Evaluates relationship between heavy television viewing and other variables, especially educational attainment, by testing 275 Edmonton (Alberta) fifth to sixth graders. Finds youngsters whose parents have higher socioeducational status (SES), characterized by heavy use of symbolic skills, watch less TV than SES counterparts; heavy TV watching is…

Reviews literature and research on child abuse, emphasizing correlation between abuse and exceptionality of the child. States child abuse is not linked with poverty or socioeconomic level; the role of conditions in prompting abuse is hard to assess; a child's special needs may create the stressful environment prompting abuse. (LC)

By omitting the private and positive dimensions of morality and focusing on a single dimension of moral experience, interpersonal value conflict, Lawrence Kohlberg's Moral Development Program presents a one-sided interpretation of ethics--one which in educational practice is likely to produce morally imbalanced students. (Author/LC)

Data from test instruments developed to measure student progress in a decision-making approach to values education suggest that either current methods of decision-making instruction are ineffective or that the adolescent years are a stagnant period for growth in this domain. (Author/CM)

Study of 488 students in teacher preparation programs at 8 Canadian universities indicated: (1) unrealistic beliefs about youth are fairly widespread among prospective Canadian teachers; (2) some such beliefs are related to mass media stereotypes of youth; (3) respondents place confidence in mass media as sources of reliable information.…

On a Likert scale, 269 prospective elementary school teachers instructed in a seminar workshop approach showed a greater improvement in attitude towards mathematics than students in a lecture setting. On the Dutton attitude scale, there were no differences between instructional techniques nor between pre- and posttest means. (Author/CM)

Students' socioeconomic status and teacher characteristics (general qualifications, area of training and experience) were not significantly related to student performance in the general school population. However, socioeconomic status, teacher qualifications, and area of training were substantially related to student achievement in low-achieving…

Elementary school mathematics teachers (145), from 9 school units in northeastern Saskatchewan, preferred inservice mathematics activities consisting of demonstration of model units on new approaches and workshops and seminars by both local and visiting personnel. Least preferred activities were university courses, participation on planning…

A study designed to replicate work by Kirby and Das (1977) studying differences between learning disabled (102) and normal children (99) essentially supported the earlier research in terms of factor structure and relationship of simultaneous and successive processing to reading and IQ. In both groups, structures and relationships were similar.…

Using a nested two-way analysis of variances, in four Michigan elementary schools, no significant differences were found between the achievement of students taught with reading management techniques and those who were not. (Author/CM)

The findings indicated that there were no significant differences between good and poor readers in the nature of information recalled or in their use of perceptual connectives. The type of passage, however, did have a significant effect on the number of perceptual connectives given in the recalls. (Author/NQA)

Handwriting performance was measured over baseline, direct contingent reward, and implicit reward conditions for elementary-grade children from normal classes. Extinctive reactions present under implicit reward conditions were significantly stronger for groups of eight than for paired subjects. Age-level factors were not significantly related to…

The article examines the trends in private school growth and enrollments, and the concerns of private school supporters as well as those of public school boards. A review of selected literature is given and the legal status and the financing of private schools are briefly described. (Author/NQA)

The concept of career contingency is used to illustrate that the physical education teacher in a modern high school undergoes similar role conflicts and negotiates his/her social reality in ways similar to those of workers who occupy roles in other professions. (Author/NQA)

One hundred and two third graders were tested on match-to-sample, cognitive style tasks in the visual and auditory modalities as well as a visual-auditory cross-modal task. The results lend support to the relationship between cognitive style and reading performance. (Author/NQA)