Evaluated correlations between Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, Woodcock-Johnson (W-J) Achievement clusters, Woodcock-Johnson Aptitude clusters, and Broad Cognitive Ability Score in 60 Behavior-Disordered male adolescents. Aptitude cluster scores had insufficient validity to justify computation for population; Broad Cognitive…

Compared nationwide survey responses of 225 school psychologists to their responses in 1981-82. Results revealed significant increases in amount of time spent in consultation and amount of time desired for consultation; significant decreases in psychologist-student ratio and overall satisfaction with profession. Sex differences were found for…

Surveyed 400 regular and special educators from New York and Massachusetts on mainstreaming attitudes and perceptions of handicapped exceptional children. Results, implications, and future research directions are discussed, so that services to handicapped exceptional children can be improved and implemented. (Author)

Describes consumer feedback system procedure for gathering accountability data on school psychology interns which involved soliciting feedback, through questionnaires from teachers, parents, and students with whom interns worked. Explains development, implementation, and utilization of system, explores drawbacks, and presents benefits to interns…

Presents data from a 1-year follow-up of school-age children who had received structure-based remediation techniques for demonstrated deficiencies in specific areas of cognitive control functioning. The significant improvement in cognitive control functioning resulting from cognitive intervention was maintained one year following discontinuation…

Presents results of two case studies in which parents served as cotherapists in a social cognitive problem-solving program: a 9-year-old boy referred for distractibility, immaturity, and impulsivity, and an 8-year-old boy referred for aggressive behaviors. (Author/NRB)

Examined effectiveness of selected lessons from the Toward Affective Development program in creating awareness of alternatives in psychosocial situations among 60 sixth-grade children. Treatment consisted of presentation of 18 selected lessons from the program. Comparison of pre- and post-test data indicated positive effect of treatment.…

Presents data from 2-year follow-up of 52 elementary students which indicated that in fourth grade, as in second grade, language ability, as measured by the Wechsler Kntelligence Scale for Children-Revised Vocabulary subtest, was more strongly related to Achievement Test scores among high-actives than among nonhigh-actives. (Author/NRB)

Reports on two treatment studies of special education students markedly helpless with regard to arithmetic: one comparing attribution retraining treatment to control treatment matched to it in schedule of successes and failures; the other comparing effects of three success-failure schedules on attributions and persistence. (Author/NRB)

Studied 86 sixth graders to determine relationships among perceived contingency of teacher-administered reinforcements, locus of control, teacher ratings of children's helplessness-competence, and academic achievement. Children's internality of locus of control and their perceptions that teachers contingently administer rewards were predictive of…

Administered Survey of Reading Attitudes and Bundy Reading Preference Survey to 130 fourth- and fifth-grade students. Significant moderate correlation between total score of Bundy Reading Preference Survey and the Reading as Enjoyment Dimension of the Survey of Reading Attitudes contributes to construct validity of both measures. (Author)

Compared traditional percentage and correlational methods of estimating reliability of duration recording to reliability obtained with event-by-event examination of observers' records in which the actual percentage of time that the observers were in agreement was calculated. Traditional percentage reliability scores were found to be significantly…

Explored the relationship between the new Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (K-ABC) and the Revised Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R) Forms L and M for a sample of 30 predominantly Black Head Start children. The highest correlations occurred between the K-ABC Achievement Scale and the PPVT-R. (Author/NRB)

Evaluated interscorer reliability of the Spatial Memory subtest, which appears on the Simultaneous Processing scale of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children. Responses from 19 gifted children were scored by two independent examiners. Results showed this subtest may be prone to scoring errors because no permanent record of responses exists.…

Gifted elementary students (N=54) completed the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children. Factor structures for mental processing and achievement subtests were compared to factor structures for children from the standardization sample, revealing similar structures. The most parsimonious structure, however, accounted for under 40 percent of shared…