Expanded the curriculum of an assertiveness training program. Found that boys and girls benefited similarly in the cognitive acquisition of assertiveness information from this program. Discusses results in terms of the difference between having stored symbolic information regarding assertive responses and in recognizing appropriate contexts for…

A new approach to the inductively oriented elementary social studies curriculum is offered in this revised edition which describes rationale, teaching strategies and procedures, and evaluation strategies for the latter. This edition contains modification of term explanations and meanings and two new chapters covering the role of questioning and…

One of the major focuses of this project was the revision of existing curriculum guides for grades one through six (the Contra Costa Social Studies Guides) and the development of guides for grades seven and eight. The emphases were: organization of learning activities under significant generalizations of main concepts; sequential treatment;…