Data from the application of word reading, letter recognition, memory and classification tasks to preschool children suggest that word learning ability is more closely tied to cognitive development than is alphabet knowledge and that reading readiness assessment might profit from applying a word learning task. (MB)

Findings from this study involving ninth-grade students in a computer-assisted occupational information program suggest that simulation is a method superior to merely providing information for reading and examination. (MB)

A ten-week program of large-group instruction, task-oriented interaction, and field study resulted in significantly greater empathy on the part of teachers toward minority persons--an attitude change still in evidence two and one-half months after program completion. (MB)

The relationships among retention performance, organizing strategy preference, and grade point average were assessed in 227 college students, with the resulting correlation coefficients suggesting that the type of organizing strategy used in memorizing exerts a strong influence on the recall of paired associates over both short and long periods of…

Findings of this study indicate a high positive evaluation by participants of the Great Lakes Colleges Association--Philadelphia Urban Semester program, designed to help students understand the city, develop self-understanding, and to learn about a field of work related to occupational goals. (MB)

Third- and fourth-graders studying a weather unit taught from an affective approach retained the material better than a control group taught by traditional methods when tested six weeks after completion of the unit. (MM)

Results of this study involving 280 college business students showed that student effort increased significantly using the contract grading method. (MM)

This study evaluates the effects of school desegregation by court-ordered busing on the subsequent dropout rate of minority and majority students. (MM)

This paper reports the construction of a semantic differential instrument to assess primary school teachers' attitudes toward reading and the teaching of reading. (MM)

This study sought to assess the actual and ideal social climate of an undergraduate social science class for educators and to utilize this information to structure a subsequent class on the same topic in a way perceived to more closely approximate an ideal situation. (MJB)

A simulation device described that measures a teacher's ability to identify verbal and nonverbal emotions expressed by students through the use of videotaped excerpts of teacher-learner interactions and accompanying multiple-choice instrumentation. (MJB)

Interviews with student teachers indicated that--from the viewpoint of the trainees--meaningful inputs to the socialization process are not limited to those made by the cooperating teachers, but also include non-involved teachers, pupils, and spouses, as well as a wide range of other individuals. (MJB)