Responds to Krull's conclusions (1994) that higher educational attainment is indirectly related to sexual promiscuity through more liberal attitudes toward premarital sex. Criticizes Krull's omission of certain variables, recoding of variables, and assumption of a one-way causal relationship between sexual attitudes and behaviors. Reanalysis with…

Describes a University of Alberta project that focuses on family interventions to enhance the resilience of high-risk children with developmental disorders; the project's research phase, which compares and evaluates three interventions (family-centered assessment and intervention planning, natural teaching strategies, and cooperative family…

The results of this study provide evidence that schools reduce the variance of learned cognitive skills among children. (MM)

Matching of students and teachers on the basis of race did not improve student performance, but students of black teachers with less than five years' experience were found to have better vocabulary achievement than students of white teachers with similar experience. (MM)

This study used a series of analogy problems to test children's associative and conceptual abilities and showed that children with stronger associative abilities do not rely excessively on associative strategies. (MM)

In this study, children became more negative in their attitudes toward handicapped peers after group discussion but did not change their views on normal-appearing children. (MM)

This study showed that culture conflict and achievement motivation were the most important of five factors affecting academic achievement of Indian high school students in Seattle, Washington. (MM)

The general problem of admitting underprepared students to an urban university is discussed, and a study is reported that found disadvantaged freshmen did significantly better than a control group when offered counseling, instruction, and tutoring by a specially trained faculty team. (MM)

College students who read material with advance organizers presented either before the passage or interspersed in the text did not recall significantly more information than did a control group presented with the text only. (MM)

This study of sixth graders showed that deductive teaching was significantly more effective than inductive instruction for some pupils. (MM)

Low principal-student interaction was correlated with positive teacher attitudes and high student achievement in this study involving nearly 7,000 students in 45 schools. (MM)

Black ninth graders did better on a black-dialect reading test than on the standard English form of the same test. (MM)

It was found that a student's attitude toward a specific college course could be measured and improved by applying cognitive dissonance theory assumptions in a formal plan of attitudinal change. (MM)

In an attempt to develop a widely applicable, practical means of reducing students' alienation from school, family, and community by increasing self-ideal congruence, encounter groups were offered as elective courses to 10th-grade students; results suggest limited positive results. (MM)

No significant difference was found between elementary students' reading development in control groups and in classes whose teachers had one of three feedback/incentive conditions: monitoring, verbal reinforcement, and monetary rewards. (MM)