid failure (MAF), the student teacher responds more positively and does better in the field experience than when MS is less than MAF, two samples of male and female student teachers were compared. (Author/JC)

A survey of the opinions of University of Alberta graduates from the Alberta Industrial Arts Curriculum revealed that the Alberta program was broader in scope than any other program investigated but the teacher graduates perceived their preparation as being adequate only to teach at the junior high school level. (Author/JC)

Assessing the conditional reasoning ability of 464 adolescents as effected by the presence of suggestive and concrete familiar content and negations in various parts of the arguments, 4 basic principles of reasoning were examined: modus ponens, inversion, conversion, and contraposition. (Author/JC)

Teacher behavior variables in an experimental teacher training study were coded in two ways; one method of coding was based on the formal structural properties of discrete teaching acts; the other method of coding was based upon the functional properties (consequential student behaviors) of discrete teaching acts. (Author/JC)

The selection procedures for community college trustees in Alberta were examined by means of surveying 35 newly appointed board members and soliciting their perceptions of the selection procedures. (JC)

Speaking broadly, the Russian revolutionary movement served as the channel of communication between the most radical thinkers of Western Europe and the traditional culture. (Author/JC)

The efficiency of several visual and auditory predictors of the Metropolitan Readiness Test was examined utilizing 106 grade 1 subjects considered by their teachers to show learning difficulties. (Author/JC)

Forty students from the first, second, fourth, and sixth grades (10 from each), equally balanced for sex and representing a middle class SES, were individually administered mathematical tasks of matching, equality, cardination, and measure and Piagetian conservation task of number, length, and surface or area. (NQ)

The article proposes that there are three possible relationships between religion and counseling/psychology: (1) religion and counseling are identical, (2) religion and counseling converge or overlap, and (3) religion and counseling are different and distinct. Examples of each combination are discussed, particularly in reference to the writings in…

The study examined: (1) whether or not there was a positive relationship between environmental attitudes and environmental knowledge, and (2) how any relationship that might exist varied among student sub-groups. The "Environmental Knowledge and Attitude Inventory" was administered to 75 rural, 120 suburban, and 102 inner city high school…

Rankings of the importance of five competency areas (classroom instruction, human relations, planning, evaluation, and professionalism) deemed necessary for supervising teachers were obtained from university faculty members, public school placement directors, school principals, and teachers. (Author/NQ)

Forty Canadian Indian children in grades three and four were divided into two groups and given a minimum and a maximum remediation program to improve their sequential learning processes. The maximum program resulted in significant improvement in sequential tasks such as auditory and visual memory and reading tests. (JC)

Data on the semantic proximity of classical mechanics concepts, obtained by means of a cross-sectional investigation (100 subjects) using a continued word association test, were analyzed by individual difference multidimensional scaling to permit the mapping of semantic space for individual subjects. (JC)

An attempt is made to show that the use of analysis of covariance and other techniques to control nuisance variables in nonexperimental educational research may present more problems than is commonly acknowledged. (JC)