Third-year residents nearing completion of their training and preparing to leave for independent practice often appear to experience anxieties that suggest a form of separation crisis. Their negative behavior may be a way of making the old milieu less welcoming and thus easier to leave. Advice for easing the transition is offered. (JMD)

The use of physical violence on students affronts democratic values and infringes on individual rights; furthermore, a study of school violence found a high correlation between physical punishment and violent behavior of students. (Author/MLF)

At the University of Texas at Austin, 326 students were surveyed concerning their drinking behavior. This article presents the design of the survey, the findings based on sex of the student, student classification, marital status, and grade point average, and identifies student subpopulations which indicate heavier drinking patterns. (Author)

Supports the tenet that American college students tend to make assertions that correspond to their sex-role stereotypes. (RL)

This experiment examines the impact of a higher-order question teaching strategy on student process (classroom behaviors) and product (achievement and attitude) variables. Results generally show some impact on student process variables but little positive impact on student product variables. (Author/JMF)

The purpose of this study was to determine whether undergraduates classified as high or low in sexual permissiveness could be differentiated using variables reflecting socioeconomic status, religious background, sexual behavior, and sexual knowledge. The derived discriminant functions were found to correctly classify 97.1 percent of the subjects.…

Special conditions of urban schools that operate as barriers to renewal and present difficulties for renewal efforts are explored. (JD)

Examines the educational and cultural system that formed the environment out of which grew the fanaticism of the Weathermen, the militant student group of the 1960s. (GT)

Teachers can be effective health educators by setting a good example for students. (JD)

College students who preferred a highly structured classroom situation but were in a section with low structure had lower mean achievement than had other students. (Editor)

Describes a study that assessed how correction behavior in the oral reading of 48 elementary school students related to comprehension, as measured by cloze performance. Indicates that new measures of reading comprehension are needed, as correction behavior acts as an indicator of comprehension. (TJ)

Sex education provides information about sexual functioning and helps students develop healthy attitudes toward sex. Several new approaches are available to educators to facilitate sexual development. Discusses four such approaches: (a) values clarification, (b) moral development exercises, (c) role working and (d) human potential exercises.…

Reports on the pioneering Hammersmith Teenage Project, which attempts to offer delinquents a real alternative to residential care. (Editor)

Observation of a child's health should be a constant activity for a teacher, particularly since a teacher's observations of a child's physical and emotional problems are likely to be more accurate than those of parents. Provides some guidelines for teachers in evaluating a student's mental and physical health. (Author/RK)

Reports on findings from a study which has attempted to more fully examine the relationship between religiosity and both sexual attitudes and behavior for the same sample of subjects. (Author/RK)