This article is part of a wider study of career patterns within secondary schools in a Midlands local authority. It is concerned with an investigation of the typical career structure of head teachers from non-selective secondary schools as illustrated by movements over the past twenty-three years. (Editor)

The effect of the semantic organization of spoken prose on its comprehension by children was studied. The semantic structure was analyzed by dividing the prose into linguistic subunits according to grammatical structure and noting the positions of semantically related subunits. (Editor)

Preschool education has often been acclaimed as an important influence on educational achievement capable of offsetting or even compensating for social, economic and educational disadvantages. However, studies done in America and Britain suggest that its effects are not as important as might be desired. (Editor)

Propositions made about short-course comprehensive schools and about neighborhood schools were tested in an investigation of all the 12-16 schools in a single LEA characterized by high levels of educational expenditure and an egalitarian ideology. (Editor)

The article reports the construction and testing of a short scale of alienation. The scale is used in a British secondary school to explore associations between the criterion measure and children's self concept of academic ability, self esteem, extraversion, and placement in high/low ability groupings. (Editor)

In this small study, fifty references on individual teachers by their headteachers were content analysed by the author in an endeavor to find out just what was being said. (Author)

The present study endeavored to ascertain responsesof children to some of the forms of behavior previously assessed by adults and considered to be within the range of children's experience. (Author)

In this article, the nature of adolescent judgement was investigated by means of two components: the maturation of adolescent mental processes and the interaction of poetry in that maturation. (Author/RK)

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss a detailed analysis of the basic data collected by the Select Committee on Teacher Education together with supplementary data contained in the Association of Teachers in Colleges and Departments of Education (A. T. C. D. E.) Handbook for 1969. (Author/RK)

The objective of this study was to determine the relationships between different types of objective test formats: Fill in the Blanks; Matching; Multiple Choice; and True False. (Author)

The tension between personal independence and the demands of our social environment is something which all of us experience in varying degree though we react to it in very different ways. Author concerned himself with the nature of that tension and its implication for educational policy. (Author/RK)

The substance of this paper consists of discussion of relevant ideas from psycho-linguistic sources, suggestions derived from them for test material for purposes of analysis, the possible application of directed graph theory for analysing the total (T-Q) R unit, and a programme of analysis. (Author/RK)

A theory of language acquistion is proposed in outline which derives from a view of language as primarily a code for the communication of meaning intentions. (Editor)

The aims of this study were limited to an attempt to ascertain the extent to which there was agreement between secondary pupils in a number of countries in responses to questions relating to various forms of social behavior. (Author/RK)