The present study evaluates the effect of a classroom-based behavioral intervention package to improve Japanese elementary school children's sitting posture in regular classrooms (N = 68). This study uses a multiple-baseline design across two classrooms with a modified repeated reversal within each class. The article defines appropriate sitting…

Surveyed 45 Japanese corporations to determine common training methods and use of systematic design and development processes. Results indicate that overall there was more internal classroom training than on-the-job training and that only two of the companies had a formal, systematic approach to instruction design and development. (JMV)

This paper discusses "the classroom as a social system" as an idea which has implications for teacher training. Reference is made throughout to the author's own recent research (ED 003 449 and ED 017 965) and his teaching of undergraduate and graduate educational psychology. Section 1, "The Conceptual Framework," includes (1) definition of the…