The expectation that an effective conservation training procedure would be one in which the child was confronted with opposing points of view was investigated in an experiment and a replication experiment in which the child's point of view was brought into conflict with those of other children. (Author/RY)

The primary focus of this research is upon a secondary or derived aspect of maternal employment, namely, the supervision of children whose mothers work. (Author)

Results appear to indicate that the belief systems of the young child about the attributes of a stimulus person can be altered extensively by introducing characteristics completely unrelated to these attributes into the semantic representation of that person. (Authors)

The purpose of the study was to determine (a) whether there are differences in the way in which Negro and white experimenters interact with Negro and white subjects; and (b) whether such differences influence performance on tests of motor impulse control, reflectivity, innovative behavior, and curiosity. (Authors)

Study was aimed at determining whether positive adjectives and negative adjectives possess the oppositeness" (mutual exclusiveness) necessary for their conceptualization as defining the extremes of a single dimension of meaning. (Authors)

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

Study investigated relationships between 4-year olds' expressed humanitarian and success value preferences and their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and sex. (Author)

Study suggests that one possible way to begin to increase the attractiveness of secondary schools is to open" the climate. (Authors)

Eight hundred and eighty-two grade 5 students were examined for differences in meaning of ten school-related concepts, using the semantic differential technique. It was concluded that high achievers do not necessarily perceive school-related concepts more positively than do middle and low achievers. (DM)

Two hundred and twenty-five Lebanese elementary school children were interviewed. The ability to conserve number" and liquid" increased with age. Lebanese children lagged behind American middle-class children. (DM)

The purpose of the study was to predict the outcome of a stroke victim's vocational rehabilitation through the use of demographic and medical data. Characteristics of stroke clients were used to develop an eight-factor stroke rating scale. Recommendations for further refinement of the scale were included. (Author)

The applicability of Smallest Space Analysis is demonstrated by scaling a conditional proximity matrix of choices of fields of study. (Author)

This paper estimates for a given year (1959) both rates of return and present values to taking additional schooling in Puerto Rico, and relates these rates and present values to the increase in schooling per male worker in broad occupational categories over the 20 years, 1940-1960. (Author/RY)