Secondary school students perceptions of their teachers were analyzed by pupil characteristics and teacher characteristics. Academic achievement, pupil sex and age, teacher experience, and subjects taught were among the factors affecting students evaluation of teachers. (JB)

Does cognitive style differentially influence performance under either an expository or discovery method of instruction? The authors found that neither cognitive style or methods of instruction had an overall effect on the acquisition of knowledge. (Editor)

A model with only ten or twenty decision variables can be more instructive than large scale cost simulation models. Research efforts should concentrate on understanding the order-of-magnitude effects of proposed policy changes on various indicators of system performance. (Author/VW)

Literature on public school curriculum development since 1950 is reviewed to determine who is determining curriculum policy-making. There is an increasingly political approach to curriculum questions on the part of the general public. (Author/VW)

While evaluating a project designed to improve certain skills and motivation of disadvantaged tenth graders, the authors developed a unique test for measuring college interest with the Kuder Occupational Interest Survey For DD. (Authors)

Attitudes toward college are related to the existence of two dimensions, academic orientation and traditionalism. Academic orientation relates to satisfaction with faculty and traditionalism relates to satisfaction with the administration and major field. (Editor)

Describes the development of an instrument to measure student attitudes towards a tracking system. (CK)

Evaluates the effects of preschool training and social work services on reading readiness, social maturity, and family dysfunction among children whose parents receive public assistance. (Author)

Johnson-Neyman, Potthoff, and Erlander and Gustavsson techniques for obtaining confidence regions for the difference between regression surfaces are compared. (DG)