Article investigated the relationship between the ability to be a proficient teacher and a prescribed curriculum. (Author/RK)

Considered the special education needs of handicapped children and the role of the teacher advocate in satisfying those needs. (RK)

Article discussed the state of Hawaii's efforts to provide equal educational opportunities for exceptional children and a suit brought on behalf of all exceptional persons. (Author/RK)

Article offers a guideline for the planning of teacher training in physical education. (GB)

Author believes schools must make the physical aspects of education a significant, meaningful experience so each individual can become more keenly aware of, and intelligently plan for, his or her biological need for vigorous physical activity. (Author/GB)

Coaches must realize that athletes practicing and performing on synthetic turf may undergo a higher heat stress on hot days than if they were operating on natural grass. (GB)

The most influencial factors on physical performance appear to be environmental and not genetic as evidenced by the results of the present ethnic sampling. (Author)

Teachers are confronted with the practical problem of deciding how large correlations should be between individual differences in motor skills in order to be taken seriously and influence and/or be the stimulus for modifying or drastically changing their current teaching practice. (Author)

The success of an institution in recruiting students is directly related to how well it projects its own uniqueness. (GB)

The author explains his research on learning differences between children of Hawaii's different ethnic groups, particularly the Oriental-Americans. His studies focus on two separate variables: fast-slow instruction and locus of control. (SJL)

This article discusses cognitive development research as it relates to social competence. Two research approaches are summarized: (1) attempts to isolate sequential stages in the development of social cognition, and (2) conceptualization of broad organizing principles hypothesized to mediate all social cognition. (Author/SJL)

As a statistical model for evaluating research results from intact groups such as classrooms, analysis of covariance has serious limitations in its most commonly-touted form. But it does have potential for investigating phenomena which can, when understood, provide more prescriptive formulations for interventions in the learning process.…

With reference to his own experiences as an Educational Psychology professor at the University of Hawaii College of Education, Ian Reid discusses student and faculty feelings about traditional letter grades and about credit/no credit grading, and the impact of these two systems on the instructional process. (SJL)

The author gives insight into the concept of community by tracing its historical development and expression in the United States and describes community education as a current attempt to make the idea of community meaningful in contemporary urban, post-industrial America. Part of a theme issue on community education. (Editor)

The author suggests that community education can serve as society's adaptive response to rapid social change and increased cultural pluralism by becoming a means for community reintegration and continuity where elders and young alike can serve both as teachers and learners. Part of a theme issue on community education. (Editor)