The study examined the effects of socioeconomic origin (SES) and mental ability (MA) on levels of educational (EA) and occupational aspiration (OA), academic performance (AP), and significant others' influence (SOI) for 1,950 5th grade elementary and 4th year gymnastic students in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Representative samples of approximately…

In this study, creative growth and student behavior under two measurably different sets of learning conditions were investigated. The learning conditions were defined as the physical facilities (classroom, seating arrangement, lighting, etc.), available science materials, and teacher behavior pattern (verbal and nonverbal). Fifth-grade science…

The goals of the Career Motivation Program in the Akron Public Schools are to provide students in grades K-6 with activity-centered experiences geared to the development of self-concepts and attitudes toward work and an appreciation of all vocations and the dignity of all workers. Career motivation is the first phase of the Career Development…

The PACE project is directed to all students in grades 4-6 in the Mehlville School District (St. Louis, Mo.). The major purpose of the project is to involve students in an enrichment program to develop skills in self-understanding and in effective communication with parents and others, and is based on the idea that there is a need for a more…

The purpose of this study was to describe the questioning strategies which fifth-grade teachers employed in their classroom discussions during the teaching of science. The areas of investigation included the initial questioning interchange made by the teacher and a classification of the question into a taxonomy, the forms of the student response…

Using open-ended questions to elicit responses from 77 kindergarteners, 24 second graders, and 25 fifth graders in New York, an attempt was made to determine how children perceive the accuracy and the reality of television programs. The kindergarteners and second graders tended to restrict their observations to specific visual traits, while the…

The Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study (BTES), Phase II, was a research project on effective teaching behavior--what teachers do that significantly affects what and how pupils learn. The purposes of Phase II were to (1) develop an assessment system for measuring teacher and pupil behaviors and other factors which could influence each of them and…

The field tested instructional unit was designed to help fifth graders understand principles related to economics. Lesson topics are: supply and demand, items that maintain a high value, seasonal tourist attractions, seasonal and fluctuating products, principles of budgeting, saving money, and investment possibilities. An introduction for the…

The collection of lesson units for grades 5 and 6 is part of a K-6 career education program. Learning activities relate the subject areas directly to occupations, emphasizing how the skills of the various disciplines are needed in different jobs. Some of the suggested techniques are field trips, guest speakers, and role playing. Included also are…

Using 280 5th graders as subjects, an experiment was carried out to answer the following questions: (1) do certain indentified television formats have effects on cognition? (2) Is mastery of various cognitive skills correlated with extraction of knowledge from a television message which employs the corresponding format? It was hypothesized that:…

This research investigated pre-adolescent children's concepts of political conflict and power, and the processes by which these are acquired. It focused particularly upon the acquisition of such attitudes by Black and Mexican-American children, minority groups currently involved in deep social and political conflicts. The data were obtained with a…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades K-6. SUBJECT MATTER: Reading. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is organized according to grade levels. Materials for K-6 have been organized under four broad color-coded topics: Kindergarten, Word Attack Skills, Comprehension, and Research Reading Levels. Each topic for each grade level is divided into…

The independent reading behavior of 150 achieving fifth graders was investigated. Attention was directed toward the quality and variety of choice as well as to the number of books read. These variables were intercorrelated with standardized achievement tests, IQ, and a number of noncognitive and demographic variables. Indices of quantity, variety,…

The purposes of this study were (1) to formulate specific and measurable behavioral objectives applicable to the teaching of fractions in grade five, (2) to construct a taxonomic programed text that would teach fifth grade students the addition of fractions and their application to problem solving and evaluation tasks, (3) to develop The Taxonomic…

The relationship between a person's behavior and the interaction with his immediate environment is discussed as a shaping process. The behavior that is shaped is always that which is directly and crucially involved in the choice he makes, the response he makes, and the way that response affects him in the given situation. The abstraction process…