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Peer reviewedDarch, Craig B.; Thorpe, Harold W. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The effect of principal attention contingent upon tem on-task performance was examined in an unruly fourth-grade class. Principal attention was found to be a strong reinforcer in both experimental conditions, but percentage of on-task behavior during team consequences was higher than during individual consequences. (Author)
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Contingency Management
Peer reviewedChapman, Antony J. – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Independent groups of seven-year-old subjects listened to humor on headphones, either with a nonlistening companion (audience) or with a companion who also listened (coactor). In coaction sessions, children sitting closer engaged in more eye contact, laughter, and smiling. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Children, Distance, Elementary Education
Rudner, Howard L.; And Others – Canadian Counsellor, 1976
The relationship between isolation in the elementary school classroom and self-concept was investigated. It was hypothesized that children who were isolated or rejected by their classmates would possess low self-concepts. No such relationship was found. Self-concepts of suburban children differed from those found in the rural sample. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interaction Process Analysis, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewedSalvia, John; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1977
The purpose of this study was to ascertain the relationship between rated attractiveness and two measures of school performance. Attractive children received significantly higher report cards and, to some degree, higher achievement test scores than their unattractive peers. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedLindholm, Byron W.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
This study examined the influence of family structure and school variables on behavior disorders of children (N=1,162). Results indicated grade in school, sex, social class, ordinal position in the family, and teacher were important variables in the determination of behavior disorders. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Family Relationship
Peer reviewedBack, Richard; Dana, Richard H. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1977
The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (excluding Mazes and Digit Span) was administered to 64 third-grade children, randomly selected for IQ. Female examiners elicited higher Full Scale IQ, Verbal IQ, Comprehension, Similarities, and Vocabulary scores from all children. (Author)
Descriptors: Counselor Role, Elementary School Students, Intelligence Tests, Interaction Process Analysis
Peer reviewedEhly, Stewart W.; Larsen, Stephen C. – Psychology in the Schools, 1976
A peer tutoring program in spelling was developed to investigate effects of several tutor and tutee characteristics on tutorial outcomes, amount of learning and learning efficiency. Examination of the data reveals only the tutee's pretutorial spelling score was a significant predictor of the amount of learning. (Author)
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Interaction Process Analysis, Peer Relationship, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedGreenwood, Charles R.; And Others – Journal of School Psychology, 1977
The effects of the Program for Academic Survival Skills (PASS), a group behavior management program, on behavioral observation data and standardized achievement test measures were investigated. Results indicated PASS produced significant gains in survival skills during operation and one week following termination in reading and mathematics periods…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
Download full textWetterstrom, Magnhild – 1974
After a short introductory discussion, the results are presented from a series of mapping studies in which headmasters, supervisory teachers, student teachers and different teacher and student groups have expressed their views on co-influence in the school--how they experience the situation today and how they would like the influence to be divided…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Democratic Values, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedHill, Ada D.; Strain, Phillip S. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The effects of teacher-delivered social reinforcers on the task persistent behavior of children enrolled in an intermediate class for the educable mentally retarded were studied. Increases in the level of task persistent behavior and the administration of social reinforcement were functionally related. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
DUNN, JAMES A.; SAFFORD, PHILIP L. – 1967
AGE, SEX, AND IQ DIFFERENCES IN THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONCEPTUAL PERFORMANCE OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WERE STUDIED. PERFORMANCE MEASURES WERE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF DUNN'S OBJECT SORTING TASK (OST) WHICH PROVIDED SUCH INDICATORS AS SIZE OF THE COGNITIVE MATRIX, ACCESSIBILITY OF THE CONCEPTS IN THE MATRIX, AND DEGREE OF PRECISION IN…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Tests
Peer reviewedTouliatos, John; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
This study was concerned with academic performance in black and white children and the interactions of race with other variables on school achievement. Results indicated blacks scored lower than whites and fell farther behind as they progressed from grade to grade. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Achievement, Black Students, Elementary School Students
Sewald, Andrea M.; And Others – 1977
Research indicates that boys perform better on mathematics tests while girls perform better on reading tests. An investigation of why boys' and girls' performance differs was made by coding teacher interactions with second grade students during reading and mathematics instruction. Results reveal that teachers: made relatively more academic contact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
