After giving a brief description of Kohlberg's theoretical position and his recommendations regarding the promotion of higher level judgments in the schools, the article details the difficulties with the implementation of Kohlberg's moral decision curriculum and notes that the unfeasibility is borne out by empirical findings. (SB)

A study investigating the discrimination abilities of two crib-bound, cerebral palsied, profoundly retarded females demonstrates the importance of individual differences among such children and suggests that discriminative responding may be demonstrated by at least some profoundly retarded children, particularly if distributed practice is employed…

Describes a study to identify differences in alienation feelings and attitudes toward school between dropouts and persisters. Indicates that dropouts have greater feelings of alienation, meaninglessness, and powerlessness, and more negative attitudes toward school and former teachers than do persisters. Briefly describes Focus, a dropout…

Describes a study of the differences in the perceived roles, functions, and duties of clinical and counseling psychology interns in internship and university training program settings and of the effectiveness of the interns in their roles, functions, and duties as perceived by supervisors. Suggests training improvements. (SB)

The article formally defines education and planning, then uses a political science perspective to view the planning process in American school districts, noting for what, for whom, and by whom planning is done; in what specific policy areas planning occurs; and how planning is accomplished. (SB)

Faces the development of group psychotherapy in the normal range of the population, highlighting certain significant psychological, social, and educational factors. Emphasizes the impetus behind forms of group therapy (t-groups, encounter groups, self-awareness groups, growth groups) associated with the human potential movement. Surveys pertinent…

Compared to a peer group of average abilities, gifted and talented junior high school students appeared more outgoing, participating, insightful, fast-learning, intellectually adaptable, conscientious, persistent, and moralistic, thus indicating significant between-group differences. (SB)

Defines cases, symmetry, and analysis as the heuristic strategies most commonly employed by a select group of high school students in solving novel mathematics problems. Confirms that the utilization of heuristics appears to be problem-dependent. Describes the procedure, actual problems, results, and recommendations of the study. (SB)

Relates the English language spelling system to sound and examines whether spellers make use of the information available in that relationship when spelling words. Describes how certain phonological features of a dialect spoken along the northeast coast of Newfoundland influence spelling errors among fourth graders. (SB)

Children and adolescents tested to determine the development of the operator construct of rational numbers employed different problem-solving strategies depending on test presentation. Three major phases in the rational number construct appear to be a primitive fractional construct, a unit operator phase, and a general operator phase. (SB)

The Canadian Readiness Test Learning Rate subtest and the Auditory Reception and Spatial Relations Concepts subtests on the Experimental Reading Readiness Test show high reliability in measuring the reading readiness of beginning first graders. The Experimental Test has a high coefficient of reliability as a total test. (SB)

The 50 most frequently occurring words found in primary level reading materials were taught to kindergarten pupils using three different teaching methods. Neither methodology nor frequency of occurrence affected the relative learning difficulty of sight words. The study is the second investigation in a series. (SB)

Beginning teachers experience an initial, marked socialization adjustment, then enter a plateau phase during which they internalize the values of the teaching subculture. Among beginning teachers, males appear to be more custodial in their approach than females, and teachers of science and practical subjects more custodial than teachers of…

According to cooperating teachers and a controlled evaluation, student teachers who were supervised by telephone conferencing did not demonstrate a lesser degree of teaching effectiveness, but they were not satisfied with the supervision procedure. Telephone conferencing would allow faculty to supervise a larger number of students from a central…

Compares the concepts of "value added by education" and "value of the student as a final product," noting negative aspects of the latter. Examines the problem of measuring value added by education. Explains how vocational education illustrates the need to measure the worth of education by the value it adds. (SB)