This study was an attempt to shed further light upon the general issue of student and teacher attitudes and beliefs by developing an instrument constructed upon an independently conceived two-dimensional model of educational opinions. (Author/RK)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether significant differences exist in the measured values of elementary school children in grades four, five, and six in relationship to the variables of sex, grade, parochial school and public school students, and socioeconomic level as measured by the Social Values Inventory (SVI). (Author)

Purpose of the study was to determine if primary school children, when exposed to verbal and pictorial descriptions of potentially reinforcing stimuli, could accurately differentiate between the reinforcement potency of these stimuli. (Authors)

Purpose of the study was to learn to what extent children made discriminations about teachers on a team. (Authors)

Does the experience of living in a foreign culture for the period of one year change the adolescent's acceptance of ethnic and racial integration? Attitudes of secondary students at the American School of Sao Paulo were examined to shed light on the question. (Author/RK)

Collects comparative and descriptive data on adolescent attitudes on homosexuality and attempts to show that self-concept, and body self-image as one major aspect of self-concept, are significant correlates of an adolescent's attitude toward homosexuality. (Author/RK)

Explores the attitudes of inner-city, ninth-grade male students and the relationship of these attitudes to intended choice of educational program in the tenth grade. Ninth grade is an important time in career development since the tenth grade is the point where vocational and college programs begin. (Author/RK)

Do junior high school students agree on the characteristics of competent teachers? This broad question was divided into three areas--academic characteristics, personality, and physical characteristics--and asked of junior high school students. (Editor)

Project "Freestyle" involved the development of prototypical television and print materials intended to combat sex-role stereotyping in career-related attitudes of nine to twelve-year-old children. In the first 16 months of the project an assessment was made of the reactions to three pilot shows among students, teachers, administrators,…

The Appalachia Educational Laboratory's (AEL) Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Program was a 3-year project designed to develop a community-based alternative career education program for high school seniors. Internal summative evaluation activities consisted of collecting and analyzing preliminary data, establishing necessary evaluation…

Development and use of instruments and procedures to measure affective aspects of educational programs are described. The document is part of a final report of a project to humanize education by helping schools identify affective priorities and measurement needs. The document is presented in three sections. Section I describes measures developed…