Analyzes and categorizes directional factors, and exploratory sequences related to them, via videotaped sessions of two teenage school work groups. Shows stimuli which initiate exploratory sequences are found for all directional factors in problem solving or decision making. Reveals rule-governed or routinized behavior relates to directional…

Provides research dealing with the school as an organization and offers an alternative development strategy based on the studies. Shows previous research was either functionalist or structuralist in approach. Research describes the school as an organization in terms of professionalism or bureaucracy. Additionally, it is described as a coercive…

Questions Piaget's theory that young children's speech is primarily egocentric. Suggests their speech can be highly socialized or sociocentric as early as age two. Examines the relationship between egocentric and sociocentric speech within the context of the social theory of language acquisition and provides conclusions and implications for the…

Identifies and analyzes interests (curiosity, wishes, favorite activities) and concerns (aversions, worries, fears) of 528 Nigerian rural and urban children age 7 to 13. Shows age to be the main determinant of differences. Major interests included biological functioning, personal possession, and play. Major concerns included injustice, aggressive…

Uses a sample of 34 beginning secondary school teachers in Australia to obtain data on their perceptions of the relationship between five dimensions of school environment (affiliation, professional interest, achievement orientation, formalization, and innovativeness) and five dimensions of classroom environment (personalization, participation,…

Describes development of an instrument to measure high school students' opinions toward the world of work and the results of administering the 75-item questionnaire to 1,035 students in Alberta. Shows opinions supportive of traditional prairie work ethic. Results tended to be consistent with those presented in literature. (AH)

Uses 12 subscale scores on the Personal Orientation Inventory to assess effects of a practicum experience upon self-actualization of 79 University of Alberta graduate students (counseling students with and without practicum, and noncounseling students). Results indicate a facilitative effect of practicum upon self-actualization. (AH)

Uses fourth-grade classes (N=94) from four separate rural schools to measure increases in simultaneous and successive processing due to an intervention program to improve simultaneous processing in spelling, arithmetic, and reading used on two experimental classes. Individual marker tests show significant change, as do reading and arithmetic…

Utilizes 42 second-grade rural students to determine if using multiembodiments rather than a single embodiment of concepts related to three-digit numbers would result in greater understanding of selected place value concepts. Reveals no significant differences on the group main effect or group-by-time interactions. (AH)

Investigates impact of achievement test results (N=285) on 13 sixth-grade teachers' expectations using hypotheses from cognitive dissonance theory. Shows teacher expectations changed very little as a result of feedback, and test results for both under- and overestimated students were rejected. (AH)

Undertakes a critical examination of the basic premises underlying linguistic and conceptual training programs for preschool children. Shows how widely used preschool programs are based on inadequate assumptions concerning language, language use, and communication. (Author/BRR)

To understand the dynamics of development trends, it is necessary to examine not only enrollment or transition rates but also the absolute numbers that constitute the bases for these rates. The problem is illustrated using current Swedish data on enrollment and transition rates in higher education for men and women. (Author/BRR)

Tends to support assertion that children from homes broken by separation, divorce, or death are less well-adjusted in terms of California Personality Inventory scales of self-control, socialization, femininity, and good impression, than children from intact homes. Age and sex were not found to be linked to the degree of maladjustment. (AH)

An eight-stage model was developed for implementing a five-month program of sustained silent reading. Data from 65 intermediate grade classrooms (using individual students as analysis units) revealed no significant differences on standardized and informal measures and no significant interactive effects. The teachers' summative evaluation found the…

A discussion is given concerning possible interactions of balance with spatial ability and M-space, i.e., the span of short-term memory. Thirty graduate statistics students were the subjects in an investigation that revealed a sizable Balance by spatial by M-space triple interaction. (Author/AH)