Four nonmetropolitan South Texas counties were the target areas in exploring the proposition that dropouts should have lower aspirations and expectations than their in-school age peers. Data were obtained from approximately 600 Mexican American high school sophomores and 75 dropout age peers residing in the counties studied in 1968 and 1969. The…

The cross-cultural study was conducted under the assumption that intelligence is a learned phenomenon; therefore, if ethnic differences exist, they are not due to differences in intelligence but are due to differences in individual attitudes and social systems. The study was intended to explain educational and occupational aspirations and…

Teaching beginning reading using the Initial Teaching Alphabet (i.t.a.) was experimented with in a project which had the dual purpose of (1) providing educators with the opportunity to observe the use of i.t.a., and (2) determining the effectiveness of i.t.a. with Mexican American bilingual children. Twenty i.t.a. demonstration classes…

This study examines the practice of sponsorship in the selection process of public school superintendents. This active intervention facilitates the distribution of information concerning vacancies and brings selected individuals to the attention of appropriate agencies. The data used are relevant literature and semistructured tape-recorded…

A compilation of data on the hereditary aspects of deafness presented at a conference in 1883 by Alexander Graham Bell, the document contains records of familial occurences of deafness and marriage statistics. Tables indicate that within schools for the deaf many students had the same family name; it was considered highly probable that a…

To determine to what extent children of preschool age comprehend the meaning of logical connectives, 64 5- and 6-year-olds were told to hand differently colored and shaped wooden blocks to an experimenter. The commands involved various English idioms used for conjunction (e.g. both black and round), disjunction (either black or round), and…

This analysis of the Russian character in various aspects of Soviet society in its daily activities focuses on the cultural rather than the political. Included in the study are sections on: (1) hibernation and awakening; (2) the Russian scene; (3) being a Russian; (4) Russian society--mass and minority; (5) manners, morals, and taste; and (6)…

This paper reports three studies designed to determine if significant increases could be made in the prediction of elementary school pupils' academic achievement by adding personality measures to intellectual measures after mental age and intelligent quotient leveling. A fourth study examined the utility of leveling pupils on socioeconomic…

The major objective of this study was to determine whether understanding prepositions and the relationships they signal is related to reading comprehension. A sample of 127 fourth grade students was selected from three socioeconomic levels of the Columbus, (Ohio) Public Schools using a stratified random sampling technique. The subjects were…

This paper is concerned with job satisfaction of men and women who occupy positions of leadership in local school systems. It is concerned with the effects of the ethnic composition of schools, both students and teachers, on the job satisfaction of individuals holding administrative positions. More specifically, it reports the findings of such a…

This paper deals with the broad area of status attainment, attempting to restructure the concept of anticipatory goal deflection (AGD) (distinction between career expectations and aspirations; Kuvlesky and Bealer, 1966) "so as to optimize its integration into a theoretical structure based on sociological and social psychological research and…

The study examined differences in education-related attitudes between a group employed in a technologically and scientifically oriented manufacturing facility and a group from a job environment that reflected chronic unemployment, low skill requirements, terminal achievement levels, and poor opportunities for advancement. Questionnaires were…

This study expanded the Wisconsin model of status attainment, a path model including social psychological as well as social structural antecedents of occupational attainment. Recent research on status attainment has moved away from the description of mobility rates and toward explanation of the processes by which occupational positions are…

This study examined five subscales of the Pennsylvania Educational Quality Assessment self-concept scale, composed largely of items from the Coopersmith Self Esteem Inventory, in terms of socioeconomic status (SES) and sex differences in internal consistency, stability, across time changes in means, and relationship with achievement. In general,…

This annotated bibliography is designed to assist teachers of English and social studies in improving the self-image of pupils of immigrant parents and grandparents and to nurture mutual understanding of cultural and ethnic diversities. It includes writings on every major white ethnic group represented in the United States. In most cases, only…