A United States teacher visited an art class in a Chinese commune and observed fifth grade students working on line drawings. (AM)

This article examines the use of audiovisual materials in intermediate grades for more effective teaching and learning. (JR)

Sixteen students, aged eleven to fifteen, from Colorado Academy, near Denver, spent 18 days in China in March, 1977, devoting much of their time to a study of education there. The purpose of the expedition was to compare and contrast educational experiences and circumstances during the intermediate years of education. (Editor/RK)

This study compared intact beginning fifth grade classes in one of the districts in Shanghai, People's Republic of China to American Norms on the KeyMath-Revised: A Diagnostic Inventory of Essential Mathematics (KeyMath-R) and the Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT-3). The review of literature contrasted the two cultures with regard to students,…

Suggests ways researchers can use international comparisons to improve student learning, using math performance of U.S. and Chinese sixth-graders on four types of tasks. Chinese students did better on computation; U.S. students excelled at process (open performance) assessment tasks. U.S. kids need to develop symbolic and algebraic thinking. (MLH)

The findings of surveys concerning the attitudes and behavior of students in China are presented. Studies investigated the ideology of middle school students; youth's ideals, motivations, and interests; middle school students' dislike for politics classes; the education of only children; academic decline of junior high students; and guidance…

Cross-national studies in mathematics have consistently reported that U.S. students do not perform as well as Asian students on tasks requiring the application of mathematical knowledge and skills routinely learned in school. Recent studies have shown, however, that for tasks assessing relatively novel and complex problem solving, performance…