Five National Education Association leaders explain how teachers who taught them affected their lives and how they, in turn, have influenced other students. Teacher impacts in such areas as sensitivity, warmth, encouragement, and fairness are noted. (PP)

High school students' (N=500) and elementary school students' (N=30) dietary reports did not appear to be affected by the apparent attitude toward good food habits of the persons asking for the information. It appeared that the subjects, to the best of their ability, were telling the truth to the investigators in the two studies reported.…

A 34-item inventory was administered to students (N=10,292) in 24 school systems in 22 states to determine how they felt about schools, about their school work, and about school staffs and programs. For the most part, items showed a fairly positive attitude toward schools. (Author/JN)

Describes and evaluates Central Piedmont Community College's experimental use of the telephone as an alternative delivery system. During the experiment five faculty members taped at least 10 percent of their course lectures for student access through telephone lines during evenings and weekends. Reviews faculty and student responses. (DMM)

Examined whether students living in residence halls permitting alterations are more satisfied with their living environment than those students with less control. Results indicated that students are more satisfied with the High Change residence hall as shown by their responses to a satisfaction scale. (RC)

Advocates the application of L. Kohlberg's stages of moral reasoning to literary characters as a stimulus to generate insightful interpretations of characters' actions in literature. (HOD)

The evaluation of instructional program effects traditionally operates on pre-to-post, group-level, gain-score models. A critical features scale was developed to track the critical incidents of selected students during a series of alcohol-education classes. The results are preliminary, problematic, but promising. (Author)

Evaluation by educational experts and 210 students of 15-minute videotaped sixth-grade teaching periods conducted by 26 student teachers assessed the relationship between teacher characteristics and student reactions. Characteristics examined were problem-solving ability, social sensitivity, feeling of security, and educational attitude. The…

Using techniques borrowed from ethnography, a participant observer spent four months in one elementary school to examine children's responses to literature as it was expressed in the classroom. (HOD)

The purpose of this study was to examine whether people who differ in behavioral and self-report measures of lateralized seating preferences also differ in hypnotic susceptibility. Only right-handed subjects were used, and the associations between hypnotic susceptibility and seating preference were examined separately for males and females.…

Ability, emotional, personality, and task variables interact to influence the performance of learning disabled children on academic tasks. Analysis of the learning-teaching style that produces optimum student response will help in determining the best teaching method. (CJ)

Regardless of their classification, 54 normal and 11 exceptional junior high school students evaluated themselves most favorably, normal children as a group less favorably, and exceptional children as a group least favorably. These findings raise questions about mainstreaming in its present form. (Author/RL)

The ability of 24 moderately retarded adults to anticipate a signal to initiate discrete movements of varying complexity was investigated in two experiements. The results revealed an interaction between temporal anticipation and response complexity. (Author)

Based on evaluation of an Open University independent study course used in a conventional setting at the University of Essex, this paper focuses on: the relationship of the student's choice of learning strategy with the requirements of the task; the student's ability to adapt his strategy; task restrictions; and the student's view of learning.…

To pursue the question of how women art students felt about their work and about being artists, a study was conducted of students enrolled in seven institutions of higher education. The study also noted the possible differences in career commitment between students attending the professional schools and the universities. (Author/RK)