Music study should be construed primarily as an experience of its feeling content. Taught so, it can reach for the inner core of the early adolescent, to pierce that sometimes hard outer surface that protects the vulnerable inner life. Attempts to intellectualize music with young teens are doomed. (Author/SJL)

A survey of 164 college students assessed their aptitudes, performance, outside work commitments as well as their perception of their environment, satisfaction, and affective and somatic complaints. Several casual themes linking environment perceptions, performance, and affective and somatic complaints were apparent. (Author/LC)

The implications that students often minimize study to avoid the implication that they lack ability if they fail is examined. Results indicated that although effort stability contributed little to variations in student affect, it did influence teacher judgments. (Author/GK)

Films can be an important source of information for basic business students but they should be appropriate for the class and be used as a teaching supplement, not as a substitution for any unit. The article lists 11 evaluation points for judging a film's suitability by both the teacher and students. (MF)

A survey of 500 children aged 8 to 14 pointed to an enormous gap between children's stated attitudes toward poetry and their actual interest in poetry, as measured by their recall of lines of poetry. (GT)

Summarizes a seminar discussion on teaching composition skills to elementary school students. (MP)

Establishes the validity of the Picture Potency Formula as a tool to predict the extent to which children will respond to pictures. (FL)

Describes activities used to help students study poems by Seamus Heaney. Includes a transcript of a group discussion of one of the poems; an essay and poems written by a student in response to Heaney's poems; and a commentary on desirable methods for teaching literature to students aged 16 through 19. (GT)

Projects of second-year university students enrolled in French classes are described. Instead of regular classes, projects on similar subjects were grouped and presented to the class as a whole. Student reactions obtained through a questionnaire are also reported. (SW)

Internal locus of control and positive outcome subjects attributed responsibility for their test results to internal factors, while external and negative outcome subjects tended toward external causations. Ability and luck components were rated in accord with the Weiner model classification, but the effort and task components were not. (Author/SJL)

Study results reveal: students in the auto-tutorial (AT) section learned more and gave more positive evaluations of the course than those in the traditionally taught (TT) world civilization course, and that the attitudes toward history of the AT students improved while those of the TT students remained the same. (AYC)

Discussed are self-modification projects in college psychology courses. Findings indicate that, although students respond favorably to projects involving self-control, they tend to report their actions incorrectly when grades are involved. (Author/DB)

Assesses the influence of model consequences on perceived model affect and, conversely, assesses the influence of model affect on perceived model consequences. Also appraises the influence of model consequences and model affect on perceived model attractiveness, perceived model competence, and perceived task attractiveness. (Author/RK)

Describes a revised media writing course (required of all journalism majors) at Texas A&M University. States that it meets "scholarship" and "centrality" issues in nine ways: communication theory, personal skills, critical thinking, writing about writing, thematic organization, coaching writing, critiques and revisions,…

Explores the language learning experiences of a class of adult learners of Chinese in Australia who were all teachers of English as a Second Language or a language other than English. The study examined the learners' response to their learning environment and their response to the target language. (nine references) (Author/CK)