This investigation utilized role theory as a model for research into social studies curriculum through the identification of dimensions of teacher expectation and student behaviors. (Authors)

Study concerned with identifying and measuring self-made academic predictions of entering junior college freshmen and with relating these predictions to past and future academic performance, as well as to measures of scholastic aptitude. (Authors)

Authors show how the use of modern multidimensional scaling techniques, which have long been employed in the behavioral sciences for the measurement of subjective values, can be profitably applied to the study of the latent structure of students' perceptions of literature. (Authors/CB)

It may be useful in evaluation research to employ the class as the unit of analysis, assessing its syntality by a vector of distribution cumulants or indices for each of several input tests administered. (Author)

Article describes a systems analysis model for large educational enterprises, which prominently employs instructional objectives. (Author)

Discusses tendencies in systems management procedures that are indicative of the curriculum field's social commitments, systems language as social rhetoric, and the constitutive aspect of systems procedures as they are applied today in education. (Author/GB)

Gives estimates of the proportion of AERA members who are researchers and who publish research at some point in their career. (Editor)

It was hypothesized that verbal ability becomes increasingly differentiated from other abilities such as numerical, spatial, and perceptual, and increasingly specific and similar in structure to the ability of groups with more learning experience. (Author)

Humanistic and custodial elementary school teachers differ in the frequency of use of verbal behaviors in the areas of accepting and developing student ideas, lecturing, and student-initiated verbal behaviors. (Editor)

Using praise and student-initiated ideas, along with avoiding criticism and showing positive regard for the student as a person, characterized teachers who tended to promote the child's own goals. (Editor)

Since an annual review now appears in the Reading Research Quarterly which will be combined with the Eric effort and other more specialized reviews, this is the last of the forty-one annual summaries and reviews to appear in The Journal of Educational Research. (Authors/CB)

This investigation of 133 first grade Ss (25 percent Hispano--75 percent Anglo and 50 percent male), found no significant correlations between objective scores of young children's self-concept and their first or second grade reading achievement. (Author)

Summary data are reported for the forty-one annual reviews of studies related to reading reported in The Journal of Educational Research. Total studies reported each year are reported along with lists of journals cited most frequently in the areas of sociology, psychology, physiology, and the teaching of reading. (Authors)

Study of language used in multiple choice test showed that verbal complexity of questions had little or no effect on their actual difficulty; if a student knows the content, he can also read well enough to understand the test item. (SP)

Authors discovered significant correlations between couse ratings and variables representing commitment and course-end attitudes toward the course; conclusions suggested steps an instructor might take to improve his ratings.'' (Authors)