Studied the effects of eighth grade students' cognitive, motivational, personality, and classroom interaction characteristics on their academic achievement, attitudes toward science, and socio-metric measures. Concluded that a specified combination of student traits and teacher attention could lead to different unintential consequences in science…

Describes a strategy approach to engineering education which stresses student involvement in teaching-learning processes. Includes the learning continuum for use by teachers reviewing their dominant teaching methods. (CC)

Author looks at behavioral objectives in terms of how well they solve classic educational probelms. There are problems of individual differences, problems of failure, problems of content and process, problems of goals, and problems of human beings in institutional settings. (Author/CB)

Results revealed a disordinal interaction such that while the teacher-centered mode optimized learning for high-anxious students, the student-centered approach resulted in superior exam performance for low-anxious students. (Authors)

Ohio reports success with a flexible pattern of individualized programs designed to provide help at a time it is needed. (Editor)

Author's purpose is to describe the nature and capabilities of the computer as an instructional device and to suggest an approach by which the potential of the computer might be evaluated. (Author/MB)

Author discusses the goals of open classroom" teaching, notes the contrast between traditional teaching methods and those of open education, while suggesting that those who believe in the new techniques start demonstrating to the public that chaos or abdication of the school's responsibility will not result. (PD)

Responds to McNeil's proposal for assessing teacher competency, arguing that the technique (1) is unrepresentative of a teacher's behavior, (2) uses inappropriate statistical techniques, and (3) is punative rather than diagnostic. (VJ)