Teacher's instructional strategy was a factor in determining student's classroom status. Three classrooms using different types of instructional strategies were studied. Differences existed in acquired academic and social status of pupils who participated and were attended to; cognitive level of pupil reponses attended to by classmates; and…

Presents a history of the use of national languages as the medium of instruction in math and science education in Sri Lanka. Concludes that the transition from English to the national languages as the medium of instruction helped destroy class barriers. (Author/DB)

Shifting to results-based accountability is a difficult stage in reforming family and children's services. Heretofore, these services have been more concerned with the number of clients seen or papers processed than in their clients' quality of life. This document should help communities find the data they need to measure qualitative outcomes. It…

Article written two years ago for the New York Times" by a young Polish American, a member of a Baltimore community organization, and a representative from the First District on the Baltimore City Council. (JM)

Study results indicate that relationship between classroom structure and mental health reported by Glidewell et al. (1966) does not always exist in the nongraded classroom. Factors influencing classroom social structure include: (1) great chronological age difference within some level; (2) great variability of developmental level; and (3) changing…

The adolescent behavior traditions are normal functioning of their society and academic achievement reward structures. It is suggested that a combination of material inducements with a reward structure emphasizing peer group attainment can provide an effective strategy for motivating lower-class adolescents. (Author/DB)

Reports results of a study comparing teacher status in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Ireland. Notes that Irish teachers are more satisfied with occupational prestige and with teaching as a career, care more about professional status, and have greater faith that education can raise occupational status. (SB)

Reviews literature on child abuse, wife beating, and incest, and examines social and psychological explanations of these problems. Argues that family violence must be considered in the context of power relations and sex and age inequalities. Suggests that research on family violence requires both qualitative, theoretical analysis and empirical…

Examined the relationship between career status aspirations and strength of career orientation. Male (N=171) and female (N=192) 12th graders completed a Career Orientation Inventory and reported their most preferred occupational aspiration. Results indicated students with higher status professional aspirations manifested stronger career…

Interdependent tasks and role play were implemented as treatment conditions in three elementary classrooms to affect peer nominations of the subjects. Third to fifth grade students (N-142) received 1/2 hour per day of treatment or a control condition for two weeks. One week following treatment, interdependent tasks were effective. (Author/HLM)

Analyzed items from the 1972-1980 cumulative National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey to examine whether father's occupation, educational attainment, and respondent's occupation affect various attitudes and behaviors. Findings did not demonstrate effects of intergenerational occupational mobility, occupational return on investment,…

Path analytic techniques examined relations between children's subjective school outcomes and measures of their family and school learning environments. A home interview assessed parents' orientations to education and children's perceptions of schools were obtained. Children's perceptions have links with school-related outcomes even when family…

Work values of groups of Maryland high school seniors were measured using the Maryland work Value Inventory, to find if students from different backgrounds would have different work values. It was found that categorizing students on the basis of how they classified their parents' occupations did produce different work value profiles. (MF)

Data in Yarworth and Gauthier's article on student self- concept and participation in school activities (EJ 189 606) were reanalyzed by Walsh and Winne (TM 505 375). Yarworth and Gauthier's criticism of the reanalysis (TM 505 376) is answered. (GDC)

Studies of the perception of academic prestige in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom are examined. Reviewing the arts, science, and engineering, the studies consider faculty perceptions of how the public and students see the faculty's status and also makes comparisons with government and other professional occupations. (MSE)