Thirty eleventh-grade students were the subjects of a study to determine whether a person reporting a high degree of mental imagery in reading would also score well on comprehension tests and report a positive attitude toward reading. Subjects were first given the Estes Reading Attitude Scale, the results of which indicated no significant…

Concern about academic cheating in the schools has been persistently expressed in the scholarly and mass media literature for several decades. Much of this concern derives from studies that show cheating as a widespread problem in American schools, behavior that clearly runs counter to the ethic of intellectual honesty. In this study cognitions…

Noting that perceived violence in society has been found to be positively and significantly related to television viewing and especially related to the viewing of highly violent television, a study examined the relationship between MTV (Music Television) viewing and perceived violence in society. Subjects, 116 seventh grade students and 107…

Two perspectives provide the theoretical framework for this study. The first provides confirmatory maximum likelihood estimates of factor loadings and factor intercorrelations; the second, and more important, provides statistical tests of hypotheses that factor structures and patterns of values are invariant for female and male adolescents. The…

This paper reports a case study about argumentation and scientific practice in the 11th grade. The objectives of the study are to identify argument patterns and dimensions of the scientific practice in students' conversations and actions while engaged in an environmental management project in a wetland. The focus are the warrants that students…

The purpose of this study was to examine whether proofreading a text aloud was more effective than silent proofreading in helping Black English Vernacular (BEV) speaking students to locate and correct dialect features in writing. The study was divided into two parts. In the first part, 29 11th grade BEV-speakers edited three teacher-produced…

A study examined the effectiveness of a spatial learning strategy, the Graphic Post Organizer, implemented for an extended period of time. Subjects, approximately 150 eleventh-grade students enrolled in a "regular level" American History course at a combined upper-middle, middle, and working class suburb of Chicago, Illinois, were…

A committee comprised of five teachers from the Ann Arbor school system along with consultants from the University of Michigan's English Composition Board and the Director of Language Arts planned, administered, and evaluated an assessment of the writing of all 11th-grade students in the district. It was designed to reflect writing as process and…

The study-in-progress examines the treatment of the U.S. Constitution in U.S. history textbooks at the fifth, eighth, and eleventh grade levels. The study focuses on how textbook authors treat: (1) the background and historical setting from which the U.S. Constitution emerged; (2) the writers of the Constitution and the process they went through…

A structural model suggesting complex causal interrelationships among eight variables which contribute to variance in student learning is described. The variables include mother's and father's educational level; Relaxed Test Comfort Score; Specific Math Comfort Score; Attitudinal Continuing Motivation Score; Behavioral Continuing Motivation Score;…

The degree to which good and poor high school readers comprehend prose was studied in relation to their ability to (1) use passage organization to facilitate comprehension; (2) use task instructions to facilitate comprehension; and (3) answer verbatim and paraphrase items used to measure comprehension. Eleventh grade students were given the…

Background: The Reef education evaluation: environmental knowledge and reef experience report concerns PhD research about marine education, and the investigation of learning with high school students and the effect of coral reef monitoring marine experiential education interventions. The effectiveness of classroom learning and reef trips were…

This paper discusses how students' participation in conversation and classroom activities potentially evidences and constitutes their cognition. Participation is viewed in terms of reflective discourse, a construct from the literature, and is described in the context of two Year 11 students together designing a simple aplet for their graphics…

This paper describes a disruptive model of interpretation which explores positions in discursive practices embedded in visual culture as a means of understanding self and difference. The model understands interpretation as a Foucauldian technique of the self, and its use may give art teachers and students strategies for understanding the social…

Equating multiple test forms is frequently desired. When multiple forms are linked in a chain of equating, error tends to build up in the process. This paper compares three procedures for equating multiple forms in a common-form design where each school administered, in a spiraled fashion, only a subset of multiple forms. Data used were from a…