Defensiveness was the major reaction of students subjected to failure on an important examination; their self ideal-self discrepancy scores changed in a downward direction after they were given papers containing failing marks. (Editor)

In a study of centralized and decentralized schools, it was found that parents' age, race, or socioeconomic status were not as significant as type of district in which their children attend school as indicators of parents' satisfaction with schools. (Editor/SP)

The high school students studied had more favorable attitudes toward the 4-year institutions on twenty-seven of the forty dimensions studied. (Editor)

Authors studied superintendents, principals, and teachers from urban and central city school districts and grouped them as education managers, anxious participators, ambivalent participators, and educational bystanders. (Editor)

Test anxious students were less likely to have effective study habits and more likely to delay academic tasks than those showing low debilitating anxiety. (Editor)

An assessment of instruction of reading groups by female elementary teachers showed the teacher's increased positive regard for students was translated into classroom behavior which elicited higher levels of cognitive functioning from the students. (Editor)

Authors hypothesized that many teachers have classroom behavior management skills in their repertoires but lack techniques for using them as systematically as possible; conventional postgraduate courses are a vehicle for introducing experienced teachers to these skills. (Editor)

Described and illustrated is the use of the computer program GRADER which returns a letter grade and rank for students. (MB)

Review of book by Leon Lessinger. (MB)

In this survey, author finds that satisfied students are more willing to discuss problems with their residence hall counselors than less satisfied students and that females were more positive about the concept of residence counseling and often described their counselors differently than did males. (MB)

Study evaluates certain common uses of the Brown-Holtzman Survey of Study Habits and Attitudes (SSHA) in a college-level educational skills course. (Authors/MB)

Study asks whether laboratory findings, that isolation of an item facilitates its recall, extend to formal educational settings. (Authors)

A sample of 184 teachers was studied in relation to their first-person point of view of teaching effectiveness. (Author)

Purpose of the study was to determine if primary school children, when exposed to verbal and pictorial descriptions of potentially reinforcing stimuli, could accurately differentiate between the reinforcement potency of these stimuli. (Authors)