Interviews and surveys of 13 teachers and staff and 213 students from four successful Canadian "outreach schools" found that the characteristics of alternative education that contribute to its success are volunteerism, small size, egalitarianism, a caring attitude, participatory decision making, organizational flexibility, individualized learning,…

A survey of 21 of the 22 public and Catholic schools in Edmonton (Alberta) examined materials used in 10th-grade English classes. Teachers cited 1,698 titles, but a small number of titles predominated the lists, suggesting a clearcut "school canon." Includes discussion and tables of the most frequently cited novels, plays, films, short stories,…

Intends to identify some of the problems associated with evaluation of a province-wide program, to describe how these problems were dealt with in the particular case under review, and to suggest how evaluators and their clients might approach problems of a similar nature. (Author/RK)

Relations among test anxiety, performance on a complex task, and task behavior were investigated within a simulated teaching situation. It was predicted that test anxiety would relate negatively to performance accuracy and level of active task involvement. (Editor)

Examines teachers' perceptions of pupil ability and determines whether their perceptions are distorted in any systematic way by the order or sequence of information they receive about the pupil. (Author/RK)

Attempts to evaluate several sources of information found in students' cumulative folders on teachers' expectancy sets. Types of information included for evaluation consisted of the child's degree of attractiveness, ability, sex, and family background. (Author/RK)

Analyzed factorially various theoretically derived measures of conceptual systems functioning and several proposed measures and correlations. (Author/RK)

Investigates the relationship between Rotter's (1966) Internality-Externality Scale and Kohlberg's (1971) Morality Scale. Specifically addresses the question of whether Rotter's internal individual will be functioning at a higher level of Kohlber's stages of morality than the external individual. (Author/RK)

Focuses on selecting learning experiencing which allow students direct involvement in the discussion of issues most important to them. Reports research findings from a 1971 study of marital role expectations of high school students in a large Alberta city and outlines teaching strategies which utilize this data. (Author/RK)

Compares and measures differences in self-concept and attitude toward school between ninth-grade girls who had received group or individual counseling over a 15-week period and girls who had not been counseled. (Author/RK)

Examines whether or not teachers employed in the same settings could agree with each other concerning expressed optimal educational strategies for preschoolers, looks at their behavior in those settings, and studies the relationship of teachers' attitudes and behaviors among a number of settings purporting to derive from the same conceptual…

This paper is concerned with one aspect of intellectual functioning, logico-mathematical concepts, and with development of representational space in opportunity class children (those characterized mainly by cultural deprivation, intellectual retardation at the Educable Mentally Retarded-borderline levels, and specific learning disabilities) who…

This study was designed to determine opinions of students, teachers, parents and community leaders about: (1) the extent to which 18 commonly accepted educational goals are now being achieved in schools, and (2) the extent to which the same 18 goals should be achieved. (Editor)

A list of fifteen objectives for teaching junior high school mathematics was obtained from the related literature. These objectives were ranked according to perceived importance by selected groups of teachers, parents, students and professional educators. (Editor)

By locating three possible fallacies associated with the conventional "needs approach" of program planning for adult learners, the present paper proposes a theoretical model that accounts for a possible evolution of real educational needs of learners and identifies varying impacts of the process upon learners' perceived need changes. (Author)