Transitional situations, such as those experienced by work study students, may create cognitive difficulties by requiring people to simultaneously use both a learning and a use logic. To examine this phenomenon, a problem solving task (electrical schemata of a washing machine) was administered to 43 full time students and 51 work study students…

The Career and Life Management Program was prescribed within the Secondary Education in Alberta policy statement as a core course for senior high school students to provide students with opportunities to develop and practice communicating and thinking skills in situations that will help them to build confidence in their ability to cope with the…

Perry's theory of intellectual and ethical development of college students is briefly reviewed. This theory was based on work with Harvard University students, and addresses dualism, multiplicity, and relativism. In the first stage, a student sees the world in right-wrong, black-white terms, with no room in the thinking process for conditional or…

Follow Through is an early childhood program (kindergarten through third grade) established in 1967. The intent of the program is to sustain and expand on the gains made by children in Head Start or similar preschool programs. It is an educational program with a strong emphasis on community and parental involvement, as well as comprehensive…

Most college students are seeking a college education to increase their money-making skills. In turn, they want to have money to buy better leisure activities. For this reason, leisure counseling should be included in college career counseling services. From a psychological perspective, leisure facilitates identification with various concepts,…

A study was conducted to investigate the relationship between the intellectual maturity of college students and evidence of rhetorical maturity in their writing--specifically, why some students write better than others, since general language abilities cannot account for all the differences between good and poor writing. By focusing on college…

A school district's 15 years of involvement with the computer are recounted in this paper, from the first computer literacy course to the present slackening of interest in the subject. The conclusion, however, is that computer technology will not be shelved, but will continue to change the way society lives and maximize student development. As an…

In this article author explored our freedoms and with hypothetical cases illustrated how the freedoms can be granted or denied based on an interpretation of the Bill of Rights. (Author/RK)

In order to help students develop positive attitudes toward handicapped children the author discussed a program designed to provide students with deeper understandings of the nature of physical limitations. (Author/RK)

Article discussed the goals of art education and provided a curriculum guide offering the range of purposes and modes which can well serve the dabbler, searcher, coper, and those few who do go on to work toward becoming expert. (Author/RK)

Discusses the value of elementary science in promoting both cognitive and affective growth in children. (JR)

The general purpose of this project was to examine the process of becoming a scientist, from elementary school through four years of post-college work. Seven hundred male students in the Boston area, from 5 different grade levels (grades 5, 8, 11, 14, and 16), were studied for 5 years, thus covering a 16 year developmental span. Data collection…

This annotated bibliography was developed by students as part of their participation in a class on student activities administration. Although not designed as a scientific source for the serious researcher, it is intended to provide the reader with a variety of selected articles coded by general focus. Some areas included are: college environment…

Although the majority of our children acquire functional literacy in all the basic skills; become functional, law-abiding, and constructive adults; and become employable, a large number do not. Children are reared in environments that teach three life views--that the objective of life is to work hard, sacrifice the joys of the moment, and indulge…

Author charted the history of the experiment, known as Countesthorpe College, Leicestershire, and described the school as it is working today. (Editor/RK)