The Judicial Evaluation Method (JEM) is useful for aiding decision-making bodies to formulate policies. Broad public participation in complex issues is provided by JEM. (The conceptualization, policy formulation stages, and participant roles are identified; and the model is applied in two case studies). (MH)

Describes preparation and implementation of a data analysis and card-sorting activity to help junior high and high school students use categories on a continuum to determine the power, status, and roles of men and women in India. (CK)

Discusses how reading literature should be taught in cultures different from the United States as well as in the United States. (Author/RK)

Tested the hypothesis that a high level of self-disclosure is indicative of psychological adjustment and self-actualization. The self-disclosure scale, Social Avoidance and Distress, Fear of Negative Evaluation, Alienation and Repression-Sensitization scales were administered to 60 introductory psychology students. (Editor/RK)

Attempts to 1) summarize the data of "Catholic Schools in a Declining Church" relative to the moral support for the schools which exists among the Catholic population; 2) share some personal reflections on action items which this data suggests; and 3) summarize the recommendations of a study group of Catholic educators who met recently…

Discusses the impact of school desegregation and cross-district bussing upon white flight to the suburban school districts of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, in response to a 1970 court-ordered desegregation plan. (Author/DB)

Little published research has been conducted to date on the use of talk by teachers and children in primary schools. Describes an attempt to explore discourse in junior and middle school classrooms using interaction analysis and intuitive contextual analysis to examine interactions between teachers and children in a variety of learning situations.…

A research study analyzed variables contributing to current ratings of graduate institutions. Findings show these variables in order of importance: extensive library holdings, economic resources, and faculty-student ratio. Private and southern institutions achieve less recognition in proportion to resources than do others. (AV)

James Coleman's theory of high school leading crowd is tested. Changes over the school year are measured for students at Newlawn High, a suburban, working-class school, using data from Coleman's "Adolescent Society" study. (Editor)

Attempts to evaluate several sources of information found in students' cumulative folders on teachers' expectancy sets. Types of information included for evaluation consisted of the child's degree of attractiveness, ability, sex, and family background. (Author/RK)

Within the International Baccalaureate syllabus framework candidates for the diploma must have instruction in some form of art or craft, so-called "creative or aesthetic activity". Examines the implications of this syllabus in terms of student's interests and creative development. (Author/RK)

Examines the system of relative markers in early African American English as documented in the Ex-Slave Recordings. Found a higher incidence of zero marking in adverbial than in nonadverbial relatives. The lack of "wh"-relatives found, as well as this frequency of zero subject relatives, is interpreted as evidence that African American…

Defines action research in terms of science education, delineates the process, provides the rationale for research into practice, and gives an example of putting this process into action. Includes some tips for data collection and analysis. (DDR)

Provides an example that focuses on temperature and illustrates how in-depth study can meet multiple content standards for middle school science and mathematics in the subjects of measurement and data analysis. (DDR)

Explores preferences for different types of moral arguments when thinking about moral dilemmas concerning lesbian and gay issues. Presents data collected from student questionnaires (n=545) at British universities. Shows that respondents do not apply moral reasoning consistently and do not favor human rights reasoning when thinking about…