The paper presents data relating to changes in teacher choice of classroom management procedures, the frequency of passive, disruptive, and attending behavior for 20 criterion children over 26 days, and pre-post mean-gain achievement testing results on these children. (Author)

Article stresses the effect of physical environment on a conference's success or failure. Further research into what constitutes the best setting and how to achieve it is urged. More study is also needed of how individuals at conferences interact with each other and with the physical setting. (PD)

Discusses a contingency management program in an inner-city elementary school, whose basic core is a structured system of language learning packages providing guidance for the direct teaching of oral language, integrating reading and writing activities, and correlating language learning with other academic instruction. (VJ)

Article is dedicated to the principle that business and industry can and must overcome some past mistakes in the areas of the recruitment, placement, retention and advancement of minority group people. (Author)

In terms of the criterion measure, the social reinforcement group differed significantly from the teacher expectation and the control group. Differences in mean response gains between Premack and social reinforcement groups approached significance with the greatest changes in client behavior favoring the social reinforcement group. (Author)

Paper presented at Symposium on Research and Utilization of Educational Media for Teaching the Deaf (Lincoln, Nebraska, March, 1971). (CB)

The effect of monetary incentives on dependent-independent and extroversion-introversion behavior of 24 retarded institutionalized adolescents was investigated. (Author)

This article presents the theoretical rationale for behavior modification, principally through its comparison with traditional psychotherapies, and suggests some behavior modification techniques for the classroom management of maladaptive behavior. (Author)

Hypothesizes that beliefs to learning will be considered by the subject to be more easily influenced than those which are intrinsic. Table and bibliography. (RW)