The longer a principal remains at a school the greater the level of significance of the relationship between high behavioral characteristics and school climate becomes. (Editor)

Study of degree of congruence of expectations between teacher and student'' in process oriented vs. content oriented social studies programs; congruity was greater in the latter type of program, but participant satisfaction greater in the former, thus leading to a rethinking of the congruence-satisfaction relationship. (Author/SP)

The Teacher Image Questionnaire was analyzed; educators may benefit from the results as they try to recognize the limitations, strengths, and meaning of student reactions to teachers. (Editor/SP)

Effective departmental chairmen may exhibit characteristics such as ability to recruit promising faculty, a capacity for decisive thinking and action, and support of good teaching; less desirable characteristics were being first among equals, fund raising, and being highly identified with one's own discipline. (Editor)

A scholarship program for promising disadvantaged students in private secondary schools was evaluated through interviews, faculty reports, and testing in a two year follow-up of 82 boys. (Author)

Purpose of this paper is to report the feasibility of a national educational experiment and to present the summative findings regarding Project Physics, a physics course for high school students. (Authors)

Principal finding of this study was the association between tutors' familiarity with the test materials and greater test score gains by their pupils. (Authors)

Paper proposes a set of techniques for measuring the importance" of each independent variable in a multivariate causal law (i.e., a law showing the combined effect of several independent variables on a single dependent variable). (Authors)

The KDP scale was found to be ineffective as a predictor of Ss' contacts with law enforcement agencies but of some use in predicting school social adjustment and reading achievement. (Editor)

Teachers estimated students' progress; the result, using EMR students, was no apparent statistical relationship between expectations and academic achievement. (Editor/SP)

Author found that the verbal behavior of an experimental group was significantly more indirect than that of the control group, supporting the hypothesis that audio tapes are effective for observational learning of a specific teaching behavior. (Editor)

Grouping heterogeneously, homogeneously, and flexibly made no significant difference in academic achievement in research done on 260 children over a 2-year period. (Editor)

In programed instruction, required-response chunks not physical length of frames determines the difficulty level of instruction. A further analysis revealed that number of words per chunk did not affect performance. (Editor)

Authors propose that the most significant differences among people in learning situations are intrinsic, and discuss developing individualized instruction programs for typical classroom subject matter through the use of prototypic learner models. (Editor)

Purpose of this experiment was to explore to what extent people can acquire concepts from exposure to definitions and to determine whether a procedure that induces semantic encoding will have the same effect on concept learning as such procedures have on associative learning. (Authors/MB)