Reports a study designed to measure the effectiveness of teaching and learning major economic concepts and concept clusters in high school. Includes findings on student attitudes toward the subject of economics and toward economic issues. (BSR)

Allowed undergraduate students (N=70) to interact for 44 minutes with ELIZA, a computer simulation of psychotherapy, and compared their responses during the first and second halves of the session. Results showed a significant increase in responses in roughly half of the categories. (LLL)

Argues that most anthologies of poetry are discouraging to children and suggests better ways of getting them involved with verse. (HOD)

Evidence suggests that teacher self-concept has an effect upon the development of student self-concept in two of the four dimensions tested. (DMT)

Employing Amitai Etzioni's compliance theory as a theoretical model, this study evaluates application of Etzioni's theory to the influence of public schools on juvenile delinquency, suggesting that the schools exercise sufficient coercive power to evoke alienative involvement among their students and an increasing probability of student…

Research indicates that computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a great motivator of learning for the student (e.g., Gatlin-Watts, Arn, & Kordsmeier, 1998). However, the author's experience communicating with students through the Web indicates very divided student reactions to this manner of communication. In view of a relative lack of literature…

The purpose of this study was to identify the factorial composition of 55 characteristics of the subjects. These characteristics were assessed by a self-report inventory containing 55 items pertaining to drug use and alleged related areas of drug use. (Author)

The author discusses a visit Saul Bellow paid to his class on the contemporary American novel. (MM)

Authors feel that the teacher has certain qualities similar to those of an actor and once understood can contribute toward conscious and deliberate activities, including creative and unique responses. (Authors)