Describes strategies for promoting student success within diverse groups of learners. Discusses specific ways to develop a valuing teacher-student relationship that promotes success: getting to know students and providing structures such as individual conferences and meaningful evaluation systems can help learners to feel valued as individuals, to…

Assessed preschoolers' peer aggression and emotional displays outside of and during aggressive interactions, their emotion knowledge, and peer acceptance. Found that connections between affective dispositions and aggression and peer acceptance varied as a function of the emotion context and the particular emotion involved. Significant connections…

Presents four opinions from middle school educators concerning curriculum integration: (1) the inexperienced may transition better; (2) middle level education needs a clear vision for children and ways to deliver it; (3) middle level educators need to learn from past success and failures; and (4) middle school educators can provide guidance to…

Examined the connection between gender differences in examinees' familiarity, interest, and negative emotional reactions to items on the College Board's Advanced Placement Psychology Examination and the items' differential item functioning (DIF). Gender differences for a sample of 717 students for the 3 variables were substantially related to the…

Four groups of mostly female students, differing in age, English proficiency, ethnicity, and social class, were surveyed in Australian competency-based technical and further education programs. They appreciated the practical focus and continuous assessment of competency-based training. However, some aspects of it made it unsuitable for certain…

Describes a teaching strategy used in undergraduate reading/language arts methods classes that combines methods from case-based instruction and reader response to literature by using literature case studies--novels that contain school-based events and characters. Offers entries from undergraduate education students' literature logs to describe the…

A study investigated classroom dynamics and 13 young children at risk for the development of serious emotional disturbances (SED) as compared to 13 typical peers. Students at risk of SED were generally rejected by teachers, spent less time academically engaged, and received more negative or neutral nonacademic teacher feedback. (Author/CR)

Three analytic approaches were used in a framework of classical test theory to examine the construct validity of a mathematics assessment of 16 constructed response items. Results from 280 elementary school students across four age groups suggest a developmental structure of tasks and subdomains that was generally consistent with the test's…

Observed face-to-face interactions between 39 mothers and their first and second-born two-month olds to evaluate within-family differences in maternal affective behavior toward siblings. Found that mothers were more positive with second-borns than firstborns, and second-borns were more positive than firstborns. Siblings' affective behaviors were…

Assessed the relative contribution of gender and gender role orientation to empathy and its development in 119 Israeli 8th and 11th graders. When the contribution of masculinity/femininity was covaried, empathy was found unrelated to gender. Findings are discussed in terms of socialization of emotions and gender role orientation. (SLD)

Discusses why two high school teachers in Kentucky teach the novel "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, discussing their beginnings, their experiences, their approach, and their goals and criteria. Discusses prereading, reading, and postreading activities. Discusses concerns raised by teachers regarding student maturity and parental approval, and…

Argues that current library and information science discourse has drawn definitional boundaries around the word "information" so tightly as to exclude research on reading. Highlights include access to, versus content of, information; literacy studies; print culture history; reader-response theory; ethnography of reading; cultural…

Studied cross-cultural differences using still-face paradigm with 3- to 6-month-old Chinese infants. Found that infants looked and smiled less to both parents' still face; experimental group showed similar still-face effects to both mothers and a stranger. Comparison to archival data from Canadian infants showed that, although Chinese infants took…

Explored the role of folktales of deception in developing 3- and 4-year-olds' theory of mind. Found that the story's deceptions elicit discussions that change over successive readings as the child shows increasing comprehension of the deceptions and decreasing need of parental support. Parent's and child's gender influenced frequency and…

Presents an interview with James O. Horton, a professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University and the Director of the Afro-American Communities Project at the National Museum of American History. Focuses on topics such as why Horton became a history teacher, favorite courses to teach, and most memorable and worst teaching…