Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices and a battery of ability tests were administered to a sample of 104 male fourth graders for purposes of investigating the relationships between 2 previously identified subscales of the Raven and the ability tests. Results indicated use of a spatial strategy and to a lesser extent, use of reasoning, indicating…

Cross-modal and intramodal matching ability with visual and auditory content was studied in low, normal, and high IQ fourth-grade children (N=240) who were also administered tests of simultaneous and successive syntheses. Results indicated that simultaneous and successive central processes are involved in modality matching performance and that…

Investigating the effect of sentence-combining practice on the syntactic maturity of written compositions and on reading comprehension, this study involved assignment of seventh grade students to control and experimental groups. Analysis was based on the experimental group's completion of 26 sentence-combining problems (O'Hare's format with some…

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' effect on elementary school students' self-concept when taught by an experimental group of teachers that was less dogmatic than the other group of teachers. Results indicated self-concept was significantly higher among students taught by the experimental group of teachers. (JC)

Briefly outlines the history of the Doctor of Arts Degree and reviews its present status. The Doctor of Arts Degree is described as a post-master's degree designed to prepare college teachers who are also scholars and offers as a major field a discipline broadly interpreted as spanning several related disciplines. (Author/RK)

Examines the function of the Doctor of Arts Degree and the problems that develop in implementing it. Also considers what kind of students should be admitted to the program and looks at four aspects of the program, the disciplinary core, the educational core, the internship, and the dissertation, which should be combined in interdisciplinary…

Discusses some basic assumptions and fears associated with the implementation of the Doctor of Arts Degree at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Also examines the curriculum requirements of the degree and how those who have received the degree have fared as teachers. (Author/RK)

Briefly considers an educational trend, "the concern for the student as an individual", and then looks at equipment on the market that is particularly suitable for accomodating the individual. (Author/RK)

Besides examining the professional characteristics of educational psychologists as a whole, the article looks at differences which characterize the specializations within educational psychology (learning and development, counseling, special education, and measurement). (KR)

This study goes beyond much of previous research by using regression models to generate regression surfaces and by including measures of family and school environments in analyzing relations between personality and measures of cognitive and affective characteristics in Australian 12-year-old children. (Author/KR)

Using 144 high school physics classes as units of analysis, class means on a battery of 57 variables were factored in three different factor sets. Each set included three main factors which could be identified roughly as achievement, affect, and group structure. Results gave further credibility to Bales' work. (Author/KR)

Children in grades 5-7 were shown emotionally ambiguous slides of Japanese and East Indian Canadians paired with positively evaluated words. There was no change in positive attitudes towards the less threatening group (Japanese), but a significant change toward the more threatening group (East Indians), the reverse of the findings of a previous…

The value of Strong's sentence-combining materials in increasing the syntactic maturity of first-year university students is tested and found positive. (KR)

The state of educational research and development is examined in relation to the current Canadian situation. An awareness of international developments is urged, and it is observed that the problems which confront educational research in different countries are similar while solutions differ. (KR)