Teaching styles in New Zealand and Queensland, Australia, are considered within the framework of basic value orientations--industrial, social, academic, and humanistic. (Editor/RK)

Theory pertaining to human development suggests that, as students advance through the secondary-school grades, the learning structures should become less restrictive. This research examines the extent to which "structure" within the secondary school environments changes in accordance with growth in students from year 8 to year 12. (Editor/RK)

The results of this study provide a little support for those who ascribe a motivational effect to tests, but it is possible that this effect is limited to tasks that are novel, and for which information on one's relative standing within the classroom is lacking. (Author)

This paper is concerned with measuring the logical consistency of a theory of academic motivation which involves three classes of phenomena: personality dispositions, values, and situational variables. (Editor)