Reports on an empirical investigation of behaviors exhibited by early elementary school children while viewing two programs of a children's bilingual multicultural educational television series. The effects of the program on group membership, grade level and sex during viewing were examined. (Author/DEP)

Nonprogrammers learned a computer programming language and took a transfer posttest. Subjects who were given pretraining with a model of the computer before learning performed better on novel transfer and worse on near transfer relative to no-pretraining subjects. (Author/DEP)

Investigates the differences in attitudes toward academic achievement and personality characteristics of third generation Japanese Americans (Sanseis). Sanseis were grouped by sex and high and low achievers and were administered the Adjective Check List and the Asian American Survey. Results show that Sanseis are relatively heterogeneous with…

Two experiments investigated the effects of color coding sounds in Thai syllables on the acquisition of pronunciation responses and on transfer to syllables which are not color coded. (Author/DEP)

This study explored the hypothesis that task variables account for previous findings that reading rate is unaffected by readability. The findings suggest that when appropriate reading tasks are chosen, reading rate can be used to infer underlying processes in reading. (Author/DEP)

The results of this study show that children's recall of simple prose passages can be significantly affected by the structure of those passages and that the awareness of these effects increases with age. (Author/DEP)

Results show that nonstandard and Hawaiian English speakers' comprehension was easier and more accurate with the nonstandard than the standard English stories and the standard English speakers' comprehension was easier and more accurate with the standard than the nonstandard English stories. (Author/DEP)

Results of this study demonstrate that department chairmen of academic departments, classified according to Holland's model environments, devote significantly different amounts of time to selected dimensions of their job and that these differences are generally consistent with the psychological resemblances among these environments. (Author/DEP)

Tests, with five groups, the production of facilitative transfer effects with the use of five abstract passages. It was predicted, based on assumptions about knowledge structures that three of the groups would recall more from the second passage than would the latter two groups. The results confirmed this prediction. (Author/DEP)

Effects of three intervention procedures were compared in increasing academic achievement and level of appropriate behavior for children with relatively low rates of appropriate behavior. A significant experimental/control group difference, favoring experimentals, was found for reading and math achievement and level of appropriate behavior.…

Results show that student differences in time-on-task to learn to criterion are alterable and can be minimized over a sequence of learning units given appropriate adaptive learning strategies. (Author/DEP)

The results indicate that although relational concepts influence the cognitive aptitudes which are reflected in analogy item performance, success in solving analogies does not depend on individual differences in some major aspects of processing relationships. (Author/DEP)

Two experiments using two versions of the missionary and cannibal problem investigated the conditions under which the specification of a subgoal would facilitate problem solving. Specification of a subgoal in the smaller problem space improved performance only in reaching the subgoal when it was not too distant from the initial state. (Author/DEP)

Examines the types of stressful situations graduate students encounter and delineates styles of coping with these situations. (Author/DEP)

The Wallach and Kogan Creativity Battery, a self report questionnaire of creative activities, and a group intelligence test were administered to an entire Israeli high school senior class. Creative activity was found to be related to creative thinking but not to intelligence or school grades. (Author/DEP)