A study of eighty Canadian kindergarten children showed that discrimination of similar letters was more difficult than distinctive letter discrimination, irrespective of training format or mode of testing. (MJB)

Contrary to popular belief, and in accordance with research over a long period of time, changed answers to objective test items tend to be correct. (MJB)

Testing of a group of kindergarten children generally supported the hypotheses that (1) children from schools in higher socioeconomic areas would have significantly more advanced concepts of language than children in lower socioeconomic areas and (2) that this conceptual development would be correlated with more conventional measures of reading…

Perceptions of the role of vocational counselors vary among secondary school counselors, principals, vocational directors, and vocational counselors themselves, a factor that can lead to conflict and morale problems in local schools. (MJB)

Inner-city teachers reported a significnatly greater frequency of problems associated with factors labeled remediation, professional autonomy, and control. However, with respect to the extent that problems were reported to be bothersome, no significant differences among teacher-location groups were observed. (RC)

The results of this study indicate that with pupil intelligence considered, the percentage of time which pupils spend in on-task-performance is not consistently correlated with pupil achievement. (RC)

The findings of this study indicate that developmental stages in the acquisition of written German did exist and that these stages were most clearly definable between every other level. (RC)

Seven principles are presented that can serve as guides to school principals. (RC)

It was concluded, from this study, that the short-term training was enough to train the teachers to use an instrument for assessment, but not enough to bring about behavior change. (RC)

This study investigated the hypothesis that intra-sentence grammatical constraints guide reader sampling of the visual display by examining the effect of these constraints on the reading of sentences by skilled adult readers. (RC)

In this study posttest performance resulting from total feedback, partial feedback, and no feedback in a multiple-choice test was compared. (RC)

This study found that parents of first graders did use a daily recorded message prepared by the teacher and that it resulted in improved spelling performance by every student and in better compliance with non-academic instructions by families. (PCB)

It was found that those doing copying practice exercises achieved significantly higher posttest scores than those doing tracing practice exercises. (PCB)

This study showed that course-acquired knowledge can apparently be kept fresh over long periods by small amounts of properly spaced review activities. (PCB)