This curriculum guide represents an interim revision of the twelfth-grade English Literature course which will be re-examined after the total Secondary English Programme is revised. It is planned for students who wish to survey the course and to encourage students to study more thoroughly the works of certain authors. The objectives of the course…

Results of a survey of 200 high school freshmen and sophomores (given the survey of Study Habits and Attitudes and the Mooney Problem Check List) reinforce the contention that high concern in a personal area frequently interferes with productive study habits and attitudes. (JC)

Presents worksheets formulated for high school juniors and seniors to help them learn rules for punctuation. (HTH)

A student attitude survey was administered to 195 high school seniors to determine attitudinal and behaviorial factors associated with participation in a cardiovascular risk factor screening program. Differences between participants and nonparticipants are discussed, as are differences between Black and White participants. (MT)

Of 26,246 high school seniors surveyed, 514 identified themselves as having hearing problems. Data were compared to those of their normally hearing peers regarding demographic characteristics, academic achievement, and motivation. Black students were underrepresented among mainstreamed Ss and hearing-impaired subgroup's scores on academic…

This paper presents the conceptualisation of infinity as a multi-faceted concept, discussing two examples. The first is from history and illustrates the work of Euler, when using infinity in an algebraic context. The second sketches an activity in a school context, namely students who approach the definite integral with symbolic-graphic…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is a survey of American students' knowledge and skills in different subjects at grades 4, 8, and 12. NAEP combines the samples of performances to provide information about the knowledge and skills of students in the nation as a whole, in each participating state, and in different demographic…

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…

Vocational Education can be regarded as a social investment in human capital undertaken by society at large. Fourteen vocational programs for grades eleven and twelve in eighteen Ohio high schools were evaluated according to their rates of return to society. In general the rates of return were found to be high. (DS)

Concludes that critical reading and critical thinking have little or no unique variances, that both can be accounted for by language and vocabulary ability, and that they overlap. (RB)

This article describes a program that offers freshman college courses taught by college professors to qualified high school seniors in place of the normal senior year curriculum. (Editor)

Reports the presence of a facilitating effect of exposure to a pretest on the Watson-Glaser score and a posttest following grade 12 biology instruction. (AL)

Studies age-related differences in the kind and complexity of information individuals receive about themselves. (WY)

Discusses and evaluates a black literature course. (SW)