This paper is concerned with a group of immature ESN school leavers specially selected for a course of work preparation at the Cliffdale Industrial Training Unit in Portsmouth. (Author)

Purpose of this study is to examine the Foundation course experience of Dip.A.D. students at a provincial college and to relate it to the degree of satisfaction felt on their Diploma course. (Author)

The intrinsic merits of student teaching are discussed. (CK)

The results of research on the attitudes and degrees of contentment of college students are discussed. (CK)

Examines three reliability characteristics of the Harris revision of the Goodenough "Draw-a-man" Test when used with five-year-old school entrants. (Author/RK)

Examines bilingualism and academic achievement in mechanical mathematics. (Author)

Quotes some conclusions from various sources regarding the wasting effects that addiction to inferential techniques have had, or could have, upon research into educational problems and assesses if these particular techniques are increasing or decreasing in popularity among British educational researchers. (Author/RK)

The investigation described here was carried out in the hope that some kind of classification of children's early written English could be found which would help them to learn sentence skills more effeciently. (Author/RK)

A national sample of pupils in multiracial schools answered questions about their actual and desired friendship choices. The sample comprised 1288 pupils in the second and fourth years of junior schools and 3012 pupils in the second and fourth years of secondary schools. (Author)

Around one-third of pupils in British schools take no part in extra-curricular activities. This article looks at the adequacy of extra-curricular provision from the pupil's viewpoint. (Author/MB)

Investigation indicates that there are weaknesses in the present system of teaching practice assessment, particularly in the diversity of the methods of assessment. (Authors)

Neville Bennett's "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" has attracted widespread attention for its major conclusion that formal teaching styles foster greater pupil progress than more informal ones. Examines the adequacy of the research on which this claim is based. (Author/RK)

Based on a survey of 969 university entrants from 163 comprehensive schools in England and Wales, this article examines the effect of the 'open' sixth form upon the educational background of university students. (Author)

The relative effectiveness of two methods of instruction, orally-presented lessons and a written version of those lessons, was investigated using a post-test, an attitude scale, and time taken for instruction as criteria. (Author/RK)

Examines basic attitudes of the teacher toward teaching reading. (RK)