If author were to be asked to specify the single most significant outcome of educational research in the last decade, he would select just this one: the power of teacher attitude and teacher expectation. (Author/CB)

Article attempts to set out a way of measuring determination, the element capable of making students' occupational choice' a reality not just an ideal, by exploration of the part played by the value system in relation to occupational choice. (Author)

Results suggest that the headteachers, through continuous communication with the pupils and staff, not only serve to enhance or diminish the child's evaluation of himself but also impart to the pupils in their charge a self-image which reflects the headteachers' highly subjective evaluation of the pupils. (Author/CB)

Investigation reported in this paper is primarily concerned with how project work affects the attitudes that pupils hold towards science and in what ways the project affects the attitudes that pupils already hold. (Author/CB)

Programmes for very gifted children at the Technion in Haifa were started in 1969. These were child-centred and an attempt to counteract the negative-gifted-child-syndrome.' (Author/CB)

Presents an edited selection of points from an address concerning the present range of the NFER'S activities and other suggestions and comments from the forum's delegates. (Author/RK)