Immediate post-testing of high school students after they studied a prose passage improved their memory significantly. (JD)

The use of longer mathematics assignments with fourth- and sixth-grade students resulted in improved student behavior and a greater number of correct answers. (Editor)

School attendance of elementary students who had previously been chronically absent improved with home contacts by either the principal or a school secretary. (Editor)

The best predictor of drug use among secondary school dropouts is the absence of an adult male in the home. (Editor)

No significant interaction was found between the field independent cognitive style and the level of guidance in mathematics instruction in a study involving prospective elementary school teachers. (Editor)

Four variations of the cloze procedure were tested. It was concluded that the matching procedure is best suited for testing English-as-a-second-language students at the elementary level. (Editor)

A study of Australian students from six ethnic groups supports the idea that if children from different cultural groups have distinct patterns of cognitive scores, they also have distinct patterns of family learning environments. (Editor)

Students given evaluation level objectives did as well on relevant and incidental learning as did a control group, while those given knowledge level objectives achieved less incidental learning at the evaluation level. (Editor)

A survey of the perceived competencies and needs of elementary and special education teachers revealed that keeping order in the classroom and developing students' social skills were areas in which the teachers' need for competency was higher than their proficiency. (Editor)

Teachers rated the likelihood of mainstreaming success of a hypothetical disturbed child according to their tolerance for socially defiant behaviors. (Editor)

Having all students in a group respond to every question, rather than addressing questions to one student at a time, resulted in better behavior and content achievement among third graders. (Editor)

Error patterns identified in cloze tests for independent, instructional, and frustration reading levels could be useful in diagnostic work and placing of students in appropriate reading levels. (Editor)

College students instructed to "fake good" on a test of moral reasoning were unable to do so, but they could lower their scores significantly when directed to. (Editor)

This experiment examines the impact of a higher-order question teaching strategy on student process (classroom behaviors) and product (achievement and attitude) variables. Results generally show some impact on student process variables but little positive impact on student product variables. (Author/JMF)

Results indicate that exposure to individualized instruction had a favorable impact on attitudes of fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade pupils. (JMF)