Sexual activity in the Meade Heights student community was investigated. It was found that the living facilities had fostered greater permissiveness in sexual behavior, evidenced by more casual sleeping arrangements, more extensive petting and foreplay and more relaxed attitudes. (Author/CG)

Tests Reiss' hypothesis that among conservatives those of higher social status are less permissive than those of lower status while among liberals the relationship is in the opposite direction. Both a chi-square test and a sign test were applied to the data; neither test confirmed Reiss' hypothesis. An extraordinarily strong relationship between…

Studied were 486 single females aged 13-20 attending ten birth control centers. In this liberal sample, high self-esteem subjects were accepting of premarital intercourse with affection, were more willing to take sexual initiative, and felt less guilt. Those endorsing sexual abstinence had lower self-esteem. (Editor/SJL)

Attempts to determine if permissiveness has resulted in campus unrest and other problems facing higher education. (DS)

This article presents reliability and validity evidence on the Anti-Social Activities Attitude Scale. The scale is not intended to predict individual behavior but to assess the moral climate within a population as supportive or restrictive of antisocial acts. The scale itself is included. (SJL)

TO INVESTIGATE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL CLIMATE AND LEARNING, RANDOM SAMPLES OF STUDENTS IN 49 TWELFTH GRADE PHYSICS CLASSES FROM ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WERE GIVEN A CLASSROOM CLIMATE QUESTIONNAIRE WHICH WAS CORRELATED WITH THE TEST ON UNDERSTANDING SCIENCE, A PHYSICS ACHIEVEMENT TEST, AND THE SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL FOR SCIENCE…

Thirty teenage exchange students from Denmark and the United States were interviewed concerning the differences they perceived in the two cultures. Salient differences were cited in the domains of family rules, education and schools, use of alcohol, romantic relationships and sexuality, communication and friendships, ethnic differences and…

The purpose of this study was to gather information from secondary school students, their teachers and parents concerning their perceptions of school and education. The study was a replication of similar studies carried out in North York in 1971-72 and 1976-77, and was intended to provide data regarding current perceptions of school as well as to…

The relationships that exist between written compositions of fourth-grade students and various teacher influences were investigated in this study. Relationships examined were those between the student's achievements in composition and (1) his teacher's writing ability, (2) his perception of other students' writing, his classroom, his assignments,…

Data analysis and coding of responses to a questionnaire survey of secondary school students, their teachers, and parents concerning perceptions of school and education provide the material for this report. Students and parents were randomly selected by two methods from eight secondary schools in Ontario, Canada. All staff members and…

A teacher in a junior high school outside San Francisco recounts his attempts to introduce unconventional subject matter, methods of teaching, and classroom procedure over several years. Starting out with the belief that children can learn better if they have freedom to explore areas that interest them and if they are free from petty school…

An experimental program of teaching modules or packets--Orientation, Reading, and Language--was designed to improve the communicative skills of 10th graders in vocational-technical schools. The modules consisted of "Student Exercises" requiring student involvement and thinking and a "Teacher's Manual" with ideas for presenting the materials in a…