Discusses the need to reorganize the curriculum and testing procedures in English high schools to meet student and community needs. Topics discussed include allowing students to select major and minor courses of study, vocational education, screening functions of examinations, and employment projections. (DB)

Identifies problems in assigning final grades to students based upon summing up a number of examination components. Presents a critical analysis of an article on the same topic by P. J. Squire which appeared in the journal in 1978. (Author/DB)

Investigates how student attitudes, motivation, and method of examination affect scores in English language examinations of adolescents in English high schools. (Author/DB)

Examines the resource decision processes of English education, with emphasis on decisional freedom and constraints, government influence, budgeting processes, fiscal accounting, and allocative mechanisms. (DB)

Suggests a socio-psychological approach to the definition and measurement of school organizational climate for change. The measurement instrument, the Organizational Climate for Change Questionnaire, is described. (Author/DB)

Discusses a study to compare the performances of different item analysis procedures by using five scales covering intellectual and attitudinal domains. Results are presented. (Author/DB)

Demonstrates how education can be studied through folk literature and humor, using Seba Smith's folk hero, Major Jack Downing. Illustrates a broadened conception of what constitutes education and contributes to education other than schooling. (Author/CK)

Discusses national trends and local variations in teacher education and describes a survey to ascertain students' views on the teacher training process and the debate between classroom technicians and educational analysts. (CK)

Describes study to determine bias of recorders in a typical classroom behavior modification investigation, specifically the effect of observers on pupils' behavior and the effect of induced expectations on the observer's recordings. Results show that neither variables produced bias in recording results. (KC)

A new model of research concerned with the development of religious thinking is proposed. The child's ability to use language in ways that characterize religious discourse is studied. Illustrations are taken from existing research which has studied the child's ability to use similar language idioms (metaphors, riddles, and proverbs) in a secular…

A 22-item question preference test was developed and administered to different age and ability groups in an attempt to identify "describer/explainer" question preferences. All groups preferred "explainer" questions, but there was a highly significant difference between low and high ability groups. Implications for the classroom are considered.…

An approach to the problem of acceptance of innovations based on decision theory is outlined using illustrations drawn from educational contexts. The practical implications of this approach are indicated in relation to codifying or programing innovative decisions, training decision makers, and implementing innovative projects. (Author/KC)

A study of achievement and variables of ability, attitudes, and personality is discussed. Junior high school students were tested in their third year and again in the fourth using the Crandall Internalised Achievement Responsibility Questionnaire. Results show that pupil locus of control and beliefs about intellectual achievement responsibility…

Discusses how sociobiology (the study of the biological bases of animal and human social behavior) can help education adapt to social change and provide students with a more relevant world view. (DB)

Compares the labor market position of the intelligentisia in 20th century United States with the situation in the Weimar Republic in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. Solutions to the unemployment dilemma are suggested, including requiring corporations with large government contracts to hire additional staff, improving student-teacher ratios and…