The Standard Behavior Chart is a precision teaching tool used to provide special education students with an individualized program and to measure results of teaching efforts. (MC)

Describes different ways in which curriculum development has taken place and suggests future possibilities for each of the options. Defines basic terms and examines the teacher's function in curriculum development. (Editor)

Two special classes, each containing eight educable mentally retarded students, 9 and 10 years of age, respectively, played a group discussion game twice a week for 3 consecutive weeks in which the teachers presented a discussion topic and reinforced specified good discussion behaviors with high points. (MC)

The withholding of social reinforcement for nonspeaking succeeded in reinstating speech in a 9-year-old secetively mute girl attending a remedial class. (DB)

Behavior modification offers some procedures and new areas of research that may be applicable to open classrooms. More important is the possibility of merging the technology of behavior modification with the humanistic concerns of open education. (Author)

The purpose of this study was to see if self-concept and school behavior of problem junior high school students could be changed by participation in a teacher helper program in an elementary school. Self-concept ratings of the experimental students significantly increased while control group members did not change. Neither group changed…

Results of this study indicate that behavior-modification learning techniques, as used in this study, facilitate auditory recognition in culturally deprived children. (Authors)

Assertion training is a method for directly shaping assertive responses and helps students develop social relationships. (Author/RK)

This present investigation attempted to assess the effects of a group counseling approach on students of low self-esteem. The results reported by the BRF indicate that by roleplaying typical conflict situations, children learned to cope better with themselves and their environment. (Author)

Considers the philosophy underlying learning and needs in adult education. (RK)

It was determined in this project that children are capable of learning the basic skills of behavior identification and behavior modification. Counselors can help children solve seemingly complex problems by breaking the problems down into simple behaviors that can be worked on one by one, providing children with an opportunity to determine what…

This project was undertaken to train teachers in more effective contingency management by extending the amount and kind of training. (Author)

Presented in modified form at the Annual Meeting of the American Neurosurgical Society, Ojai, California, March 26, 1970. (VM)