Considers probable consequences of ends and means proposed by advocates of accountability. These consequences include accountability's effect on student commitment to education and on teacher professionalism. (Author)

This research sample finds the most desirable racial balance to be found in classrooms of 21-40 percent and 41-60 percent nonwhite pupil composition in the mixed white type of school. (Author/JN)

Support for the view that the attribution of physical and psychological causation have different bases and sources of origin is evident in this study. Using a factor-analysis technique the researcher investigates a child's causal reasoning about personal and physical situations. (SM)

Purpose of this investigation was to assess the effects of behavioral objectives, criterion evaluation, and remediation upon the classroom progress of disruptive adolescents. (Authors)

It is evident that pupil dissatisfaction was the greatest in those schools where an administrative style approached the authoritarian model, i.e., the small schools. (Authors)

Study suggests that an important social stimulus is the sex of the child's peers. Peer sex and changes in the sex composition of dyads affect the frequency of occurrence in several categories of social behavior. (Authors/CB)

Reported were data on the classroom functioning of 602 high school students attending eight different urban ghetto schools, including assessments of reasoning ability, verbal productivity, original and independent thinking, anxiety, rapport, obstreperousness, negativism, withdrawal, and expression of inability to cope with achievement demands.…

The paper presented the case of a 9-year-old boy whose physical appearance and behavior were those of a 6-year-old, and questioned whether he should be diagnosed as immature or defective. (Author/GW)

The study goes beyond the well-documented relationship between delinquent associations and involvement in delinquency to a consideration of independent consequences. Findings show that just as actual and potential reaction of peers can influence behavior without necessarily shaping normative commitments at the same time, so sensitivity of children…

A procedure for recording and coding teacher and pupil behaviors in the classroom has been described and suggested as an assessment instrument of the school psychologist. (Author)

Urges teachers to be alert to emotional needs of children, particularly in view of contemporary lack of family cohesiveness and to formalize programs to strengthen children emotionally as part of daily teacher function. (CJ)

Major results indicated that (a) mothers who had not attended college were markedly more prohibitive and intrusive than college-educated mothers; (b) mothers were more intrusive with sons than with daughters; and (c) the children were generally obedient. (Authors)