Fifth graders read stories to young children in a ghetto community. (SW)

The curriculum and teaching methods revisions necessary with the addition of a ninth school year to compulsory full-time schooling required innovation in history instruction. (JB)

Program designed to train residents, interns and medical students for careers in family practice. (IR)

Junior high school students are classified into five levels in three subject matter areas and measured on three subscales of the California Test of Personality--sense of personal worth, feeling of belonging, and school relations. Results showed self definition is highly related to grouping for instruction in science, moderately so with…

Student ability and behaviors during small-group interaction as mediators of effective small-group learning were examined. Comparison of test results indicated that students trained in small-group interaction participated in more task-related interaction than control students, and task-related interaction enhanced achievement and retention.…

Describes how art activities can create a comfortable atmosphere of valuing diversity without spotlighting the culturally different child. Guidelines are offered for using folk arts, art history, children's literature, and small-group activities. (RH)

The relationships among (a) student and group characteristics, group interaction, and achievement in small groups in junior high school mathematics classrooms and (b) the stability of these relationships over time were investigated. Interaction in the group was a potent predictor of achievement. (Author/LC)

Studied the effectiveness of programed instruction and large group instruction in teaching empathy to lay people (N=55). Results support the contention that empathy can be developed through programed tapes either alone or in large group programs. Modeling and practice are key factors in successful training. (Author/JAC)

Benefits can be gained through the introduction of principles of analysis from a moral perspective. Students should be encouraged to develop modes of moral reasoning and conduct through group discussion, values clarification, and individual expression. (CJ)

The assumption that student groups, as they customarily operate in most classrooms, facilitate the development of critical thinking is challenged as being false. Examined in order to support the thesis are two typical characteristics of classroom life--the norms of pedagogical control and authority knowledge. (Author)

Describes a unit on advertising used in a ninth-grade English class. The class participated in a student-run simulation of an advertising agency. Working in teams, they created, presented, and used criteria to evaluate advertisements. (AM)

Two studies examined an observation instrument designed to obtain frequency counts on the behaviors of learning disabled children during small group instruction. Findings indicate that intervention strategies designed to modify behaviors in disabled children may have positive effects on their academic progress and that observation of their…

Describes two introductory college-level geography programs which use undergraduate students as peer teachers. In a human geography course, they act as small-group leaders in role-playing simulations. In a physical geography course, peer teachers serve as tutors for mastery learning. Socio-psychological, pedagogical, economic, and political…