In an attempt to regain the perspective of psychological research as a whole, a dimensional model was synthesized from several popular conceptualizations. (Author/RK)

As a result of daily contacts, it was assumed that students from different socio-economic levels would develop positive attitudes toward each other and toward members of other races. This study investigated this assumption empirically using student responses to an attitudinal instrument. (Author/RK)

Since there is general agreement that all teachers do not produce the same amount of learning even when provided with similar or identical classes and teaching conditions, this study attempted to determine the relationships between specific teacher behaviors and pupil-on-task-performance. (Author/RK)

This paper is a discussion of how videocassette tape recording is used and the results of its use, in general chemistry pre-laboratory instruction at the University of Southern Mississippi. (Author)

A modified Delphi technique and Q-sort was used to replicate and update a previous study conducted four years earlier. The views of chief administrative officers in English-language teacher education institutions in Canada about the future of teacher education were sought. (Editor)

The purpose of this study is to show that the psychological climate of the classroom has an effect on the learning of students. (Editor)

The present paper is a report of an attempt to discover which one of the TCS (Teacher Characteristics Study) patterns best describes the classroom behavior of a highly effective teacher of secondary mathematics, and which one best describes the classroom behavior of a minimally effective teacher of secondary mathematics. (Author)

An attempt was made to increase the competency skills of 44 male students in grades 7 to 9 through the Socratic teaching of the theory of security and independence, the behavioral practice of coping skills, or both. (Editor)

Methodological problems associated with conservation testing, related to task validity, horizontal decalage, and inference criteria, are isolated and discussed. (Editor)

This study was an attempt to determine the nature of the pausing phenomena in oral reading, and whether these phenomena are possible overt features of the verbal processing entailed in reading orally, and also in reading silently, by relating them to the silent and oral reading comprehension abilities of the subjects. (Author)

This study was a replication of Vernon's re-standardization of the Burt-Vernon Graded Word Reading Test (Vernon, 1973). The purpose of the replication was to compare rural Albertan reading attainments with those of Calgary children, and to provide local norms on a graded word reading test. (Author)

The prediction that level of teacher self-actualization would be directly related to humanism in teacher pupil control ideology was supported by data gathered from a sample of 272 public school teachers. (Editor)

The intention of the present study was to assess adolescent pupils' liking for physical education as a school subject and what aspects of this subject they particularly liked and disliked. (Editor)

Article described the Environmental Education Project developed at the Institute of Educational Research, University of Oslo, Norway, in 1969 and is a summary of the main ideas, aims, experiences and present results of this project. (Editor/RK)

Examines the present grading system, including its purposes, usefulness and failures, and presents some alternative systems. (RC)