Discusses a study in which 60 elementary school children were divided into groups on the basis of verbal-imagery learning style. Students were given information in pictorial and/or written form and then tested with regard to immediate questioned recall. Results are presented. (Author/DB)

The article presents a number of case studies of high school faculty handbooks in order to ascertain broad areas of information and viewpoints expressed. Discusses approaches and emphases in preparing manuals, implications of alternative approaches, and the rationale of approaches to manual compilation. (Author/DB)

Identifies strategies identified by psychologists as effective aids to long-term remembering, traces the relationship between memory skills and memory development, investigates metamemory, and suggests implications of memory development for the mentally handicapped. (Author/DB)

Compares three statistical methods for measuring the weight of examination components in determining the ranking of overall results. The authors demonstrate the limitations in using standard deviation and part-with-whole correlations and show how covariance techniques provide the best indicators of component weights. Theoretical objections to the…

Describes a British project to develop a sophisticated checklist which would adequately describe teachers' jobs. Included is a discussion of the methodology used to identify teaching tasks and to compile and structure checklist categories. Preliminary and final checklist structures are compared. (AM)

Describes a study which investigated the relationship between level of cognitive development and mathematics performance for college-age males and females. Ninety-four undergraduate educational psychology students were given mathematics and cognitive exams. Findings indicated significant sex differences in mathematical performance but not in…

Describes a study which investigated how much teachers of children with severe learning disabilities alter their grammatical complexity, sentence length, and vocabulary to match the developmental level of their students. (AM)

Presents a study which investigated the family learning environments of 990, 11-year-old children from 12 Australian primary schools. Interviews with parents inventoried their aspirations, attitudes towards their childrens' achievements and independence, and their stress on English and reading skills. (AM)

Examines the implications of decreasing pupil populations on educational standards, humanpower use, building policy, and curriculum in England and Wales. The government's use of declining enrollments to justify cuts in education expenditures is discussed. The author advocates giving more attention to long-term planning to improve educational…

Discusses the reception of John Dewey's ideas in China when he visited that country during the early 1920s. Dewey's specific references to grassroots political development and pragmatic education were well received because they were in harmony with certain basic Chinese values. Dewey's liberalism was rejected because it was not. (RM)

Traces Lyndon Johnson's life-long involvement with education, including a discussion of educational legislation passed during his presidency. How his actions assured the passage of that legislation is also described. (RM)

Draws lessons for contemporary education from Plato's "Memo." The author makes the point that what it has to tell us will depend on what we are seeking. (RM)

A cross-year group and longitudinal study was conducted to investigate the influence of race on friendship preferences of pupils in a multi-racial, secondary school in Britain. Results indicate that students were more friendly to classmates of the same sex, regardless of race, than to classmates of the same race but other sex. (Author/AM)

Infants' School teachers in England and Wales were questioned on their use of educational television. Teachers use language and general interest series extensively, and mathematics series to a much less extent, but they do not incorporate these series into the curriculum. (AM)

To build a profile of adolescent religious ideas and practices, an experiment investigated the extent that measures for attitudes toward religion and other people, religious behavior, compassionate behavior, religious thinking, and general intelligence function independently. These measures were also investigated with regard to the variables of…