Unlike the past models guiding cross-cultural psychological research, a new paradigm facilitates multiple level investigations by incorporating both culture-specific (nested) and culture-general (crossed) independent variables within its partially-hierarchical framework. Based upon the generalizability analysis, this model generates sequential…

This study investigates the following hypothesis: If the teacher instructs the aide to reinforce good behavior in children, and reinforces the aide for carrying out her instructions, the children' s appropriate behavior will increase. Subjects were seven teacher-aide teams and seven pairs of retarded children (5-20 years of age). For each child,…

The focus of the study reported here is on two issues: whether the two most elaborate systems of natural observation, that is, those developed by Escalona and Watts could be applied to mother-child interaction recorded in a teaching situation; and whether there are relationships between maternal-child behavior so observed, and a more extended…

This annotated bibliography is the ninth in the Doctoral Research Series. It encompasses doctoral research on special programs and their effects on minority children and youth reported in "Dissertation Abstracts International" from 1965 through June 1973. The citations are arranged in the following categories: early childhood (Head…

This investigation studied children of different races, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexes, and attempted to identify the components by which they arrive at their self-evaluation. The study used a pre-tested 30 item self-esteem measure. The study also used a test anxiety scale, an achievement orientation scale, and an arbitration scale. The…

This study has 13 chapters. The first chapter introduces the study, with a background of reference to data from previous research on school desegregation studies. Chapter 2 discusses the events leading up to and ensuing from the desegregation decision of the Riverside California School District Board of Education. Chapter 3 gives an overall…

We need to find out the extent to which individual differences, social class differences and race differences in rates of cognitive development, and differential patterns of relative strength and weakness are attributable to genetically conditioned biological growth factors. The answers to this question might imply differences in our approach to…

This issue of the IRCD Bulletin is devoted to commentaries on an article by Arthur R. Jensen on the nature-nurture controversy in a recent number of "Harvard Educational Review." Contents of the Bulletin are comprised of the following: "Education, Ethnicity, Genetics and Intelligence; Jensenism: Another Excuse for Failure to…

A brief review of the findings of previously funded early childhood research is followed by a complete description and analysis of the longitudinal descriptive studies and longitudinal studies of intervention reported in FY 70 and 71 by the members of the Interagency Panel on Early Childhood Research and Development. The longitudinal descriptive…

The premise of this paper is that psychologists need to reconsider the process by which psychological ideas are applied in educational practice. Psychological ideas do not guide educational practice as much as they should because psychologists fail to consider what is happening in the classroom. How a teacher thinks as a psychologist can be…

To better assess infant behavior and development in developing countries, cross-cultural psychologists need to more systematically address the following issues: (1) demographic constraints; (2) risk factors; (3) infant care; and (4) the transfer of Western technology to the developing world. (Author/BJV)

Discusses recent research on learning style, revealing some of the problems with the research as well as how work on learning modality can help students with trouble in school. Also discusses tests that identify learning style, and advises teachers to keep an open mind about learning style research. (SKC)

A study of high school students learning computer programming was conducted to determine the impact of programming on particular mathematical and reasoning abilities, the cognitive skills or abilities that best predict programming ability, and what students actually understand about programming after two years of study. (MBR)

Describes a study which examined how elementary school students learning Logo through structured and unstructured teaching methods compared in time on task, discipline, and organization factors, and whether techniques other than mastery measures can be used to differentiate Logo classes taught by structured and unstructured techniques. (MBR)

Reports empirical relationships between various facets of school motivation and sub-scales of the Approaches to Studying Inventory used with British and Hungarian secondary school pupils. The inventory factor structure proved stable across nationality and sex, providing a profile of scores which indicated different motives and ways of tackling…