The success or failure of black children in school has been attributed to positive or negative self-concept, but the construct of self-concept has been misused and misrepresented by educators and researchers. The traditional definition of self-concept as a highly interrelated perception of the self has been defined in perceptual rather than…

THE ADJUSTMENT OF CHILDREN AS MANIFESTED IN THEIR SELF-CONCEPTS AND THEIR CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR WAS INVESTIGATED. IT WAS HYPOTHESIZED THAT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR CHILDREN TO OBSERVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEMSELVES IN SCHOOL WITHIN A POSITIVE FRAME OF REFERENCE WOULD ENABLE THEM (1) TO DEVELOP A MORE POSITIVE SELF-CONCEPT, (2) TO DEVELOP A MORE POSITIVE…

THIS STUDY EXPLORED THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS AND, IN PARTICULAR, TEACHER PERSONALITY SIGNIFICANCE. TO CLARIFY THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVE TEACHING, INFORMATION ON THE NATURE OF SPECIFIC KINDS OF TEACHERS WAS SOUGHT. INTERVIEWS AND UNSTRUCTURED OBSERVATIONS OF INSERVICE TEACHERS WERE CONDUCTED. A STUDY WAS ALSO…

Presents the results of a study that tested students in a research methods and a developmental psychology class on methodological and statistical reasoning at the beginning and the end of the term. Reasoning scores of research methods students improved more than the scores of developmental psychology students. (MJP)