The historical change in educational status projections of Georgia rural youth was examined from 1966-1972. Used as the sampling unit, counties were: (1) rural, (2) characterized by low socioeconomic status, and (3) representative of all state regions. All schools in each county with a 10th grade class were used, although not necessarily the same…

Active and passive sentences were presented with probable and improbable semantic content to 100 first graders and 100 kindergartners. "Irreversible" sentences were considered improbable. In a design employing syntax, probability, grade, and sex as factors, probability and syntax were found significant both as main effects and in their…

A study was conducted to determine how well gifted students in grades 4-6 should be reading and whether traditional reading expectancy formulas are useful in predicting reading achievement of gifted students in the upper elementary grades. The total reading scores on the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (Form Q2) for 624 fourth and sixth graders…

Purposes of this literature review on the Mexcian American child were to explore the self-concept; cultural marginality, emphasizing resulting conflict and other effects; the occurrence and effects of stereotyping; and the results of studies undertaken to measure self-concept. Findings included that (1) the manner in which a person is dealt with…

From 1968 to 1969 the EPRC focused on: staff development, definition of a specific research program, and development of methods to deal with educational policy issues in the context of longrange futures. The research program of the center is organized around educational futures and policy planning. Specific methods include Delphi techniques, goal…

It was hypothesized that subjects who liked a source of potential harm would estimate the probability of receiving harm mediated by him as lower than would subjects who disliked the source. To test the hypothesis, subjects were asked to estimate the probability that a liked or disliked confederate would deliver an electric shock on each of 10…

Presented are six lectures in special education and rehabilitation given in 1971 at the University of Southern California. Dr. James Gallagher considers accountability, program planning, and program evaluation by means of a systems model. Suggested are the development of measurable educational objectives in special education. Dr. Edgar Lowell…

Male and female subjects read descriptions of either a male or a female stimulus person performing well in an emergency situation which had been previously shown to be more masculine than feminine. Subjects then allocated rewards, and evaluated performance, effort, and ability of the stimulus person. On the basis of equity theory it was assumed…

The responses of the entering full-time freshmen at UTK are compared with those of the norm group for public universities with "low selectivity" on the descriptive, attitudinal, and expectancy items of the American Council on Education's annual freshman survey. Two additional comparisons were made. One was with the responses from the…

The "enrichment" and the "instruction" orientations are compared with respect to views on readiness, expectations for children, the "whole child" concept, and the concept of teacher role. (Author/MLF)

Findings indicate that societal changes in the opportunity structure have had some limited impact on black men, but have not yet materially affected women. The key component in understanding mobility orientations is level of aspiration, a variable closely related to sex-race characteristics. (Author/AM)

Notes that the art of human relations cannot be acquired unless children are allowed the opportunity to humanly relate, and that this cannot be accomplished when the school day is given over to assignments. Children should not be conscious of adult expectancy--a source of self-consciousness and waste. (Author/AM)

Because of its complex, multidimensional causes, unemployment is unlikely to be reduced significantly as a result of improved employability achieved through career education. (Author)

An exploration of current U.S. societal values and their antecedents, and the effect of these values on adult attitudes towards children. (BRT)

Two experiments are described in which reaction times for understanding target sentences or phrases in terms of a preceding context were measured. It is argued that both experiments can be accounted for in terms of contextually generated expectations. (Author/RM)