The Minnesota Gifted Education Master's Program (MGEMP) was designed to provide practicum experience, leadership training for program implementation, and teaching techniques for achieving and underachieving gifted students. To evaluate the second summer of this four-year program, the twenty-five participants were administered two cognitive tests…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 23 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: relationships among attitudes, intelligence, and reading achievement; the purposes and processes of reading as described by elementary school children; evaluating…

This paper empirically examines one aspect of Basil Bernstein's sociolinguistic account of educational failure, a code thesis wherein a restricted code is defined as giving access only to "particularistic" meanings and an elaborated code is defined as giving access also to "universalistic" meanings. According to Bernstein,…

Four earlier collections of mathematics objectives grouped according to grade levels have been replaced by objectives organized by subject matter. Material is presented in a logically sequential order within each major heading. Objectives tend to start at the most elementary and progress to the most complex, so that teachers of the lower grades…

To determine the effectiveness of the Appalachian Maryland Experience-Based Career Education (EBCE) Project in meeting its aims and objectives, a third-party evaluation was conducted for 1977-78. Forty students in grade 12 participated in the project, spending four days a week at selected career sites and a day at the EBCE Learning Center…

Examining the extent to which women were emerging as power actors in rural areas, data were collected from two rural communities (Prairie City at 4,400 and Center Town at 2,000 population) in 1962, 1973, and 1977. The hypotheses examined were: women community power actors will have fewer memberships in voluntary associations than men power actors;…

The paper describes the different types of cognitive, affective, and physical conditions that constitute a school's learning environment, and explains how the learning environment can create and aggravate deviant behavior in some students. One element of the American school structure is group instruction: groups of students are taught by a…

This article analyzes potential problems in using standardized achievement tests in early childhood education settings. The first problem discussed is whether the outcomes typically measured by standardized achievement tests are the outcomes about which early childhood educators are most concerned. Second, it is argued that a concern for test…

This document presents data on the relative influence of (1) maternal education, (2) race (or ethnicity) and (3) poverty on elementary students' academic achievement. Study results indicate that maternal education has the greatest effect on achievement. The data base is reported as representative of all U.S. children enrolled in public schools,…

The Basic Occupational Literacy Test (BOLT) was developed as an achievement test of basic skills in reading and arithmetic, for educationally disadvantaged adults. The objective was to develop a test appropriate for this population with regard to content, format, instructions, timing, norms, and difficulty level. A major issue, the use of grade…

To evaluate classroom processes for teaching basic reading and mathematics, particularly individualized instruction in the context of compensatory education, a model of classroom processes was applied to disadvantaged children from 400 schools, grades one and three. The model specified that criterion performance is a function of initial student…

This report focuses on the education of ninth and twelfth grade minority students living in an urban environment. An explanatory model is employed to analyze each minority group separately. Both the external conditions in which the children live and school conditions and resources that may constrain or facilitate learning are examined in detail.…

Student ratings of teacher performance in higher education have received the bulk of research interest and effort since the first formal published rating form in 1926. Peer ratings run a poor second, and little has been done in the areas of self-evaluation and administrative evaluation. Attempts at using student achievement as an evaluation…

A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of community colleges in aiding those students who transfer to a senior institution, fail academically, return to the community college, and then re-enter the senior institution. The study, involving an examination of student records and a survey, centered on three groups: (1) 137 community…

This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 29 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: alternative views of the English curriculum; development of curriculum theory and language arts; sentence combining; vocabulary development; the effect of music…