Surveys the worries of adolescents in Northern Ireland, with a focus on identifying age and gender differences. Analysis reveals that females report worrying significantly more frequently than males, particularly in regard to transition from school and personal and academic issues. Students over 16 report worrying significantly less than their…

Discusses young children's emotional responses during medical examinations and procedures, developmental changes in how they conceptualize illness causation, and the role of play to reduce stress. Describes how teachers can best facilitate structured dramatic medical play therapeutically. (KB)

Studied 8- and 11-year-olds as evaluators of peer group entry and limited resources. Found older children evaluated peers more positively than did younger for limited resources conflicts. Found all children evaluated the focal peer's intentions during group entry more negatively than intentions during limited resources and evaluated peer responses…

Surveyed levels of psychological symptoms (anger, anxiety, and depression) among ethnically diverse, urban college students. Students reported a wide range of symptoms similar to those reported by U.S. adults in the 1990s. Women's levels of symptoms were higher then men's. Older students had lower levels of anger and depression. Ethnic groups did…

Reviews research about the effects of multiage grouping particularly focusing on the differences in achievement and attitudes between students in multiage and single-grade classes and the implications of those differences. Maintains that the value of multiage instruction rests in its ability to foster positive self-esteem and enhance student…

Surveyed urban classroom teachers to investigate their temporal orientation, attitudes toward school change and reform, and time investment behaviors. Data from self-report surveys indicated that there were major differences in teachers' temporal orientations and willingness to participate in school reform activities across age and across gender…

Using a sociocultural framework, this article describes the importance of mediated learning and the difference between theoretical and empirical learning for developing scientific literacy. Components of scientific literacy are identified and a conceptual model adapted from ethnomathematics is used to demonstrate effects of theoretical learning on…

Assessed sleep patterns, sleep disruptions, and sleepiness of second-, fourth-, and sixth-graders. Found that older children had more delayed sleep onset times and increased reported daytime sleepiness than younger; girls spent more time in sleep than boys and had increased percentage of motionless sleep; and 18 percent of children had fragmented…

Explores whether past experiences in mainstreamed classes exert a positive influence on present attitudes of typical secondary students and whether their attitudes differ according to their ages, the specific disabilities encountered, or activities involving disabled peers. Presents the findings and conclusions in detail. (CMK)

Exhibits are a way of self-guided presentation in which visitors use their own knowledge and understanding. Studies a self-guided group visiting an exhibition on dinosaurs which are displayed as robotic models. Finds that the animatronics have a well thought out storyline that increases family and school visitors' understanding of the exhibit…

Examined predictions of 48 four- and five-year-old (mostly European Australian) children concerning the sex of persons carrying out common activities or occupations on television. Responses reveal strong gender stereotyped expectations, which were strongest for masculine stereotyped activities. Stereotyped judgments also increased with age. (SLD)

Defines personal authority as the ability to balance individuation and intimacy in relationships with families and peers. The Personal Authority in the Family System Questionnaire--College Version was completed by Catholic seminarians in Canada. When results were compared with other studies of men, seminarians were found to have more personal…

Basque auxiliary verbs encode tense, agreement relations with ergative, absolutive, and dative arguments, which constitute an inflectional verbal amalgam whose acquisition is not problematic for Spanish-speaking children but is for Spanish-speaking adults. This asymmetry is due to different processes by which the inflectional amalgam is acquired.…

Examines a wide range of writing tasks of 11- and 15-year-old students from four regions of England to establish the relative importance of nonstandard dialect as a factor in deviation from standard English norms in writing. (Author/JL)

The contributions of peer acceptance, friendship, social status, and age relative to mixed-age classmates to children's' attitudes toward school and to achievement in ungraded primary school were studied with 323 ungraded elementary school students. Attitudes toward school were positively related to achievement scores. Predictive variables are…