The influence of language and familiarity with clay upon performance of traditional tasks involving conservation of quantity and weight was examined. Children from a village in which all the women are potters did not perform differently from their peers in a neighboring village on any task. (MS)

Twenty-seven easy steps that paid off for a high school in Oak Park, Illinois. (Author)

Forty-six nonretarded children in kindergarten through grade 2 were compared with 47 retarded children in primary through prevocational levels to determine the best predictors of behavior, explanation, and scores for conservation of two dimensional space, substance, continuous quantity, and weight. (MC)

Study results indicate that sex of experimenter appears to be an important factor in conservation assessment at the lower elementary level. (DP)

The management of the Bismarck, North Dakota, Holiday Inn discovered that saving energy is saving money after installing an automated computer-controlled maintenance system. (Author)

Conservation in congenitally blind, blindfolded and sighted elementary school students indicated the order of acquisition of various types of conservation was constant. (ST)

Conservation is positively correlated with reading readiness and intelligence. Suggests that conservation is worthy of attention by primary teachers as a predictor of the child's readiness for learning to read. (ST)

Children (N=45), who had failed to attain criterion on three tests of linear order, were trained under one of three conditions: reciprocity, reversibility, and discrimination. Under all three conditions children demonstrated learning during training and significant specific transfer effects; reversibility training led to generalized transfer to…

Schools could conserve energy by following recommendations by Educational Facilities Laboratories: (1) review operations and maintenance personnel qualifications to handle mechanical-electrical equipment, (2) analyze energy consumption to identify waste sources in schools, (3) incorporate energy conservation into all architectural programs for…

Shows how ducted air systems can be designed to provide a direct means of controlling and redistributing the heat generated by lighting fixtures. Suggests ways to achieve significant reductions in energy use and operating expense. (Author)

Construct validity in intelligence test construction can be attained by the use of Piaget-type tasks, which involve the basic categories of intellectual functioning''; examples are given. (Author/SP)