Attempts to establish the primacy of objectives in curriculum planning in multiracial education, to explore the factors governing their selection and to suggest, in a general way and in the form of a Bloomian classification what they might be, and the kind of criteria for choosing learning experiences that could be derived from them. (Author/RK)

Shows how the spatial elements in reading matter contribute to its meaning. The importance of breaking up any complicated passage into fragments which are easy to understand is emphasized. (Author/RK)

Discusses the problems inherent in reading mathematics. Suggests specific reading abilities for comprehending mathematical exposition. (Author/RK)

Attempts to look at some of the factors which influence the scope of secondary school swimming programs. (Author/RK)

The rationale and development of an interview method for the study of personal values is described. (Author)

The intent here was to collect data relevant to evaluating the post-primary educational system as a whole. This includes assessing what the goals of post-primary education should be, obtaining teachers' and pupils' subjective assessments of whether these goals were being attained, and asking why the goals were not being better attained. (Author/RK)

Discusses possible difficulties in implementing behavior modification techniques and suggests solutions. Three areas are considered: the training of teachers involved, the question of teacher attitudes and motivation in relation to a behavior modification approach, and the impact of school organizational and administrative structure. (Author/RK)

Suggests that peer groups are a very important component of normal and successful classrooms. They matter to the educational system because they matter to children. The attitudes that children hold about their schools and about work are affected by their peer group relationships, which in turn affect the whole organization of the class. (Author/RK)

The combination of expanding education with contracting skill at work produces employees who are more educated than their jobs require, and who are less efficient because more dissatisfied. In this situation, the demand for a more educated workforce is in fact a demand for more discipline in the subordinate ranks of industry's political hierarchy…

Suggests that there exists a "finite" number of elementary concepts and distinguishable modes of thinking, that all human beings tend to acquire the same set of elements of thinking and the same strategies with which to understand and control their physical environment, and that the method of analysis used here is a standard scientific method.…

Examines what happens when an immigrant group fully accepts the formal premises about the values, and patterns of behavior, of a host culture, in this case, West Indian migrants in Britain. Concentrates on three aspects: the domestic adjustments on migration, the role of the West Indian church and the adaptation of West Indian adolescents.…

T. Derrick's indictment of inferential statistics (EJ 156 425) is answered by Harvey Goldstein and here by P. F. W. Preece and M. B. Youngman with a response by Gabriel Chanan. (RK)

Six studies of schools are reviewed and their findings discussed in relation to a proposed research model of schools as social institutions. It is argued that the results confirm differences in achievement, atmosphere and ethos. Discusses the effects on pupils and some reasons for these different outcomes. (Author/RK)

Concepts and methods suggested by cognitive psychology and recent experimental studies of the perception of duration have been employed in this research of judgments of historical duration by children aged between 8 and 15 years. Results indicate a developmental sequence in forms of historical temporal awareness. (Author/RK)

Short-term and long-term studies of teacher effectiveness were categorized according to characteristics facets such as type of teacher, students, occasions, and subject matter to identify conditions over which these measures generalize (i.e., conditions in which teacher effects on pupil outcomes are stable). This review suggests that…