This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 13 titles deal with the following topics: (1) a paradigm for the study of communicative style; (2) the rhetoric of conversion in Ohio's abolitionist campaign; (3) a generic approach to the rhetoric of the United States Supreme…

An evaluation of the New York State Experimental Prekindergarten Program was begun in 1975 to provide longititudinal data on the effects of prekindergarten on children's development over a period of 5 years. Data were collected on a variety of items, including children's test performance at various times, family background, ratings by teachers,…

Observable teacher behaviors were identified, by teachers and students in English and physical education classes, as either enthusiastic or not enthusiastic. Teachers described their own behaviors and students reported teacher behaviors by describing, in detail, specific events when teaching was perceived as enthusiastic and when teaching was…

Occupational therapists should work cooperatively with special educators and vocational educators in the prevocational and vocational education of handicapped adolescent students. The occupational therapist's knowledge of disabling conditions, the therapeutic relationship, and methods of adapting tools and equipment are of particular value in such…

This curriculum for food marketing (cashier-checking) is designed to provide entry-level employment skills. It is organized into 13 units which contain one to ten competencies. A student competency sheet provided for each competency is organized into this format: unit and competency number and name, learning steps, learning activities, and…

The way that mothers' input assists children with the use of their linguistic resources for negotiating peer interaction was studied. Two two-year-old girls and their mothers were videotaped once a month for eight months while the foursome met at a weekly playgroup. The mothers' language was analyzed in terms of the following questions: (1) Does…

This personal/social skills cross reference catalog for experience-based career education is one of four volumes designed to assist learning coordinators (teachers or work experience instructors) in developing individualized activity sheets for mildly mentally disabled secondary students. Each volume contains a listing of concepts, sub-concepts,…

Examining the adult's role in the development of responsive child care environments, this paper reviews several studies on children's daily learning experiences in the family, the relationship between parents' time spent with children and children's social skills and learning abilities, and the agents parents believe are responsible for the…

A multivariate study focused on external relationships between (a) demographic variables and (b) psychological sex roles and communication apprehension variables. It also investigated differences among psychological sex types and biological sex types with respect to social desirability, speech apprehension, and listening apprehension at the junior…

This study investigated the child rearing environments in 8 community based day care centers and 16 family day care homes and the social competencies of the toddlers enrolled in them. Subjects were forty 19-month-old toddlers from similar backgrounds, half in each type of day care. Socially directed behaviors between the toddler and peers, and…

This document correlates resource materials to items on the clinical and public school versions of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (AAMD) Adaptive Behavior Scale. The rating scales were designed for mentally retarded children and adults and measure behavior in terms of independent functioning, physical development, economic activity,…

This curriculum resource guide on office services is one of a series of seventeen specialized curriculum guides for occupational education of the marginal, handicapped, or special needs occupational education student. The guide begins with six behavior clusters that contain a series of forty-two instructional topics designed to teach job-required…

To be successful, inservice programs need to utilize cooperative learning activities and create collaborative support groups to assist implementation efforts after the inservice program has ended. Placing teachers in small, cooperative groups to discuss the material being presented in the inservice program provide the structure and mechanisms for…

The goal of Phase I of an Association of Vocational Education Administrators/Cornell Institute for Occupational Education study was to identify a set of social outcomes of occupational education. To identify them, project staff interviewed new, continuing, and former students of occupational education about the benefits of their occupational…

This report contains a narrative description of a project to produce a manual for use by student personnel staff to enhance the employment-related interpersonal skills of handicapped community college students. The first two sections overview the project and discuss the need for the project as reflected in the research, literature, and a…