The study sought to identify the language, perceptual, demographic, and intellectual factors capable of discriminating between groups of good, average, and poor first-grade students as determined by a standardized reading test. (Editor)

The purpose of this study was to determine if intervention initiated by school personnel could successfully reduce the tardiness rate in a selected junior high school. (Editor)

In this paper we hope to show that the continuing question of whether or not attitudes have an effect on behavior can be answered. (Editor)

An adjustment process was designed and implemented for unmanageable inmates in a maximum security prison. The process provides a behavioral program for "problem" inmates with special emphasis on behavior management training for correctional officers. (Editor)

The researchers concluded from the findings of this study that attrition had a significant impact on the total self-concept and self-satisfaction of the withdrawing student, but that no effect was evident for trait anxiety or identity self-concept. (HMD)

This study was undertaken in response to the growing demand for more substantive world affairs curricula. The results of the study show that students and teachers have very clear priorities with regard to aspects of world affairs and that these priorities can be ranked by teacher preference and student preference. (HMD)

Judgment analysis was used to determine the policy by which judges rated 60 profiles of college teachers. While six of the judges seemed to be opposed to evaluation, the other judges generally rated classroom teaching and professional activities as the most important variables in effective teaching. (HMD)

A review of the implementation efforts of the Accountability Act of 1971 is presented with guidelines for judging the effectiveness or potential of any accountability plan. (HMD)

The author describes his interpretation of business, distributive, and career education; provides a brief interpretation of the state-of-the-art; and offers some suggestions for action including specific examples. (HMD)

Three problems in determining educational productivity are identifying the desired outcomes, identifying relative values of various inputs, and developing adequate measurements of both outputs and inputs. (HMD)

This keynote address before the 46th Annual Mid-Year Education Conference sponsored by the University of Northern Colorado emphasizes that change is the one constant of education in America and notes the career education concept as a promising change. (HMD)

This study, which had a posttest only design, found that there was no significant difference in the achievement levels of the subjects.

The results of this study indicate that a significant variation exists between WISC and WAIS scores for educationally retarded individuals. (HMD)

This paper examines the assumption often made in the sociology literature that stereotypy and prejudice are equivalent phenomena through study of the variation of both dimensions of ethnic attitudes by education. (Editor)