Ethnographic study of a suburban Jewish afternoon school suggests that students' failure to meet school behavior and learning standards occurred because they did not value or understand the rewards made available to them through the school and because their means of achieving status mobility had shifted away from the Jewish school. (Author/GC)

Health contracting is a useful structure to guide and facilitate lifestyle and behavior changes and to promote self-control and responsibility. An investigation of college students' attempts to change health behaviors through contracting is reported. Health instruction and contracts appear to affect, and to have some lasting effects on, students'…

Describes how student teachers can be made aware of the varying writing behaviors they may find in their classrooms. (AEA)

Identified the relationships of race and socioeconomic status (SES) to observed classroom behavior, academic achievement, and special education referral. Systematically selected and observed 109 fourth-grade Anglo, Black, and Hispanic boys from varying SES backgrounds, for 12 behaviors. Multivariate analyses found no race-related differences in…

A survey to determine medical student perceptions of an honor code and the attitudes of medical students toward personal adherence to the provisions of an honor code at the University of Alabama School of Medicine is presented. Support was compromised by the reluctance of students to report suspected violations. (MLW)

To push curricular reform and higher standards of school performance without working on youth isolation from the workplace and from important roles in the community is seen as self-defeating. The place to begin working on these problems is among the parents, teachers, principals, and students of individual schools. (MLW)

Describes the Teachable Pupil Survey, developed to measure teachers' perceptions of attributes that characterize teachable pupils. Teachers were asked their perceptions of "idealized teachable" pupils and to identify "teachable" attributes from an adjective checklist. The major dimensions found were labeled cognitive-motivational behaviors,…

The disciplinary policy at Chapelle Elementary School in Ypsilanti (Michigan), developed with staff participation, classifies some student behavior as "unacceptable" or "inappropriate." Either behavior requires the teacher to fill out a pink slip and send it with the student to the principal's office, but only unacceptable…

This paper focuses on two issues: (1) whether bilingual education programs are the only way to satisfy the Supreme Court decision in Lau v. Nichols and (2) whether research findings clearly indicate that the bilingual approach is the best way to educate language-minority children. (CT)

In a teacher workshop on classroom management, the problem of discipline and the importance of students becoming more responsible were stressed. There was shown to be a strong interdependence between the process of teacher self-assessment and the development of the students' self-concept. (JN)

Data from 87 high school students indicated significant differences between high and low psychoticism scorers on teacher appraisal, alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, marijuana smoking, and sex of student; no significant differences were found between high and low psychoticism scorers on television viewing and residence with one or both…

The authors briefly describe their research on teaching cooperative classroom behavior to students; outline the essential components of a curricular activity designed to foster cooperative behavior; and explain how teachers can promote in their students both the skills and the affective components of cooperation. (SJL)

This research was aimed at adapting the Utah State University Classroom Management Program for use in elementary mainstreaming classrooms and evaluating the program's effectiveness in changing teacher and pupil behavior. The program appears to be powerful in changing teacher behavior and an effective classroom management training tool. (Author/AL)

College students (N=46) enrolled in biology or physical science courses for nonscience majors were studied to determine the correlation of their test scores with test anxiety, sex, grade point average, and self-concept. (PB)

A model is presented for a school health program which integrates the health-related functions within the education, service, and environmental components of a school system. The model uses nurses as the administrators of the school health program. Goals of the program, nursing intervention, and applications of the model are discussed. (JN)