Perception and production data were collected from 28 children, ages 1 year 8 months to 3 years 11 months to test four specific hypotheses on the acquisition of initial fricatives and glides in English, based on the assumptions that perception precedes production and unmarked precedes marked. Perception data were collected by the Shvachkin-Garnica…

The purpose of this paper is to describe a strategy that facilitates the introduction of a large-scale innovation into public school settings. The principal focus is the new administrative role as it functions in this process. The context is the Experience-Based Career Education model (Academy for Career Education) designed and implemented by…

The main focus of this paper is upon the acquisition of a few specific attitudes: Whether women should work; what kinds of jobs women should hold; and whether women are intellectually curious. Views of women's work role held by ninth-grade boys and girls in Maryland are sampled with respondents drawn from seven residential areas chosen to typify…

One hundred and sixty first grade boys and girls of normal intelligence were tested for ability to conserve multiple space relations. The criterion task apparatus was a wooden T with a model of schoolhouse attached and centered above the point of contact of the horizontal and vertical axis. The T had a track running the length of both its axes…

The purpose of this study was to analyze male Navajo students' perception of occupational opportunities and their attitudes toward development of skills and traits necessary for successful employment in off-reservation occupations. Three instruments were administered to the 79 Navajo students of the Intermountain School at Brigham City, Utah. A…

This paper examines the relationship between organizational climate and the values held by teaching staffs and administrators. To test a number of hypotheses bearing on this relationship, a sample population of 707 teachers and administrators was drawn from a random selection of public elementary schools in metropolitan Vancouver. The position is…

This publication is designed to improve the flow of information among personnel workers both in school setting and in the private sector, and to open avenues of communication among those with similar interests. The volume is divided into two basic sections, the Directory and the Indexes. The Directory contains alphabetical listings of over 500…

After tachistoscopic exposure of a row of letters, recall functions show bowing and skewedness similar to the standard serial position curve that results from sequential presentation of elements. A similar curve is generated by recall of binary elements presented briefly and simultaneously. Prior investigators have interpreted this effect as an…

This instrument is designed to measure teachers' subjective role expectations. The teachers are presented with 10 problem situations typical of those which are often encountered in the classroom. Each situation is followed by four alternative courses of action, representing four different roles, thus providing a total of 40 items. Each is to be…

A comparative analysis of the importance of selected program planning procedures and related actions for developing, conducting, and evaluating adult educational activities as perceived by adult educators and urban planners was made. The sample comprised 35 adult educators and 35 urban planners from 21 areas in Florida. An instrument listed, in…

The effects of the aural-impress and the creative-literary methodologies in teaching reading to 104 educationally retarded and disadvantaged third graders were investigated. The 52 experimental-group pupils received instruction for three 40-minute periods weekly for 16 weeks. Aural-impress procedures were used for 15 minutes each period, followed…

Application of certain anthropological research methods to teacher education, particularly the field experience component, could have a beneficial effect on a future teacher's perception of his role. Present field experience programs can be divided into two types: "apprentice" or student teaching, in which the teacher trainee progresses from…

Visual perception as a part of the reading problem has been difficult for some classroom teachers to comprehend because of the confusion about meaning. This confusion has been due in part (1) to failure to define the term visual perception before writing about it, (2) to studies which take a narrow view of perception yet make broad conclusions,…

The report determines the characteristics of the High School Characteristics Index (HSCI) both as a group and person measuring instrument. Four objectives are listed: (1) determine the item characteristics of the index as a group measurement instrument by using the ratio between means variance to within means variance as an index of item…

The subjects were boys in two vocational high schools who had been rated by their teachers as responding favorably or unfavorably to supervision. Small groups were shown one film daily over a period of five days and discussed the role behavior of the supervisor shown in the film. In one group of experimental subjects, positive attitudes toward…