Background: There is a plethora of reviews that summarize much of the evidence base in Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). However, there are criticisms around variability of quality and focus of those reviews, meaning there is little strategic overview of the current state of the field. Further, there are rising concerns as to systemic gaps in…

This article explores the way in which the 'territory' of educational research has been defined and limited, by assumptions about scientific methods of enquiry and objective forms of measurement. (Editor)

An experiment is reported which directly compared the effects of two procedures, recognition and inference, in assessing children's abilities to predict the viewpoint of others, and demonstrated less egocentrism in a recogniton than in an inference condition. (Editor/RK)

The EPI was administered to 136 full-time postgraduate Diploma in Education students. The relationships between personality, choice of method of assessment and achievement in four theory courses were investigated. (Editor)

The research method of stimulated recall generally involves the replay of a tape of a teacher's lesson in order to stimulate a commentary upon the teacher's thought processes at the time. The author considers the advantages and disadvantages of this approach, concluding that it has utility for research in teaching. (Author/SJL)

This study investigated the differences between elementary school pupils' and teachers' perceptions of the actual classroom environment and of discrepancies between preferred and actual environment. Teachers and students preferred more favorable classroom environment than was perceived as being present, and teachers perceived the actual classroom…

After defining "docility" this research considers some factors affecting it, specifically, the effects on Student docility of age and sex, together with the effects of the social structure of the school and of the family. (Author/RK)

This study explored ways in which lecturers prepare and give lectures. Factor analysis yielded six scales for identifying approaches to lecturing, and subsequent cluster analysis yielded five distinctive types of lecturer's styles. The styles were associated significantly with subject area, marginally with status, but not with years of experience.…

Describes a field study of kindergarteners which found 1,006 pupils conserved identity up to 8 months, and 693 pupils conserved identity and equivalence. Follow-up studies showed no relationship between kindergarten conservation abilities and grade 1 math skills, although grade 6 math performance correlated significantly with kindergarten…

Discusses methodology and results of a study which uses the distinction between deep-level and surface-level approach, to examine the way first-year psychology students tackle studying of a text, and extent to which these study strategies are related to student views on learning conceptions and the quality of learning outcome. (MBR)