As an aid for teachers in instruction planning, a detailed English course of study is presented. Philosophies for each of three parts: Composition; Language; Literature are given. Each of these sections includes: Aims, Instructional Materials, Suggestions. (NF)

Investigated was the effect of the use of 20 Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Single Topic Inquiry Films upon the critical thinking abilities and process skills of high school sophomores enrolled in BSCS Blue Version biology. Instruments used were the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal and Processes of Science Test. The results…

The mathematics performance of 1,098 learning disabled (LD) Florida tenth graders on the Florida State Assessment Test-II was evaluated. LD students tended to perform better on skills requiring literal use of numbers and worse on skills requiring application of mathematical knowledge. Employers' ratings supported the importance of skills tested.…

Available evidence suggests that the curriculum theories of social studies professors are seldom the same as teachers' curriculum practices. Three 10th-grade U.S. history classrooms were studied to explore curriculum consonance: the relationships among the intended curriculum, what ensues in the classroom, and what students learn. Includes 36…

Examined the relationships among global self-concept, self-concept of academic ability, and academic achievement of 211 10th-grade Black American adolescents. No significant relationship was found betwen global self-concept and academic achievement, although the relationship between self-concept of academic ability and academic achievement reached…

The data for this report were obtained from the Monitoring the Future study. Surveys from eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade respondents were used to examine adolescents' reasons for use, abstention, and quitting illicit drug use. Many reasons were found for drug use. Abstainers provided more reasons for their abstention than quitters gave for their…

The Novel Maturity Scale measures what secondary students are reading and determines the quality of material read. (RB)

Effects of social modeling on 247 10th grade Mexican American and non-Mexican American boys were investigated. (Author)

Attempts to analyze a time-series pattern of achievement on selected intelligence, aptitude and achievement tests, of slow sections of tenth grade biology classes grouped upon the basis of previous school achievement. (Author/CP)

Describes how a "problem" student bucks the system and wins. (RL)

The present study investigated the stability of response intransitivity in the method of paired comparisons over a two-year period. Intransitivity scores obtained from two administrations of the Minnesota Importance Questionnaire were correlated to determine stability. Results provided support for the linear relationship between the two measures.…

An investigation of the possibility of teaching students to apply mathematical heuristics to novel mathematical problems is presented. Tenth-grade students demonstrated the ability to apply one heuristic to the solution of novel problems, regardless of the vehicle used. (JMF)