A study of 66 university students who studied a chapter, rated the way they studied, and completed two tests on the chapter indicates that the self-report method appears to be a reasonable way to monitor what subjects are doing and undergoing when they are studying. (Author/CM)

Findings suggested that teacher militancy may have had little impact on the job satisfaction of principals because the teacher organizations might have been more concerned with salaries and fringe benefits than with issues directly influencing school policy and decision making. (Author/CM)

Evidence gathered in a study of 106 students in a course in elementary school mathematics methods shows that work with a nondecimal numeration system involving entirely new number symbols and names can lead to heightened awareness and appreciation of difficulties that children might have in understanding base ten numeration. (Author/CM)

A modified management by objectives process holds great potential for implementing a participatory approach to management in educational institutions. Such a procedure recognized the expertise of a professional staff and facilitates growth in individuals and in the total organization. (Author/CM)

Presents a case for the approach to thinking which takes logicality for granted and studies understanding. Argues that description of the qualitatively different ways in which people experience and understand various aspects of reality make up an autonomous field of inquiry, called phenomenography. (NEC)

Evaluation by educational experts and 210 students of 15-minute videotaped sixth-grade teaching periods conducted by 26 student teachers assessed the relationship between teacher characteristics and student reactions. Characteristics examined were problem-solving ability, social sensitivity, feeling of security, and educational attitude. The…

Evaluation of 54 mentally retarded pupils, aged 10 to 13, in 1979 and comparison with six samples of mentally normal pupils collected during the last two decades confirm that prevalence of additional problems among mentally retarded pupils is greater as compared to mentally normal pupils with respect to nine variables. (NEC)

Eighteen Mexican American pupils in the grades 1-3 from two urban Kansas schools were tested, using 18 pairs of sound contrasts, for auditory discrimination problems related to their language-different background. Results showed v-b, ch-sh, and s-sp contrasts were the most difficult for subjects to discriminate. (LC)

Sixty-four teachers and student teachers from rural and urban schools were given the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory (MTAI) and the Classroom Environment Scale (CES) to investigate the relationship between teaching style and classroom learning atmosphere. Results indicated teachers create classroom sociopsychological climates consonant with…

Describes some obdurate problems and issues in personality theory and research and the shortcomings of attempts to resolve them. Assesses the trans-situational consistency of behavioral persistence of 22 second graders (10 males, 12 females) in east Vancouver by intercorrelating the rank orders of their behavioral persistence scores from three…

To investigate whether children who had been in a bilingual instructional program for three years or less would have some cognitive advantages over those in monolingual programs, 96 (50 percent male, 50 percent female) first to third graders from Edmonton (Alberta) were tested in 1979. The children in bilingual programs outperformed their…

Results from testing 20 first graders in a remedial class in Maryland indicated that: same pattern recognition was significantly higher than reverse pattern recognition; identical pattern recognition did not affect performance on reading and arithmetic achievement; reverse pattern recognition significantly affected performance on reading and…

Fifteen teachers from Edmonton (Alberta), receiving face to face instruction about Landsat satellite maps, were compared to 15 teachers from Sherwood Park (Alberta) who received instruction by one-way television and simultaneous group conferencing. Pupils taught by both groups performed equally well. These results indicate television group…

Evaluates relationship between heavy television viewing and other variables, especially educational attainment, by testing 275 Edmonton (Alberta) fifth to sixth graders. Finds youngsters whose parents have higher socioeducational status (SES), characterized by heavy use of symbolic skills, watch less TV than SES counterparts; heavy TV watching is…

Reviews literature and research on child abuse, emphasizing correlation between abuse and exceptionality of the child. States child abuse is not linked with poverty or socioeconomic level; the role of conditions in prompting abuse is hard to assess; a child's special needs may create the stressful environment prompting abuse. (LC)