This monograph includes chapters on: (1) The Need for Educational Productivity Research; (2) Syntheses of Research on Factors Influencing Learning; (3) Contextual and Transactional Influences on Science Outcomes; (4) Identifying the Salient Facets of a Model of Student Learning: A Synthesis of Meta-Analysis; and (5) Use of National Survey Data in…

The specification and estimation of a partial least squares model is discussed in terms of assessing the magnitude of the effects of a variety of differences among Swedish schools on the cognitive and affective outcomes of lower secondary students in science. (Author/SB)

The article describes a study to determine how instruction on the distinction between two theoretical ideas will affect the intake, interpretation, and recall of new information related to but different from the first. (Author/SB)

A study dealing with the sport interests of adolescents reveals significant relationships between different passive sport interests, and a relationship of active and passive sport interests which decreases with age and depends to some degree on social background. The study upholds previously determined relationships between sex and sport activity.…

Exploring the complexities of the trustee-president authority relationship, 60 college and university presidents and 61 board chairmen were surveyed on their relations with their opposite members. Ten board chairmen and 10 presidents were then personally interviewed. Personal relations emerged as the most important aspect of the trustee-president…

Comparing the effectiveness of different strategies for remediating teacher weaknesses, as measured by the Instrument for Observation of Teaching Activities (IOTA), 99 elementary and junior high school teachers were observed. The study revealed that combining IOTA feedback with structured inservice workshops focusing on narrow specific weaknesses…

Comparison of seven levels of student-teacher compatibility with student achievement found a positive significant relationship between total compatibility and compatibility in the personal need for inclusion with student achievement. Limited evidence was also found for a relationship between achievement and pupil-teacher compatibility in the…

To determine if university students would accurately report their grade point averages (GPAs) to a researcher, 525 students were asked to fill out data sheets. When 62 of the self-reported GPAs were compared with official records no significant differences were found, indicating students can and will accurately report their GPAs. (DS)

Total scores from a series of classroom examinations compared with the order in which students completed the tests showed a relationship between completion time and test score. The first half of the students to finish scored significantly higher than the last half. (DS)

To determine faculty perceptions of equability of university salaries, a questionnaire survey queried faculty of a large southeastern university whether they considered themselves overpaid, adequately paid or underpaid and how this perception related to job effectiveness. Results indicate that poorly-conceived compensation may adversely affect…

Reports findings of a baseline questionnaire survey of music supervision in Canada with respect to music supervisor tasks. Describes a profile of music supervisor tasks and makes comparisons by geographic region, music supervisor type, and jurisdiction size type. Discusses the implications for a theoretical model of music supervisor function.…

Investigation of the relationship between systematic computational errors and achievement among native Indian children indicated a significant relationship between error type and achievement in multiplication but not in addition or subtraction. In multiplication, high achievers tended to make nonsystematic errors; low achievers tended to make…

Results indicated considerable difference in total number of running words among series; an increase in different words for grades two-three in each series; repetition of most words in each series between one and nine times; and no high degree of word overlap between series or grades in any given series. (Author/CM)

Forty-two experienced teachers rated a set of reading passages by the SEER and the Rauding procedures. Findings indicated that the two procedures resulted in significantly different ratings, that teaching experience did not affect the rating, and that the SEER ratings agreed substantially with readability formula estimates of the same passages.…

The fact that a significant amount of release from proactive interference was obtained with subjects in this study by shifting between differentially arousing categories of words suggested that rated word arousal is an encoding dimension in short-term memory. (CM)