Author looks at the controversy over school-leaving examinations in America. (Editor/RK)

Twenty-four trainable retarded children, in need of and searching for respect and acceptance as other children do, were inspired by their teachers' creative suggestions to develop themselves both as individuals and as creative persons. (Author/RK)

Author challenges the validity of the practice of ability grouping and segregating students according to their achievement or potential. (GB)

Author considered dynamic contrasts of music and proposed a philosophy that student musicians can readily understand. (Author/RK)

This study analyzes the relationship between counselor effectiveness as defined by scores on the Indexes of Communication and Discrimination and intelligence as measured by undergraduate grade point average (GPA) and Miller Analogy Test (MAT) scores. Subjects were 51 master's degree candidates in an introductory counseling course. Their scores on…

Article considers the purposes of social studies instruction and focused on the transmission of knowledge and societal processes. (Author/RK)

A sample of 89 subjects whose freshman major was engineering and whose junior year major consisted of a variety of nonengineering subjects represented subjects who had made an unrealistic vocational choice as freshmen. The junior year majors of these subjects were classified by Holland's theory of vocational choice and the relationship between the…

Purpose of study was: (1) to obtain data in a cultural setting concerning the ability of children to conserve weight at the point of transition from primary to secondary education; and (2) to explore the relationship between performance or reasoning tasks of the kind employed in nonverbal psychometric tests and the presence or absence of ability…

Mother-child pairs in a small Mexican town and in Los Angeles, California, were observed in two experimental situations in which the mother either controlled the rewards given to the child for success or failure, or selected achievement goals for the child. The children from Mexico were found much less competitive, less rivalrous, and more…

It is suggested that competitive examinations in chemistry should be produced which will be given annually over the nation at the advanced undergraduate level. (DF)

Because of the varying requirements among institutions for graduate degrees, it is difficult to ascertain the actual competence of a graduate student. (HS)

Maternal estimations and aspirations are better predictors of children's attitudes than is family socioeconomic status. Moreover, a significant relationship suggests that supportive behavior on the part of mothers is encouraging to children. (Author)