Judgments that favorably set an individual apart from others tend to be made more rapidly, suggesting that the self-concept is both an effective and a cognitive entity. Subjects rated the self-applicability of traits on a 100-point scale. As in other studies using dichotomous judgements, judgement speed increased with increasing self-applicability…

Reported are the experiences of participants in three different teacher training programs in the Teacher Education Laboratory at the University of California at Los Angeles. One program was behavioristic, another humanistic, and the third eclectic. Findings indicate that beginning teacher trainees perceive the teacher role in terms of three…

A group of 3,000 7th through 12th graders were surveyed to investigate their perceptions of how much teachers cared about them and the degree to which they felt teachers urged them to achieve. Of the adolescents surveyed, 39% felt that teachers never or rarely seem to care about them. This is a crucial dimension, since teacher warmth has been…

A total of 1,333 faculty members from four universities judged the administrative effectiveness of their department head (numbering 103). They also described the department head's behavior by responding to 30 behavioral questions. Through a principal components analysis, four factors were extracted that accounted for 73 percent of the variance in…

Intended as a resource for developing individualized education programs (IEPs) for gifted students, the manual lists annual goals and terminal behaviors for cognitive and affective development. Goals and behaviors coded to expedite the IEP process are set forth for four cognitive areas (subtopics in parentheses): independent study (research,…

This curriculum guide states physical education program standards for schools in the Philadelphia School District. The major goal of this program, designed for students from kindergarten to grade nine, is to develop desirable attitudes and practices that contribute to the maintenance of physical fitness. The "key competencies" listed in this guide…

The training package described here is designed to improve the teacher's interpersonal relations skills through better understanding of the nonverbal behavior of students. The product covers an overview of nonverbal communication, how a person relates his/her feelings to others without words, the value of nonverbal communication in the learning…

The exercises in this learning activity package are designed to allow each student to work alone without outside pressure, and with maximum concentration on individual thought. These exercises are not group-oriented, but may be used as a backup to a major group activity in the classroom. The activities are geared to value assessment, value…

This teacher activity package deals with the process of decision making in children. It assumes that fundamental to decision making is an awareness of one's own opportunity to make decisions as well as an understanding of the process itself. It also assumes that children can be helped, by teachers and other influential persons, to see and accept…

The purpose of this publication is to present methods designed to develop a greater awareness of the affective domain and to examine the way children's literature and poetry is used at school and at home. The 12 articles provide information about the following topics: developing an awareness of attitudes, examining approach-avoidance behaviors in…

A project designed to develop a television teacher rating instrument, and to study relationships between ratings of teachers, measures of student personality, and student reports of mood associated with instruction utilized over 2,300 undergraduates: 618 of them described an ideal teacher on an adjectival rating scale and the remainder rated…

This document presents an affective domain curriculum and reviews the behaviorist and humanist learning theories on which it is based. Recognizing the significance of the relationship between positive self concept and ability to learn, the affective curriculum was designed for the continuing development of self concept and interpersonal skills in…

An instrument was constructed to measure changes in teacher attitudes and beliefs resulting from training in the teaching of the Elementary Science Study (ESS) program. The 40-item, Likert type instrument was administered to a group of 22 elementary teachers attending a three-week National Science Foundation summer institute, on the first morning…

Two captioned affective films from the AIT series Inside/Out were tested with 14 intermediate (ages 13 to 15) and 39 elementary (ages 11 and 12) hearing impaired children at the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind. Measures of attention, post-film discussion, student comprehension, and student and teacher opinions were taken to determine the…

For four years research has been conducted on the Concerns-Based Adoption Model. This model proposes a diagnostic/prescriptive process for guiding change in schools with the focus being on the individual teacher and what happens to her/him during the change process. Two important dimensions of the model are Stages of Concern about an Innovation…