Significant differences between pass and fail students were observed when several background variables and test scores were related to degree examination results for first year students at Aberdeen University. (Author)

Article considers the teachers' views of the ideal science pupil and factors which lead to success in work and examinations. (Author)

This present study takes up the theme of activism in student-tutor relationships and explores a number of personality correlates of students' preferences for active or passive classroom relationships with college staff. (Author)

The concept of ego-ideal in relation to the development of character and personality is explored in some Western Nigerian children. (Author/RK)

The authors describe their own investigation into how the ability to differentiate emotions verbally, an important element in a child's emotional development, is influenced by factors of age, sex and social class. (Author/RK)

The aim of this study was to observe the dynamics of a socio-psychological process, namely, cohesiveness, occurring among seven-year old pupils organised in groups of five engaged in an improvised drama activity. (Author/RK)

Author offers a study of listening processes and a framework for approaching the study of the spoken language. (RK)

An investigation of the way in which some primary and grammar school children in Northern Ireland understood the meaning of the Genesis story. (Author)

Comparative study of teachers at arts colleges and teachers at public and private secondary schools; recommendations are made. (SP)

Results of 7200 responses recorded from 180 children indicate that there is a tendency for stimuli which are pigmented in the orange-red arc of the spectrum to have a high noticeability factor. (Author)

Article discusses the pros and cons of specialization at the secondary school level, including what students themselves think. (SP)

An account of the first course given to Asian teachers at the University of Nottingham Institute of Education. (Author)

The study of education should be as much a contribution to the general higher education of the student, to his development as a human being as it is to his professional competence. (Author)

The questions Piaget has put to children during his research are either ambiguous or tendentious. Consequently the answers received do not necessarily follow from the child's conception of the world but quite probably from his expectation of the kind of answer required. (Author)

Conversations of British 7-year olds and Canadian 11-year olds were analyzed to establish 3 criteria for assessing oracy in classroom situations: ideation (quality of information and its validation); interpersonal (sensitivity of relationships with listeners); and textual (choice and organization of words). Differences between the two groups point…