One problem with readability formulas is that they are generally calculated on factors at the sentence and subsentence level. However, the representation of text through information structures is equally important. The complexity of information structures and their realizations will affect reading difficulty and should be incorporated into…

Essays discussing the influence of change upon the lives of English and Papua-New Guinean adolescents were analyzed. Younger adolescents saw change in relation to their own lives as immediate, direct, and brief. As age increased, so did the ability to view change comprehensively and to understand the change-stability cycle. (Author/SK)

Forty-two Nigerian secondary schools gave information about learning resources in pupils' homes, school-provided textbooks and newspapers, classroom furniture and equipment, staffing ratios, games and recreational facilities, and parental support. In most categories, rural schools were less well equipped than urban schools, an inequity possibly…

Two groups of elementary education majors were studied: one with training in mainstreaming and one without. For comparison, a group of special education majors were included. Findings indicated that the training was effective in improving the attitudes of the first group toward the disabled and their integration into the classroom. (Author/SK)

The effects of penmanship, complexity and accuracy of prose, length of answers, and use of quotations on marks awarded by English literature examiners were studied. The sex of students and examiners, untidiness, and prose complexity and accuracy were unrelated to grades. The results suggested that examiners avoid crediting students for…

A choice of friends questionnaire and interviews were used to examine how pupils of similar ability perceived themselves in relation to their peers and to the school system. While the formation of group cohesiveness among remedial children was identified, this did not correlate with antischool values and negative self-images. (Author/SK)

This paper analyzes the value of a model devised by Taylor for the analysis of teacher-pupil talk in one-to-one tutorials or counseling sessions. It is concluded that the model offers a useful tool and a valuable inservice teaching device to help teachers improve their guidance and counseling skills. (Author/SK)

Preference for field dependence independence and verbal imagery was assessed in 96 14-year-olds. Their map reading performance was measured in terms of map-aerial photograph correlation, symbol translation, and view identification. The results suggest that map reading performance depends on the learning style, sex of the pupil, and the type of…

Seventy-nine first-year and 85 third-year students were tested on the meanings of French words from vocabulary lists. Twenty percent were then taught memory-improvement strategies, 20 percent were taught strategies and given guided practice, and 20 percent learned the lists without aids. The strategies significantly improved the performance of…

A review of research in reading comprehension is presented. The role of language in comprehension is analyzed and implications are drawn for actual practice by primary teachers in the reading curriculum. (Author/SK)

This paper outlines some of the general characteristics of current LEA (Local Educational Agency)-inspired self-evaluation schemes and suggests that they may be usefully viewed from an organizational development standpoint. The construction and use of a self-evaluation instrument which was informed by such a perspective is briefly described.…

The article reports an experiment on microteaching and classroom performance which examined the relationships of extraversion, anxiety, and teacher training methods. The implications of previous research that there are disordinal interactions between specified methods of instruction and extraversion were investigated in the context of methods of…

This paper proposes that the practice of teaching is an interactional activity involving "handling" pupils on the basis of an organized learning experience. The teacher's expertise in handling, it is argued, stems primarily from an on-the-job accumulation of "contextual theory" which guides classroom interventions. (Author/CT)

Contributions of personality, temperament, work style and satisfaction to performance in school were assessed along with measures of teaching style and teachers' global ratings of student performance and behavior in 133 high school students aged 15-17 years. Significant relationships emerged between student grades in class and…

Describes a pilot project for pupil tutoring in which six "persistent truants" (aged 15 plus) were placed in a primary school to tutor 12 children ages five through eight who had been identified as "slow learners" by their teacher. (Author/CT)