Article describes a systems analysis model for large educational enterprises, which prominently employs instructional objectives. (Author)

Discusses tendencies in systems management procedures that are indicative of the curriculum field's social commitments, systems language as social rhetoric, and the constitutive aspect of systems procedures as they are applied today in education. (Author/GB)

Gives estimates of the proportion of AERA members who are researchers and who publish research at some point in their career. (Editor)

Humanistic and custodial elementary school teachers differ in the frequency of use of verbal behaviors in the areas of accepting and developing student ideas, lecturing, and student-initiated verbal behaviors. (Editor)

Using praise and student-initiated ideas, along with avoiding criticism and showing positive regard for the student as a person, characterized teachers who tended to promote the child's own goals. (Editor)

Since an annual review now appears in the Reading Research Quarterly which will be combined with the Eric effort and other more specialized reviews, this is the last of the forty-one annual summaries and reviews to appear in The Journal of Educational Research. (Authors/CB)

This investigation of 133 first grade Ss (25 percent Hispano--75 percent Anglo and 50 percent male), found no significant correlations between objective scores of young children's self-concept and their first or second grade reading achievement. (Author)

Summary data are reported for the forty-one annual reviews of studies related to reading reported in The Journal of Educational Research. Total studies reported each year are reported along with lists of journals cited most frequently in the areas of sociology, psychology, physiology, and the teaching of reading. (Authors)

Purpose of this study was to show the relationship of arithmetic reasoning, critical thinking, fluency of words, fluency of ideas, sensitivity to problems, and general intelligence to literal and critical reading of sixth and eighth grade pupils. (Author)

This study examined the relationship between village Indian and Eskimo students' perception of the classroom climate in integrated classrooms and their verbal participation in classwork. (Author)

This study measured differences between two groups being taught in English and Spanish in a physical education class. It was predicted that students instructed bilingually would be superior to those instructed monolingually. (Author/RK)

Article considered the connection between low achievement pattern and verbal concepts of Indians compared to non-Indian children at the time they began kindergarten and first grade. (Author/RK)

Some of the purposes of this study were to determine if differences exist between students' self-esteem and self-concept of ability in integrated and segrated schools, and if these differences are related to the race of the students. (Author/RK)

The present study was undertaken to investigate differences in high school performance scholastic aptitude, and achievement motivation between disadvantaged college students who persisted successfully for 2 years and those who discontinued their studies before completing 1 year at an urban commuter university. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to replicate and slightly refine and extend the procedures of Houston and Otto, who pointed out the need for studying the relationship between easily administered, individual measures of intelligence with more diagnostic and more highly validated measures. (Author/RK)