Recent research on classroom achievement dynamics suggests a conflict of teacher/student values regarding effort expenditure. Student effort is clearly rewarded and the indifferences punished by teachers. From the student perspective, expending effort when risking failure is a potential threat because high effort/failure invites ascriptions to low…

This monograph is the second in a series of semiannual reports that focus on research related to reading in secondary schools. The first section contains two literature reviews dealing with study habits and study skills related to reading. The second section offers two reviews related to prereading anticipation activities, including the advance…

Certain study habits and attitudes of 102 disadvantaged college students were investigated. The students were assigned to one of four groups, and each group, except the control group which received no instruction, was taught reading by either the teacher-guidance, the individualized, or the audiovisual instructional approach. The course content…

Four interim progress reports describe various aspects of the Aural Study Systems for the Visually Handicapped research project, designed to explore processes involved in aural learning by the blind and to develop an entire system of study using recorded texts. Prior to development of hardware and specifications for software for such a system, a…

This study is concerned with three major problem areas which confront college students, especially new freshmen. These problem areas are social adjustment, study problems, and values or standards of conduct. Samples consisted of 296 freshmen living in double rooms, and 60 students selected at a later date. While the original concern was about…

An anonymous questionnaire was circulated among Harcum Junior College female students and students at six community colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY) in order to obtain answers to the following questions: (1) What do Harcum students read? (2) How well do they read? (3) What are their reading preferences? (4) What are their…

Nine papers concerning various aspects of diagnostic and resource teaching deal with the impact of crisis-resource teaching on the Falls Church, Virginia public schools, the role and requirements of the diagnostic teacher, the effectiveness of resource rooms for children with specific learning disabilities, basic problems in diagnosis, an overview…

Developed through the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project, this teacher's manual should be useful in the training of paraprofessionals for the human services areas. Included in the manual is a discussion of several problem situations which teachers in the human services areas may encounter, including adult learning and the…

This study is the first of a larger research program aimed at identifying and parameters affecting the selection of, completion of, and achievement in correspondence study. A 15-item questionnaire and a cover letter which explained the project were mailed to 486 students who were enrolled in at least one correspondence course. Only 134 of the…

Presented is the basis for an integrated approach to teaching reading skills and mathematics concepts at the elementary school level. A general explanation of concept formation, of oral and written language, and of mathematics symbols, with specific suggestions as to their application in mathematics, is included in the first section of the…

A sample of 132 college students was randomly assigned to lecture, lecture-discussion, independent-study, or control conditions in an investigation of the relationship of reading efficiency, personality factors, and study habits to instructional conditions. Analysis of results revealed that there were no significant differences in success rates of…

The article describes a research project which tried to determine if dogmatic students take less than average time to study non-complex tests, and if they do, whether this is because of a "know-it-all" attitude or to avoid decision-making anxiety. (CD)

A study based on medical student daily time diaries was conducted to examine impact of sophomore courses on students and allocation of time in response to an academic overload. The major conclusion was that 60 hours a week is the maximum amount of time students can reasonably devote to class or study. nJT)

High school students can and should be proficient in using such basic skills as reading, writing, computational skills, thinking, and listening. Here are five guides for accomplishing this goal. (Author/RK)