One of 52 theoretical papers on school crime and its relation to poverty, this chapter discusses the role of mass media in school crime. Media culture--the knowledge, techniques, and assumptions used by people who construct media messages--is shown to contribute to public definitions of and beliefs about the nature of "youth." It is suggested that…

Results of a survey aimed at determining the role and function of department heads at eight U.S. colleges and universities are presented. Two colleges were selected for each of four categories of institutions: service academies, military colleges, former military colleges and nonmilitary colleges. Data are provided on: departmental emphasis,…

A battery of seven psychomotor/perceptual tests was administered to two samples of Air Force personnel: officer trainees slated to attend undergraduate navigator training, and enlisted airmen in 30 different career fields. The objective was to determine the validity of the battery for the prediction of success in technical training courses. The…

Provided is a collection of presentations from a conference for ophthalmologists, optometrists, and educators meeting to exchange their concerns and share knowledge on various types of sensory handicaps of deaf blind children. The conference is seen as an introduction to the needs of deaf blind children and to the importance of stating diagnostic…

This study tested the hypothesis that children with weaker speech ability have greater difficulties in perception, powers of reasoning and spatial orientation than children with better speech ability, and assessed the value of Apgar scores as a predictive measure of later linguistic disorders. Subjects were 100 children born in 1970 who attended…

This paper begins by reviewing the literature on social perceptions and attitudes in terms of the black self-concept. Issues discussed here are culture conditioning and marginality, self-concept, social perception and attitudes, interrelationships between attitudes and perceptions, and the influence of cultural values and beliefs. Problems and…

A teacher self-report instrument, the Learning Climate Inventory (LCI), was used to gather teacher perceptions about their administrators, peers, and teaching job. An observational checklist was used on the same large sample. Data were gathered from 700 classrooms and 867 teachers in 30 schools in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth,…

This series of colored, illustrated alphabet cards contains all the letters of the Spanish alphabet with illustrations to show their sounds. On the reverse of each card, or series of related cards, is a short story, along with some activities and games designed to reinforce the sound of the letter. The material is intended to develop language…

To explore methods of visual communication as a supplement to bilingual education, 200 white male subjects were selected from a public school system in South Florida (100 from the first grade and 100 from the eighth grade) and were allowed to create visual statements from a standardized set of photos. Using primarily Latent Partition Analysis, the…

The conference report on cooperative vocational education contains four main sections. The first, background papers, contains three papers: Education in a Changing Society, Carl H. Madden; A Prospectus for Cooperative Vocational Education, William F. Pierce; and Critical Issues in Cooperative Vocational Education, Robert M. Worthington. The second…

An individuals ability to read is heavily influenced by the style in which he perceives letters and words. A study investigated the effect of the following two elements of perception: (1) field independence--the degree to which the subject is able to distinguish symbols and characters despite the complexity of the background; and (2)…

This is the sixth in a series of technical research reports by the Harvard Project Zero which study artistic creation and comprehension as a means toward better art education. (See related documents SO 008 705 to 008 709.) This paper examines the ways in which music can refer in various ways to itself or to extramusical things. It outlines the…

The set of five self-training modules was developed as a companion document to the Institute on Rehabilitation Services study on rehabilitation of disabled public assistance recipients. The training sessions were designed primarily for use by teams working together in this priority area, especially at the level of the counselor/social worker…

The document is the fifth of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. The two lessons included in the module are designed to aid inservice teachers in the identification and understanding of the value of cooperative relationships within the school and the community and the potential contributions…

This bulletin is published annually in the interest of children with specific language disabilities, learning disabilities, or dyslexia. Articles in this issue deal with "A Neurological Overview of Specific Disability for the Non-Neurologist,""The Evolution of Human Capacity for Language,""A Salute to Anna…