A program of training in visual analysis (visual short-term memory, discrimination of letters and words, and remedial instruction) proved no more effective than a remedial program without visual training in improving the reading skills of second-and third-grade nonreaders with visual perceptual difficulties. (MJB)

Female college students with study problems could be differentiated from those without through measures of study skills knowledge and use, adjustment difficulties, and academic aptitude, while males could not be differentiated. Males in a study skills course reported greater adjustment problems and lower math and social science scores than those…

Chinese students, in this study of fifth-, eighth-, eleventh-graders, were consistently lower in test wiseness than their American counterparts. (MJB)

The hypothesis that teen counselors would be preferred over regular teachers, and would be a factor in sixth-grade students' retaining information on drug and substance abuse, was strongly supported by a consumer questionnaire. A knowledge test, however, did not support the hypothesis. (MJB)

Students with two cognitive styles (field dependent/field independent) generally produced the best examination scores when they used a nonpreferred study technique and reviewed. (Author)

This survey of 11-, 12-, and 15-year-old English schoolchildren suggests that (1) at each level of family environment, increases in affective characteristics are associated with increments in cognitive scores, and (2) at each level of attitudes toward school and locus of control, increases in family environment scores are related to increments in…

Student self-pacing in a college-level, individualized political science course resulted in a significantly higher rate of student withdrawal as compared to the same course with instructor-pacing, a fact that the authors found attributable to failure to maintain a steady quiz-taking pace and to poor performance on quizzes. (MJB)

Research on teacher survival rates during the first three years of the teaching experience indicate that scores on preadmission interviews are a useful predictor of survival in the early teaching years. (MJB)

Analysis of performance levels revealed no significant difference between a control group (which consistently received beans as an incentive to achievement) and an experimental group (which first received bubblegum and then beans), suggesting that the results reflect the group's academic ability rather than their preference for bubblegum over…

In this study of a self-paced, college-level, calculus course the effects of individualized instruction on achievement and attitudes toward the course were highest with the most highly motivated students. (MJB)

Academically successful university students, after being taught effective study skills, had significantly higher approval of their teachers and gained insight into their own study habits, but did not differ significantly from a control group in semester grade point average. (MJB)

Evaluation of a model of the dynamics of cumulative achievement, used to develop an instrument for predicting scholastic achievement, suggests that, while the instrumentation needs to be improved, reliability of the model-based approach warrants further work. (MJB)

Perceived student-teacher interpersonal similarity/dissimilarity (homophily/heterophily) was explored as a possible construct for deciphering the determinants of teaching effectiveness and for gauging teaching effectiveness. (MJB)

Implementation of this competency-based data processing course avoided the high start-up costs of self-paced instructional methodology, yet still resulted in increases in (1) levels of student competency, (2) student satisfaction, (3) average grade, (4) positive level of student evaluation of the teacher, and (5) proportion of students completing…

One may ask of an inquiry claiming to be educational research whether its subject matter is a human activity, whether it involves a generative process, the transmission of something worthwhile, the development of persons, is imbued with intention and purpose, and is systematic. (MJB)