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Examines the characteristics of adult children with alcoholic parents in the U.S. Comparison between the stress level of children of non-alcoholic parents and alcoholic parents; Prevalence rate of alcoholism; Percentage of college students experiencing parental alcohol abuse.

Presents a study which examined the emotional resiliency, stress levels, locus of control and needed for achievement in college students with and without learning disabilities. Methods used in the study; Affective factors of college students; Results; Discussion.

Examines the temporal stability of the Learning Efficiency Test-II with undergraduates over a mean test-retest time interval of 19 days. Temporal stability estimate for Visual Modality, Auditory Modality and Global Memory factor scores; Repeated-measures analysis of variance for the said factor scores.

Looks at a study which investigated the Learning Efficiency Test-II (LET-II) temporal stability for undergraduate volunteers, over an average of a six week period. Scores of the participants; Aim of the LET-II; Methodology used to conduct the study; Results of the study.

The extent of curriculum biasing was examined for seven criterion-referenced and standardized reading achievement tests in relation to five widely used commercial reading programs at the third grade level. Because of the exaggerated bias found to exist, especially with the standardized achievement tests, caution must be exercised when interpreting test results and using them for educational placement decisions. These types of decisions can best be made when the teacher is aware of the direction and degree of bias for obtained test scores. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Learning Efficiency Test helps bridge the gap between identification of memory deficits and development of effective instructional strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Examines effects of different input-modality/output-modality pairings on the short-term memory (STM) of 6th graders identifies as mathematics-proficient or mathematics-disabled. Several reasons for the difficulty to evaluate the instructional utility of the modality model; Determining the aural presentation for serial lists of digits and letters produced.