Twenty-nine first grade monolingual English speaking children and 59 English second language children (given the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and the Raven Matrices in kindergarten) were tested via the Metropolitan Achievement Test to determine achievement levels of Italian children and the predictive relationship between measures of ability…

Comparing 9-12-year-old readers with college student readers, two experiments were conducted to determine how youngsters differ from adults in their ability to identify meaningful units in a written passage, how they are affected by sentences of increasing difficulty, and whether they are aided by either shorter sentences or meaningful…

Providing background information on a dispute between the Holdeman Mennonites and two Alberta farming communities in which the Mennonites established schools, this article seeks to explain the differences in conflict level through analysis of ideological and structural differences in the two communities. (JC)

Reporting assumptions, procedures, findings, and implications re the second year of a two-year study of moral education involving 411 secondary students and 13 teachers, this article indicates hypotheses concerning treatment group differences in distinguishing factoral and value claims and moral development were not confirmed. (JC)

Comparing the effectiveness of four methods for training young children (4-4.5 years) in the skills of visual discrimination necessary to letter knowledge acquisition, this study indicates that training in oral description of critical cues of letters contributes to superior achievement in learning to match letters. (JC)

Exploring a technique for acquiring qualitative data from standardized instruments and using them in formative evaluation of new cirricula, this article discusses assets and limitations of the qualitative analysis technique as applied to a grade 10 science course. (JC)

Administering a semantic differential to 53 early childhood, elementary, and middle school majors at the University of Georgia, this study analyzed the affective regard of preservice teachers when they perceived having one vs several exceptional children in their regular classrooms. (JC)

Discussing factors that have contributed to the development of Human Services programs in universities and colleges in the U.S., this article describes characteristics of the Human Services major in the context of the School Counselor's role. (JC)

Taking the position that researchers cannot assume that a parent or teacher trained in Adlerian psychological methods can or will actually apply those methods in real life adult-child interactions, this article presents a quantitative system for determining the degree to which a teacher or parent has implemented Adlerian methods. (JC)

Essays written by Nigerian Form V secondary students on "Qualities I Prefer Most in My Teacher" were analyzed in terms of students' attitudes toward teacher age, sex, appearance, relation to staff, teaching competence, participation in school social activities, devotion to school duties and student problems, etc. (JC)

A study was conducted employing mail questionnaires, telephone surveys, and in-depth interviews to determine the role perception of paraprofessionals engaged in home intervention programs for preschool children and the impact of role perception on successful home visitation programs. (JC)

Describing results of a field-based program for an entry level course in teacher education, this article indicates six of seven teacher education classes made gains (measured via pre- and post-testing with the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory) at the .001 level and one class made gains at the .05 level. (JC)

The ratings of classroom teachers of behaviors which are more prevalent in boys than in girls were compared with regard to their relative effect on teachers' attitudes. The behaviors more prevalent in boys were rated as significantly more disturbing to teachers. The findings are discussed with regard to their implications within an ecological…

This article explores the probable extent of participation of school personnel in curriculum decision making by presenting data regarding: (a) preferences for seven kinds of curriculum work, (b) preferences for five levels of curriculum decision making, and (c) perceptions of the attractiveness of curriculum work. The findings are discussed at…

This study cited data from five independently conducted case studies collected by trained observers employing a classroom observation category system designed for the study. The findings suggest that "instructional intent" and the conditions of "knowing that" are independent of circular knowledge organization in use. (Author/RTS)