Major theories of alienation from various perspectives are reviewed and their common themes and characteristics relevant to the study of contemporary student alienation are discussed. Two major forms of contemporary student alienation are identified: a retreatist passive form and an active radical form. (Author)

Data indicated that students high in English-language proficiency also tend to receive high behavioral ratings from their teachers. The opposite was true for those low in English-language proficiency. Further research is needed to isolate teacher bias in order to determine whether this factor has undue influence on teachers' behavioral ratings of…

This study describes the events and people involved in one particular case of crowd hysteria occurring in a group of limited age range and environmental exposure and investigages differences between the hysterical group and controls on sociologic, psychologic, demographic, health, and school history variables. (Author)

The major goals of this study are to identify dimensions of bureaucracy and alienation, to determine the relationship of these dimensions to second-order, or integrating, factors, and to determine the relationships between the integrating factors of bureaucratic structure and alienation. (Author)

This pilot study was conducted with the intention of examining changes in attitude that have or are occurring among upperclassmen on the campus of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. One method of judging this was to assess the attitudes of both sexes toward selected current sexual topics. (Author)

Assertion training is a method for directly shaping assertive responses and helps students develop social relationships. (Author/RK)

Results indicated that instruction by an experimenter using modeling procedures had a significant effect on Mexican-American six-year-old's production of causal questions, and that this behavior generalized to new stimuli without significant loss. (Authors)

This paper has been an attempt to show what is involved in actually using two general principles of learning in the planning of a learning experience. (Author/RK)

Author feels that the vast majority of adolescents, even those from relatively disadvantaged areas, are concerned much more with the traditional aspirations of our culture than they are with experimenting with new ideas. (GB)

The purpose of this paper is to attempt to operationalize a number of Gall's criteria in order to measure whether there is any empirical relationship between these criteria and the level of teacher questions. (Author)

Discusses the nature of the open classroom, and describes the behavior of students involved in science activities in an open classroom situation. (JR)

Author offers suggestions to teachers for minimizing behavioral problems and facilitating learning. (CB)

Article examines the correlation between drug use and sex among college students. (RK)

This project was undertaken to train teachers in more effective contingency management by extending the amount and kind of training. (Author)

In this paper there is an attempt to provide a descriptive definition of the Jesus Movement and a typology of recruitment motivation for the Movement (Author)