Summarizes a study exploring the effects of student confrontation on high school teachers' intended curricula. Examines the context of confrontation through 10 urban teachers' discourses. Teachers eliminated controversial content and even altered formal curricula to maintain control and avoid confrontation. Constructing a more meaningful learning…

Schools and school personnel have moral and ethical responsibilities to take reasonable action to prevent suicides by students. Liability could be imposed if school personnel had knowledge of a student's suicidal intent and failed to take action based on that knowledge. (75 footnotes) (MLF)

Structured interviews were conducted to examine how teachers, parents, and 3- to 7-year-olds perceive independent learning. Major findings suggest that children's abilities to think and act independently are underestimated by teachers, particularly for children at the older end of the age range studied. Children became more teacher dependent…

Examines procrastination by college students (30 women, 7 men) of academic and nonacademic tasks at beginning and end of semester. Analysis found that procrastinated tasks early in the term were more effortful and anxiety provoking than other tasks during the term. Results imply that academic and nonacademic tasks should be challenging, yet fun,…

Examines male and female students' participation in class discussions (measured in word counts). Finds that students participated more frequently in face-to-face discussions after they participated in a Daedalus Interchange sessions, but socially constructed variables such as gender lead some students to participate less frequently in traditional…

Looks at how a class newsgroup impacted on class participation in a graduate seminar that included students who initially appeared at a possible disadvantage--linguistically, educationally, and experientially. Discusses these culturally diverse students' contributions to the asynchronous class discussion. Raises concerns about limitations of the…

A former substitute teacher explains how she won first-graders' attention and significantly improved deportment by pretending to be a Martian with different communication modes and hearing capabilities than terrestrials. Children painlessly learn tips on listening, communicating, and engaging in friendly behaviors. (MLH)

Examined whether elementary students would compensate for restricted physical activity during school hours by increasing activity levels after school. Students wore an accelerometer monitor for 4 consecutive days. Overall, students did not compensate for sedentary school days by increasing their physical activity levels after school. Activity…

Examines the differences between German and Vietnamese students in both learning-relevant features and the relation between learning strategies and motivational features. Reveals both communalities (similar patterns of determinants of depth-oriented learning strategies) and differences (longer duration of studies and higher reliance on repetition)…

Describes a study that examined the effect of moderating variables on the attitude-behavior relationship within the context of traditional-aged undergraduate students' experience of distance education. Results showed attitude and subjective norms were the most important predictor variables of behavioral intent to enroll in a distance education…

Discusses how creative planning can help schools to keep washroom traffic moving, deter vandalism, and reduce maintenance. (EV)

Examines the work of several theorists who laid the groundwork for contemporary classroom management in an effort to provide educators with effective ways to encourage and teach appropriate student behavior. Notes that theoretical contributions of B.F. Skinner, Fritz Redl, William Wattenberg, William Glasser, and Thomas Gordon all have relevance…

Compared health beliefs and risky sexual behaviors among college students who did and did not seek HIV testing. Data from student surveys and testing/intervention sessions indicated no significant differences in health beliefs. Students considered themselves invulnerable to HIV. Counseling sessions were influential in persuading students to…

Determined current health risk behaviors of rural college freshmen using elements of the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS). Student surveys indicated that for some behaviors, the incidence among these rural students was higher than the incidence among freshmen from the NCHRBS (e.g., binge drinking, ever smoking marijuana, and…

Reviews selected research on the benefits of student involvement in extracurricular activities, especially in small schools. (PKP)