Attitudes associated with science appear to affect student participation in science as a subject. This report describes a study of elementary and secondary students that sought to determine students' attitudes toward science and to examine the correlation between attitudes and ability, gender, ethnicity, grade, and science achievement. Findings…

The relationship between self ratings and teacher ratings of 100 children, 9 to 15 years of age, in classes for the educable mentally retarded was examined. (Author/MC)

Career Education at the junior high level should expose students to several career clusters. The students' broad experiences should be specific enough to provide some salable skills should they be forced to withdraw from the educational process. (Author/DS)

Studied performance of 15 low-socio-economic-status 14 year olds in learning controlled-experiment design and evaluation, and indicated that experimental subjects significantly outperformed matched controls. (CC)

Examines the role played by ability in determining earnings differentials along both the earnings profile for given levels of schooling attainment and across schooling levels. (RJ)

Studied relationships of categorizing ability to socioeconomic status and strategies used in ability performance for 60 kindergarteners from families at two income levels. Concluded the presence of differences in test results, a similarity in cognitive developments, and a tendency of perceptual focusing in handling tasks. (CC)

Markedly different socioeconomic status and academic ability for high school students in the college preparatory and the vocational education programs as identified through analysis of national data collected by Project TALENT, with implications for curriculum. (MF)

The findings in the present study show that an understanding of subject matter tends to be more important than the forms which academic interrogation may take. Hence a solution to the problem of cultural bias seems to relate to remedial academic skills. (Author)

Secondary school students perceptions of their teachers were analyzed by pupil characteristics and teacher characteristics. Academic achievement, pupil sex and age, teacher experience, and subjects taught were among the factors affecting students evaluation of teachers. (JB)

Alienation was measured by Alienation Scale of Neal and Rettig (1963), vocational maturity by Vocational Development Inventory (Crites, 1961), and scholastic ability by Cooperative School and College Ability Test. No significant relationship between variables was found, suggesting that the Alienation Scale is not suitable for this purpose.…

Paper based on a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of the Pacific.