This study investigated how one important variable, the child's performance, affected the teacher's perception of a child and the causal source of his performance. (Author)

Pretest measures of paired-associate learning and mediational skill were obtained on 36 educable mentally retarded children in primary grades, after which the children were assigned in groups of 12 to an intentional training condition, an observational learning condition, and a control group condition. (Author/MC)

Impressions of what teachers experience when they are registered in a graduate level course as students and the ways in which they accommodate to their new role are analyzed by the research method of participation-observation. (Author/KM)

Article offers the analysis of an observer who might be from another planet, and his critical thoughts about the American system of education. (RK)

The present investigation was concerned with the manner in which changes in children's behavior to one dispenser of reinforcement (Experimenter A) might affect behavior to another dispenser (Experimenter B). (Author)

Study investigated the nature of elementary teachers' priorities of behaviorally stated objectives of instruction and the practice of these priorities in the classroom. (Author)

Study to determine the relationship, if any, between the levels of thinking used by the teacher and those used by pupils. (Author/CB)

This project was undertaken to train teachers in more effective contingency management by extending the amount and kind of training. (Author)

The prototype verbal interaction recording technique described is used for studying individuals in small groups. A methodology for recording verbal interaction is developed in an effort to create a system for analyzing interpersonal and social forces in operation within groups. (SM)

Accountability system described asserts principle that educators are responsible for corrective action when goals are not achieved. (DS)

The author argues that "to answer certain research questions the individual student (rather than the classroom) is the proper unit of analysis." Appended are approximately 38 references. (Author/AK)

Results of multivariate prediction of reading achievement and intellectual development from observability of varied types of intellectual functioning indicate need for examination of priorities of various activities in the first grade curriculum. (Author)