Immediately before their second group therapy session, 10 newly formed inpatient therapy groups were randomly assigned to complete either collective or individual art projects. The members of a group in the collective-project condition completed a single art project as a group. Each member of a group assigned to the individual project condition…

A number of conversation exercises are described for use in second language teaching which are intended to promote communication in the foreign language by creating among the students a need to talk and a need to listen. (RM)

There are two major points to this study. First, not all modeling protocals are equally effective in changing the investigative teaching behavior of teachers. Second, three-dimensional representation used in interpreting verbal interaction matrices should not replace the procedures of conventional analysis of such matrices. (Author/MA)

The Rankin Interaction Analysis System, a system of recording behavioral events as they occur between teacher and students is described. Its purpose is to provide a method for teachers and supervisors to evaluate verbal and nonverbal behavior of student teachers in physical education. (Author/MJB)

A total of 207 educable mentally retarded students was involved in this study. Investigated was the effects of the Elementary Science Study Curriculum (ESS) on selected science skills including communicating, observing and inferring. Multivariate analysis revealed that the ESS group performed significantly better than did the non-ESS group. (HM)

A multiple baseline design was used to investigate the effects of simultaneous sign/verbal presentation on the acquisition of verbal labelling of two Down's syndrome girls, ages 6 and 7 years. (Author)

Language is the basic tool of education. Education must be concerned with developing students' communicative skills--skills that are frequently too subtle to be easily evaluated. Although evaluation is necessary, the national role in such evaluation should be a limited one. (Author)

This article discusses the importance of emotions in human life and how emotions can be brought under rational assessment and evaluated in relation to worthwhile educational goals. (JD)

Only two states have enacted statutes of privileged communications that prevent workers from being compelled to testify in court concerning matters revealed in confidence by clients. The author considers the need for further extension of this privilege and explains how workers and clients can protect themselves. (Author)

To provide increased career potential for secretaries, the author gives procedures for teaching secretarial students how to dictate business correspondence and includes a guide on how to speak on a dictating machine. (MF)

A description of the language curriculum at the Harrisville School in New Hampshire, a school for children age 4-7. Language use is encouraged as part of the children's natural interaction with other children, materials, and teachers. (BD)

Compared were verbal and nonverbal interactions between 10 mothers and their Down's syndrome infants and 10 mothers and their nonretarded infants. (Author/CL)

Because the kibbutz in Israel is work-oriented, leisure activities play a small role in the lives of the people; recreation most often takes the form of intellectual pursuits, reading, discussion, and participation in group activities such as an occasional game of soccer. (JD)

First-grade teachers characterized by high knowledge of behavioral principles were more verbally positive with their classes and produced significantly higher residual achievement gain results for low-IQ and middle-IQ pupils than did first-grade teachers characterized by low knowledge of behavioral principles. (Author/MV)