This study investigates the effect of introducing an environmental education (EE) in three classrooms (C1, C2, C3) using three different pedagogy methods and if student's personalities determine how the information is perceived. A teacher-focused classroom (C1), a student-focused classroom (C2), and a third classroom used labs and hands-on…

Teaching students with behavioural problems is a challenge for many teachers but other teachers are able to bring out the best in these students. Much research has been done to find out what differentiates expert teachers from their less skilled colleagues. Recent evidence points to personality as an underlying core factor influencing teacher…

The central dimension of human personality is extroversion and introversion, the present study is therefore focussed on the relationship between creativity and extraversion and introversion personality traits. A teacher can identify extrovertism and introvertism among the students easily on the basis of their behaviour and habits. Teacher can also…

A device to organize more objectively the behavior of students.'' (Editor)

THE EFFECT OF PERSONAL REJECTION IN ELICITING CONFORMITY WAS STUDIED TO DISCOVER WHETHER THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOWERED SELF-ESTEEM AND THE MOTIVATION TO INGRATIATE ONESELF AFFECT A STUDENT'S RECEPTIVITY TO THE INFLUENCES OF THE SCHOOL. THE TWO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS INVESTIGATED WERE--(1) IS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO EXPERIENCES REJECTION IN AN INITIALLY…

Reviews three prominent methods for evaluating suicidal risk in college students. Considers methods which focus on identifying personality characteristics of suicidal students; developing techniques to measure suicidal risk; and analyzing the behavior of suicidal college students. Stresses need for further educational efforts to increase awareness…

This study aims to explore the utility of the resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality prototypes in discriminating adolescents with respect to their academic and social functioning and success. One-hundred and twelve male and 95 female Italian adolescents (mean age = 17 years old) participated in the study and filled out a…

The purpose of this essay is not to answer why the educational upheaval of the late 1960's came and went so quickly, but to establish two opposite models of student attitudes and behavior in order to identify students within these two extremes. (Author/RK)

Focuses on the personality of the activist, and summarizes the results from several major studies, and some explanatory concepts deriving from these findings are discussed in an effort to provide an accurate, composite description of the young people who emerged as activists in the 1960's." (PR)

This project investigated the relationship of classroom behavior to students' personality traits, students' perceptions of teachers' traits, teachers' self-described traits, and the discrepancies between students' preferences for teacher traits and their observation of them. Teachers were graduate assistants conducting discussion sections in…

After attending a lecture on misattribution in social reasoning, teachers were shown videotapes of children, whom they knew were acting out role of good and bad pupils. When asked to assess the children's real personalities and disregard the acted-out roles, the teachers still rated the "good" and "bad" pupils differently.…

Describes a small scale study aimed at taking an objective, in-depth look at the personality and behavioral characteristics of a small group of children excluded from school, by comparing them with other children in their peer group, who had not been excluded. (Editor)

This study examines personality differences and similarities between student groups in protest activities by comparing activists to student leaders and random students. Results indicate many similarities in personality dimensions but protesters are more adventurous, autocratic and individualistic. They are also more spontaneous and irresponsible.…

Type A behavior of freshmen medical students was assessed at the beginning and at the end of the school year. Type A behavior was also examined in relation to measures of academic achievement. It was hypothesized that Type A behavior would increase over the course of the first year. (MLW)

A study investigated whether the personality construct of repression-sensitization could identify which college students would or would not practice regular examinations for breast, cervical, or testicular cancer. Although knowledge of cancer increased after the lecture, no change was found in the frequency of breast self-examination while…