There is evidence that both preferences and beliefs of student teachers can be altered by the influence of a student teaching program. (MM)

The Cooperative School and College Ability Test (SCAT) was found to be the best overall predictor of cumulative grade point average and success in professional education courses. (MM)

The effect upon pupil performance of providing elementary level teachers various types of standardized test information was assessed - and found to have little impact on student achievement. (MM)

Student teachers in an eight-week practicum gained as much teaching sophistication as those in a 16-week program. (MM)

A high level of informal contact with faculty members by college freshmen was associated with positive views of their academic and non-academic lives and persistence at the institution. (MM)

An expectancy model for predicting academic achievement was found to be a potentially useful tool for understanding factors that influence effort and performance. (MM)

Students with an internal locus of control functioned well under a variety of conditions while students needing extrinsic reinforcement functioned well only when feedback was provided by the experimenter. (MM)

This procedure for measuring the learning of fifth- and sixth-grade students stressed each child's progress in relation to self as well as to position in the class. (MM)

Relationships between cheating and distracting study conditions are studied in light of the premise that if an individual is frustrated in his attempts to learn he will be more likely to cheat. (MM)

First-grade reading readiness and later academic achievement of children were studied in a program developed specifically for disadvantaged preschoolers. (MM)

By analyzing children's verbal responses to various types of questions, understanding was increased about the impact of classroom questions upon young children's oral language development. (MM)

This pilot study compared two empirically-derived, option-weighting methods and the resultant effect on the reliability and validity of multiple choice test scores as compared with conventional rights-only scoring. (MM)

The effect of an intensive camp counseling experience with institutionalized, emotionally disturbed adolescents on the perceptions of the camp counselors regarding the disturbingness of certain child behaviors was investigated. (MM)

Items missed on the PPVT were analyzed according to race and sex; results indicated that an alternative form of the test might use stimulus words other than those missed by a disproportinate number of subjects in this study. (MM)

The kind of paper used in handwriting lessons for kindergarten children appears to have no effect on the quality of writing. (MM)