Classroom visits by principals were found to be successful in helping some teachers maintain the use of skills learned in an in-service teacher training program. (Editor/MM)

A skill-centered approach to teaching reading to children in grades K-6 in 80 elementary schools resulted in improved reading performance during a five-year program. (Editor/MM)

Frequent informal interactions between faculty and students are positively related to the students' academic performance and self-perceived personal growth. (ED)

By the fifth grade no differences were found between the order of adjectives in a sentence preferred by children and by adults. (ED/JD)

College students with an internal locus of control favored faculty members with a low control teaching style, while a highly controlling teaching style appealed to students with an external locus of control. (ED)

In a study of declining college entrance examination scores, it was found that student-related factors, such as academic courses taken, were more closely related to test scores than school-related or family structure factors. (ED.)

After analyzing four methods of selecting distractor items for multiple-choice tests, the authors recommend that classroom teachers use their own judgment in choosing test items. (Ed.)

Contrary to prediction, failure feedback increased the performance of all fifth graders involved in this study, whether they had scored high or low on a locus of control measure. (Ed./JD)

In a study involving the reading of bar graphs it was found that students in the control group (who did not receive generalization cues) did significantly better than those in the experimental group. (Ed.)

Students high in moral development cheated less than other students overall, but in a low threat/low supervision situation, they were just as likely to cheat as subjects low in moral development. (Ed.)

It was found that students evaluated their schools more highly when the school demanded more of them and offered high standards and opportunities for dramatic resistance to highly structured situations. (JD)

Increased activity during the teaching of spelling words resulted in hyperactive children having greater difficulty than the normal children in distinguishing relevant tasks from the extraneous stimulation. (Ed.)

This study assessed the effect of mutuality of control orientation between group leaders with internal locus of control and external locus of control and members with similar characteristics; group members working with external leaders became more internal than did group members whose leaders were internal. (JD)

In a study of economically disadvantaged college freshmen it was found that the only significant differentiating factor between them and the average student was grades. (JD)

High school students agreed with their teachers in evaluating student teachers on control in the classroom, personality in relating to students, and help given to students. Agreement did not exist on assessments of the variety of learning activities used by student teachers. (JD)