THE INVESTIGATION STUDIED THE FACTORS WHICH DETERMINED THE RELATIVE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT AND NONREINFORCEMENT FROM ADULTS ON CHILDREN'S PERFORMANCE. IT HAD BEEN ASSUMED THAT SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT MIGHT HAVE TWO EFFECTS, ONE DERIVED FROM ITS INCENTIVE VALUE AND THE SECOND DERIVED FROM ITS POTENTIALITY FOR REDUCING ANXIETY. THE…

This is a record of testimony of the Petitioners for the Community School Board District 30 against the Board of Education of the City of New York. The Community School Board is seeking intervention concerning compliance with the court's decree on the civil rights case of Aspira of New York, Inc. vs. the Board of Education of the City of New York.…

A "failsafe" technology is presented based on a new unified theory of needs assessment. Basically the paper discusses fault tree analysis as a technique for enhancing the probability of success in any system by analyzing the most likely modes of failure that could occur and then suggesting high priority avoidance strategies for those…

Research on teacher survival rates during the first three years of the teaching experience indicate that scores on preadmission interviews are a useful predictor of survival in the early teaching years. (MJB)

Effects of the motives to approach success and to avoid failure were studied in 60 fifth- and sixth-grade boys and girls of low, middle, and high levels of test anxiety. Findings indicated that anxious children perform poorly due to motivational difficulties rather than to learning deficiencies. (Author/JMB)

The effects of success, failure, and neutral instructional sets on the task performance of 90 retarded female adults were studied under varying conditions of self-awareness. (Author/CL)

Differences were examined in attribution for academic successes and failures of high school students participating in (N=116) and not participating in (N=86) programs for the gifted. Findings indicated that participating Ss tended to attribute successes to their own effort and ability to a greater degree than nonparticipating students. (Author/CL)

The educational needs of 41 adolescents appearing in Family Court and subsequently referred to the Family Court Clinic for assessment were examined. Besides education, other problem areas including both inter- and intrapersonal crises also contributed to undermining school achievement and attendance. (Author/CL)

Investigated whether failure for men and women in competitive achievement situations is differentially evaluated according to an individual's level of failure. Found the pervasive tendency to downgrade unsuccessful men in relation to unsuccessful women. (CMG)

Graduation and persistence rates were compared for 184 students, 92 of whom had repeated multiple courses or at least 1 course 3 times. A control group of 92 nonrepeating students was drawn from the remaining 303 students of the entire 1996 cohort. There was no difference between the graduation rate of repeaters and nonrepeaters. The persistence…

Questions the degree to which intensive emotional emphasis on successfully learning to read contributes to reading failure and discusses some potential outcomes of permitting students to reject reading. (TO)

The practices and problems of grading are reviewed. (MM)

The lack of information on problems, mistakes and failures of electronic data processing in libraries is described. A brief annotated bibliography on the subject is presented. (SJ)