ANOVA and Profile analysis were employed to compare the computational skills of high and low ability sixth graders during a decade of efforts to individualize instruction. Comparison of lowest ability subgroups demonstrated no differences with statistical significance in their computational skills. There were statistically significant differences…

Researchers have observed that academic achievement of socioeconomically disadvantaged and minority group children declines relative to norms of performance as the number of years in school increases. Less documented is the relationship of student self concept to achievement. A study underway at the University of Texas proposes to address both…

A sixth-grade mathematics test was evaluated in two different ways, and the evaluations were compared. One method of evaluation was to use the Rasch model for item analysis and to accept or reject items on the basis of the extent to which the data fit the model. The other method of evaluation was to ask school superintendents and teachers to rate…

This teaching guide for a tobacco education curriculum at the sixth-grade level is a part of a coordinated K-12 educational support program for reducing smoking. It includes a tobacco curriculum matrix for grades K-12, sample teaching methods, concepts and objectives for grades 4-6, and a resource materials list. The basic instructional concepts…

These are some of the individual materials needed by students using the Comprehensive School Mathematics Program for the Intermediate Grades, Part VI. The book of "Worksheets" contains materials that are labeled with the same letter and number as the lessons with which they are to be used. The six "Collage of Problems" booklets…

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT WERE TO IDENTIFY EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL NEEDS OF STUDENTS AND TO ESTABLISH PRIORITIES AMONG THESE NEEDS. IN AUGUST 1966, QUESTIONNAIRES RETURNED BY 90 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS IDENTIFIED FIVE BROAD AREAS OF IMPORTANT STUDENT NEEDS. THE TWO MOST OFTEN MENTIONED, CURRICULUM METHODS AND CURRICULUM CONTENT, WERE STUDIED.…

A STUDY WAS MADE TO DETERMINE THE EXTENT TO WHICH SCORES REPRESENTING PUPILS' STATUS ON CERTAIN DEVELOPMENTAL FACTORS CAN PREDICT THE ACHIEVEMENT IN READING, ARITHMETIC, AND THE MEDIAN OF THE BATTERY OF ACHIEVEMENT TESTS. THE STUDY COVERED A PERIOD OF 4 YEARS DURING WHICH THE SAME GROUP OF PUPILS WAS STUDIED IN THE THIRD, FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH…

THE OPEN ENROLLMENT POLICY OF THE NEW YORK CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION MIGHT REVERSE SOME OF THE DAMAGING INFLUENCES OF SCHOOL SEGREGATION ON PUPIL SELF-CONCEPT EITHER BY CONTRADICTING THE STEREOTYPED ASSOCIATION OF RACIAL SEGREGATION AND SOCIAL INFERIORITY OR BY AFFORDING "CULTURALLY DEPRIVED" NEGRO CHILDREN ACCESS TO SUPERIOR EDUCATIONAL…

A questionnaire attempting to define adolescence from the adolescent's view was administered to 300 students, 50 males and 50 females in each of 3 grades (grades 6, 9, and 12). The questionnaire examined (1) ages perceived as dividing points between adolescence, childhood and adulthood; (2) tasks seen as most important in advancing from one period…

The Kumtuks program, an alternative rehabilitation program established by the Vancouver School Board in 1976 for Native Indian students, is described. Kumtuks was established to retain students between grades 6 and 9 when the drop-out rate among Native Indian students is the highest. The results of the evaluation of the first two years (1976-78),…

The concept under investigation was the reliability of estimates of mean scores of groups under various assumptions of multiple-matrix sampling when reliabilities are computed according to procedures based on generalizability theory. Four different cases were compared with respect to the generalizability coefficients depending upon whether pupils…

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationship between self-esteem and achievement and to explain why changes in self-esteem have not resulted in changes in achievement. It is postulated that self-esteem affects achievement indirectly through the medium of coping skills. Data from a study of 1657 students in 53 sixth grade classrooms in…

The compositions of sixth, tenth, and twelfth grade students were used to determine whether narrations or arguments of high syntactic complexity were rated higher than narrations or arguments of low syntactic complexity. Selection of the compositions was made in pairs--one of high syntactic complexity and one of low syntactic complexity--each…

LATIN TEACHERS AND LANGUAGE SUPERVISORS IN CHICAGO, DETROIT, CLEVELAND, PHILADELPHIA, AND NEW YORK VISITED FIVE 6TH AND 7TH GRADE CLASSES IN FIVE DIFFERENT WASHINGTON, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND PARTICIPATED IN DISCUSSIONS AFTERWARDS WITH LOCAL ADMINISTRATORS, CURRICULUM WRITERS, AND TEACHERS. THE CLASSROOMS VISITED WERE INVOLVED IN EXPERIMENTAL…

The outdoor education program for sixth graders in San Diego County is described, along with an account of its development and the financial support structure underlying the program. Eleven major outcomes that can be expected from participation in the outdoor education program are enumerated. An intensive pre-camp teacher-training program carried…