Investigated emotional stressors experienced by juvenile offenders confined within the secure institutional facilities of a state youth services agency, to determine if emotional stressors varied with restrictiveness of program security and to categorize nature of the stress experienced by adolescent offenders participating in peer counseling…

Significant differences in attitudes toward perpetrators and victims of child sexual abuse were found among child welfare social workers, police officers, district attorneys, public defenders, and judges (N=132). In particular, professional groups differed in their beliefs about victim credibility and punishment of offenders. (JW)

Compares schools in Maine with those in the United Kingdom. Addresses areas such as reading, writing, creative arts, mathematics, music, mainstreaming, counseling, practice teaching, and daily timetables. (BJD)

Argues that the standards for formulating comprehension questions do not take into account the differences between written and spoken language. Introduces mutuality-enhancing devices as a way to improve oral comprehension questioning. (FL)

Uses preliminary data from a longitudinal study of high school students to discuss differences between public and private schools. Addresses differences in school characteristics, student achievement and factors influencing it, school segregation, and tuition issues. (MK)

Peer reviewers (N=70) of a psychodynamic, behavioral, or eclectic theoretical orientation evaluated one of three clinical treatment reports. Psychodynamic reviewers rated patients as more disturbed and in need of psychotherapy, and they were consistently more positive in their ratings of treatment. (Author)

Identifies differences between engineering students at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison in good academic standing at the end of the first year who persisted in engineering, and those in good standing who transferred to another college. (CS)

A brief reveiw of recent literature in France on bilingualism, or more properly, diglossia. In the context of a bi- or pluri-linguistic situation, dialectology, linguistic distribution of both speakers and systems, official and regional languages, and the problem of belonging to a linguistic community and ethnic identification are discussed. (AMH)

Identifies possible similarities in an array of 16 instructional models available to teachers and teacher educators and reveals three large categories of models. Analysis of factor scores on 33 instructional parameters suggests which characteristics educators attend to in perceiving models, e.g., affective orientations, application emphases,…

This paper describes two simple, informal checklists that can be used to assess the range of experiences and activities of preschool children. Data from use of the checklists with a large sample of 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children are provided. (Author/DB)

The advantages and disadvantages of on-job training and institutional training are listed for use in deciding which is the more appropriate setting or what is the appropriate mix of both settings for occupational training programs. (MF)

Attempts are made to account for the failure of generalized planning models for higher education. The reasons offered by survey research are judged to be inadequate. New foundations are laid for the construction and use of planning models, relying heavily on the notion of diverse institutional theories that guide decision making. (Author/JMD)

A survey of Australian academics at four types of higher education institutions found that while there is a high degree of homogeneity, academics at pre-1987 universities are better qualified, have appreciably better publication records, spend more time on research and writing, and show more interest in research than academics in post-1987…

Examined the ability of students at different achievement levels to understand worksheet directions and accurately identify the reasons for completing worksheets. The cognitive processes that students employed when they read directions were also examined. (PCB)

Although the socioeconomic well-being of all U.S. mining-dependent counties was slightly above the national average in 1990, disaggregation reveals substantial effects of region and mining subsector. In particular, southern and Great Lakes coal-mining counties had significantly lower high school graduation rates and higher poverty and unemployment…