Pre- and post-student teaching scores of student teachers in secondary education were compared in terms of a continuum of humanistic to custodial ideology of pupil control. It was found that student teachers became significantly more custodial after student teaching and that males were more custodial than females both before and after student…

Two groups of undergraduate students with diverse backgrounds ranked the acceptability of 15 handicapping conditions of which some were medical disorders and others were sociopsychological or functional impairments. Students adhered to the medical model, basing their judgments of acceptability on the amenability of a given handicap to medical…

The study sought to determine if students (40 seventh-graders) who were given specific instruction in art vocabulary would receive significantly greater art project evaluations as compared to students receiving no such instruction. Results revealed significantly greater scores among students who had received instruction in art vocabulary. (JC)

Responses derived from 76 adult students (mean of 25.6 years) indicated the following 5 services were most useful: advisement; financial aid; bookstore; counseling center; orientation/pre-registration. The five first choice services ranked by the group in order were: advisement; financial aid; admissions; career development center; and counseling…

Differences were examined among 285 black secondary students who were: not changing schools; changing to schools with a black majority; changing to a racially balanced school. Results indicated a racially balanced school had no effect on social insight. Introverts were higher on the withdrawal scale and lower on the cooperation scale. (JC)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children Revised (WISC-R) was administered to 34 elementary students scoring "gifted" on the Otis, Iowa, and SRBCSS (Scale for Rating Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students). Results indicated a combination of the Otis, Iowa, and SRBCSS was moderately effective in predicting the Full Scale WISC-R IQ.…

Results indicated that an educational system's instructional function can be improved through application of behavioral science technologies using reflexive, self-analytic methods characteristic of organizational development intervention, which emphasizes the human dimension of organizations. (Author/EDE)

The importance of counseling services for parents of children with a physical or educational disability is widely acknowledged. The article explores the process whereby parents in need of counseling are identified, concluding that teachers' views of a child's behavior, rather than feedback from parents, result in referrals. (KR)

Students tend to evaluate those activities in which they participated on the college campus as being important to their life satisfaction, i.e., extracurricular activities for leaders, academics for nonleaders. (KR)

Not only are goal expectations assessed in this study, but also the extent to which goals are realized. Profiles are developed of the noncredit course enrollees on the different campuses of the university. (KR)

Assumptions underlying Cooper's exact probability test for Likert-type scales are examined and found not always to hold true. A modification of his test is derived, differences in results obtained with the two tests are presented, and the significance of the results discussed. (KR)

School contextual effects are found to be minimal, while parental expectations, family socioeconomic status, and school peer group account for more variance in aspirations. (KR)

The number of TV shows viewed appears to have only a marginal negative relationship with educational achievement, while encouraging behavioral impulsivity. More study in this area is urged. (KR)

It was found that students who have completed a mathematics content and methods course have a greater appreciation of the creative side of the subject and the importance of employing discovery learning. (KR)

The administrative component was found to receive a smaller proportion of salaries in large districts, while clerical and maintenance service proportions increased, producing a net effect of larger overhead costs in this study of high school districts in the midwestern U.S. (KR)