Lists four areas of reading activity that encourage interaction and mutual contributions between students and teacher. (TO)

Raises the need to reexamine Piaget's model of development in terms of its capacity to incorporate instances of cognitive regression into the structural framework of the theory. (CS)

Those Ss who scored high, medium or low on a scale of trait (predispositional) anxiety were found to differ reliably in level of state (situational) anxiety when tested before and after two standardized interviews. This relationship held for both male and female Ss, although males manifested consistently higher levels of state anxiety than…

This tongue-in-cheek article writted by the late Fred Barnes was first published in May 1967. It is being reprinted in this issue as a reminder that useful educational research avoids the pitfall of pointlessly massaging the obvious. (Editor)

Study data indicated that a combination of awareness and reinforcement was more effective in increasing the emission of target statements than either variable alone. (Author)

The Ethical Judgment Scale was used to identify and categorize the ethical-professional posture of community college counselors when dealing with specific problem cases. The dimensions of ethical and legal problems confronting counselors were also investigated. (Author)

The primary purpose of the present experiment was to examine the relationship of race and sex of model and observer in imitative performance and imitative knowledge. (Author)

Discusses the role of the teacher in helping children to become independent learners, and what is meant by independent study. (GB)

Monkeys with a severe visual acuity deficit were reared in social isolation to determine factors related to sterotyped movements, which have been observed in visually handicapped persons. (Author/MC)

A description and discussion of an experiment which placed normal college males into a prison-like environment related the term "prison" to any environment restricting human freedom, and explored the control of behavior by situations and roles with reference to educational settings, specifically the high school. (Author/KM)

The purpose of the present study, is to determine to what extent Change Seeker Index scores correlate with the reported incidence of specific behaviors judged by the authors to rank high in stimulation-seeking characteristics. (Author)

The focus of this study was on early church attendance and its influence on premarital heterosexual activity in young adulthood. (Author)

A drug-use survey was administered in a large metropolitan, middle class high school to test two hypotheses: a. drug users can be divided according to the types of drugs used (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana vs. opiates, LSD, amphetamines, etc.); and, b. respondents' drug use is significantly related to their peers drug use. Both hypotheses were…

A description of the current status of television and radio exposure among five to nineteen year-old British children. (Author)

Special attention should be directed toward helping pre-service teachers to gain a knowledgeable perspective on the various types of home learning patterns and how these patterns effect child behavior styles in the classroom. (Authors)