The decentralization policy of Tomorrow's Schools entrusted individual schools with their own operational funds, and responsibility for property and personnel decisions and for staff development. As a result, the role of the primary principal became wider, calling on new knowledge and skills. Principals were also given a greater workload and a…

This book is intended to help teachers and librarians introduce elementary school students to the concepts and aesthetics of art appreciation using some of the best picture books available. The book analyzes the artwork of more than 50 award-winning picture books from cover to cover, and shows teachers and librarians how to discuss the art of each…

Knowledge of the processes involved in visual and auditory perception, as well as basic understanding of the mechanisms employed by the human brain in transforming perceptions into cognitions are prerequisites for the study of television aesthetics. Numerous scientific studies now found in such diversified fields as perceptual psychology,…

This study investigated discrepancies in partners' skills that arose during children's collaborative problem solving. Some researchers have concluded that expert peers' poor teaching skills seriously curtail the learning potential of expert-novice peer collaboration. This study examined the ways in which experts and novices negotiate and…

The results of a Wellington (New Zealand) project to develop science instruction materials for teachers with non-native learners of English are presented. The first section describes the project, which involved the collaboration of science teachers and English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) specialists, offers general guidelines for language learning…

As many as 40% of older people in the United States live long enough to become great-grandparents, yet little is known about the content of this role within the American kinship system. Great-grandparents (N=20) living in the South responded to a depth anthropological interview which explored their perceptions of great-grandparenthood as a kinship…

To determine whether deficits warranting intervention are present in the later functioning of high-risk infants, 22 premature infants who experienced asphyxia or chronic lung disease (CLD) but who had no gross developmental abnormalities were evaluated. Assessments of auditory perception and receptive language ability were made during later…

G. Wolford's perturbation model of letter identification is designed to account for identification errors of briefly presented characters. Its chief assumptions are that features are extracted in parallel, that some of these features become perturbed or mislocalized, and that mislocalizations are more likely to occur in the direction of the fovea…

This discussion encompasses how people come to recognize moral obligations, how they arrive at moral judgments of themselves and others, and how the individual employs moral judgments to guide his own behavior. (Author/AM)

An examination of sex-role attitudes of both sexes revealed the following results. Males and females tend to show the least divergence over (1) macrolevel social change issues and (2) the familial roles of both sexes. They differ most over (3) extrafamilial roles of females and (4) the stereotypes of both sexes. Paper presented at the American…

Three tentative conclusions are drawn: personality factors of black students are perceived differently by different groups in sample, styles of perception exist, and that if education is to be void of excessive conflicts, affective objectives must be dealt with. (Author/AM)

Female students (28 black, 28 white) viewed videotape of a counseling session in one of four conditions: (a) two female counselors (one black, one white), and (b) two counselor roles (active, passive). Analysis of students' ratings revealed (a) no differences among conditions in perceived attentiveness or friendliness, (b) significant differences…

This study was designed (a) to investigate client-counselor congruence in the perception of problems in eight potentially handicapping problem areas and (b) to find factors that might be contributing to any identified variance in problem perception. Results suggested that considerable incongruence exists between rehabilitation counselors and their…

Male and female undergraduates and older community volunteers were asked their opinions as to the age of onset of young man- and womanhood, middle-age man- and womanhood, and old man- and womanhood. Data indicated that older respondents generally judged onsets of both middle and old age to occur significantly later than did young respondents.…