What qualities in teachers do student teachers feel are more important than others? Do student teachers agree as to the varying importance of these qualities? This pilot study conducted in Fall semester, 1975 at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale attempted to answer these questions. (Author)

Effectiveness of internal feedback systems on policy is analyzed in terms of a sample case: elimination of segregated dual schools in the South. Findings show that evaluation by policy implementers seems less successful than evaluation by external agents. (Author/AV)

Investigates the properties affecting the time taken to read individual words and to discriminate between words and non-words. (Editor/RK)

Does measurement of intelligence through a concolidated score imply that two or more subjects obtaining the same score are also undergoing the same mental process? Introverts are supposed to opt for accuracy and extraverts for speed. Attempts to investigate the qualitative differences between extraverts and introverts on an intelligence test.…

The major experimental question, does the double-bind produce anxiety, was asked in the context of the double-bind unit, rather than the more complicated double-bind process, i.e., as it affects one person rather than as it affects both parties involved in a mutual interaction. (Author/RK)

Attempts to reevaluate Beall and Panton's MMPI escape scale on what presumably would be a more appropriate escapee sample than that used in previous studies. This would help to determine whether a revision of this escape scale should be undertaken. (Author/RK)

Attempts to discover if there was a significant relationship between the clothing behavior of two different groups of college males (identified as conservative dressers and hippie dressers) and their social-political beliefs. (Author/RK)

Investigates the prediction that the usual superiority of pictures over words for repetitions of the same items would disappear for items that were different instances of repeated categories. (Author/RK)

Attempts to define the relationships between four measures of recall in a two-recall task, namely (a) initial short-term recall (STR), (b) unconditional final free recall (FFR), (c) final free recall conditionalized on an initial successful recall (FFR/STR), and (d) final free recall conditionalized on an unsuccessful recall (FFR/STR). (Author/RK)

Indicates some of the "first faltering steps" being taken in an attempt to describe something of children's understanding of primary mathematics. Suggests that future evaluations of children's performance need to be based on first-hand experience and valid interpretation of classroom practice. (Editor/RK)

Neville Bennett's "Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress" has attracted widespread attention for its major conclusion that formal teaching styles foster greater pupil progress than more informal ones. Examines the adequacy of the research on which this claim is based. (Author/RK)

Details what is known about the training of teachers to cope with children on stimulant-drug regimen. Analyzes the teacher's role in drug therapy and specifies the nature of the knowledge and the type of course work required. Describes training activities designed to equip teachers to be helpful in the education of hyperkinetic children.…

Focuses on one specific kind of information and guidance employed by many adolescent females as a source of information on sexuality, female erotica, and for information on the female role--the female self concept. (Author/RK)

Attempts to determine the extent of smoking in a high school population, to identify the relationship between students' smoking status and conditions contributing to the continuation of smoking among students. (Author/RK)

Does the experience of living in a foreign culture for the period of one year change the adolescent's acceptance of ethnic and racial integration? Attitudes of secondary students at the American School of Sao Paulo were examined to shed light on the question. (Author/RK)