This study is designed to examine the effects of academic performance feedback on self-concept, more operationally refferred to as self-report. (Author)

The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of behavior contracting on grades attained by disadvantaged junior high school students. (Author)

The Zeigarnik effect, that is, the greater recall of incompleted over completed tasks was found to be significantly more frequent in Ss of high than low resultant achievement motivation, but no difference was found between repressors and sensitizers in this effect. (Authors)

The particular variable manipulated in this study was the testing procedure. The experimental test contingency is called programmed student achievement which involves requiring a student to retake tests until he has evidenced 100 percent mastery of discrete units of material. (Author/CB)

The authors state that quantity and quality of televiewing have not changed in 20 years and are not a predictor of pupil achievement. (Authors)

Successful implementation of a modular-flexible schedule was found to facilitate subsequent school structure changes by principals; questionnaires were sent to school principals and a national jury'' to provide both practical and theoretical answers. (Editor/SP)

On the basis of this study, a tentative hypothesis may be formed: Teacher sex per se is not a major variable in the higher incidence of reading disability among boys. (Author)

Investigation focused on the conceptual modification of professional and bureaucratic role conceptions which accompanies passage from education student to public school teacher. (Authors)

Results of the study lend support to the contention that the interview method is superior to the conventional lecture method is promoting achievement. (Authors)

Pupils in an open plan (as opposed to traditional) school were found to have more positive attitudes toward school and themselves and scored higher on some measures of productivity; on measures of curiosity there were no differences. (Editor)

Results indicate that all values do not develop simultaneously but are influenced by sex, grade, and occupational group. (Editor)

The longer a principal remains at a school the greater the level of significance of the relationship between high behavioral characteristics and school climate becomes. (Editor)

Study of degree of congruence of expectations between teacher and student'' in process oriented vs. content oriented social studies programs; congruity was greater in the latter type of program, but participant satisfaction greater in the former, thus leading to a rethinking of the congruence-satisfaction relationship. (Author/SP)

The Teacher Image Questionnaire was analyzed; educators may benefit from the results as they try to recognize the limitations, strengths, and meaning of student reactions to teachers. (Editor/SP)

Effective departmental chairmen may exhibit characteristics such as ability to recruit promising faculty, a capacity for decisive thinking and action, and support of good teaching; less desirable characteristics were being first among equals, fund raising, and being highly identified with one's own discipline. (Editor)