This report of the Southern Regional Education Board (Atlanta, Georgia) offers results of a study of black student attitudes, and statements by the project coordinators on these results. Teachers, parents, community leaders, and students attending high schools and junior colleges in five communities were interviewed to provide the information.…

Internal reinforcement control is defined as one's belief that his rewards or punishments are contingent upon his own behavior. This study tested two main hypotheses: (1) that inconsistency in the home environment interferes with the development of internal reinforcement control, and (2) that internal reinforcement control can be increased by…

This paper, number 7 in a series, describes the background for a new study to be based on the Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey data and to be entitled "A Study of Our Nation's Students." The nature and scope of the survey are defined and relevant background and conclusions from the prior reported studies based on this data,…

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the validity of selected predictor variables for estimating academic performance and to assess which of them were best predictors of achievement among selected community college students in North Carolina. A secondary purpose was to develop a model from the findings whereby a student could be…

Problems in handwriting research are related either to the total design of classroom instruction or to specific factors (e.g., position, letter formation). Problems of general design to be researched are the relation of handwriting practice to a student's general writing, identification of the most productive methods of practicing writing problems…

Guidelines presented in this publication offer an impetus and direction which may be necessary for implementing change in the English curriculum. Factors discussed include the teacher's attitudes toward teaching, sources of professional stimulation for teachers, the content (language and literature) and teaching methods of the English course,…

This study attempted to assess the racial attitudes of white college education seniors and to study the relationship between racial prejudice and the following predictor variables: personal contact, change orientation, religiosity, and efficacy. Three research instruments were used to assess racial attitudes and predictor variables: The Attitude…

This field investigation applied multiple measures to determine effects of management development training when used to increase the benefits from a long term motivational program. Two experimental groups and a control group were used. Instruments applied included the Miner Sentence Completion Scale, the Leadership Opinion Questionnaire (LOQ), and…

The objective of the research was to determine the relationship of 8 variables to the educational achievement of 178 Indian public secondary school students in Nevada. The 8 variables were residence environment, mental ability, reading ability, anxiety, self-concept, achievement motive, verbal concept choice, and interaction with the dominant…

The bulk of this anthology treats adults as different from adolescents, in learning and in other respects, and the resultant demands which these differences make upon flexible, conscientious teachers of adults. Three essays deal with an overall view of adult education, its challenges, problems, and rewards. Other essays are concerned with the…

The first practical problem of a Christian educator in reaching inadequately committed adults is motivation. Although educational psychology shows very little that goes beyond self-realization or self-actualization as the basic motive of man, the Christian view of man makes it clear that God's own motivation, agape (self-giving love), is also…

This pilot project sought to determine if instruction in achievement motivation would help potential dropouts to complete their schooling. Subjects were tenth grade students in a suburban Boston high school. A one-week residential course during winter and spring vacations was taken by one group of six boys and a second group of four. Equated…

Functional literacy as an approach to literacy education is now widely accepted; the Experts on Research in Literacy, meeting at Unesco House in July, 1968, felt that, because of the relative novelty of functional literacy, research was needed as part of training programs, and on specific topics. The groups agreed that research, in most cases,…

Presented in this article is a list of practical suggestions designed to aid college teachers of English in instructing disadvantaged students more effectively. (AF)

This study explored the educational and vocational choices and goals of Negro and white youth in Lexington, Kentucky. Data were gathered by standardized instruments administered to the senior classes of four high schools and through interviews of a group of school leaders judged to have potential as behavior models and community leaders. The book…