The influence of a child's sex, physical attractiveness, and conduct on parental expectancies of academic and social performance as well as socialization practices of the child's parents were assessed by comparing parental responses on these measures after reading a child's report card. Parents of elementary-age school children were asked to read…

The purpose of the study was to investigate the influence of teachers' pupil control ideology, dogmatism, and the type of instructional system employed on changes in student curiosity behaviors and the diversity of problems chosen by students for study during a Laboratory Exploration in Biology (LEIB). Students and teachers were selected from…

Time spent in contact with academic course materials as a function of two testing schedules was measured using college undergraduates in an introductory Educational Psychology course. A multi-manipulation single organism design was employed with all subjects enabling both individual and group analysis. A study room equipped with an adjacent…

A category system was developed to describe content development in chemistry classes. The instrument had three broad dimensions: the Semantic dimension for coding the intent of the teacher in developing content; the Syntactic dimension for coding the actual meaning of the communication; and the Initiate-Supply dimension for coding the participants…

This report compares and contrasts Federal court decisions involving student dress codes, with special emphasis on Denver area cases. Discussion covers code enforcement, subsequent court battles, relevant constitutional issues, and First Amendment and procedural and substantive due process considerations. The report includes the official…

Junior colleges, compared with 4-year colleges and secondary schools, experience little student dissent. The extent of protest at junior colleges, however, is underestimated by junior college administrators, faculty, and the general public. In a survey of 841 junior college deans of students, 231 (37.7 per cent of the 613 who responded) reported…

This paper presents a two dimensional chart of student behavior and subject matter content for facilitating the development of the Individually Prescribed Instruction (IPI) science curriculum, or any science curriculum. Within this framework, behavioral objectives are formulated, science subject matter content is selected, student learning…

James H. Straughan lists five steps for modifying target behavior and four steps for working with teachers using behavior modification. Grant Martin and Harold Kunzelmann then outline an instructional program for pinpointing and recording classroom behaviors. (JD)

This study reports the views of deans of students with regard to organized student protest in 1967-68, considering (1) specific issues, (2) number of institutions involved, and (3) proportion of students involved. Questionnaires were returned by 86% of the 1,000 accredited four-year colleges contacted. The single issue (of the 27 issues in the…

At the end of the 1968-1969 academic year, a survey was undertaken to determine the nature and extent of campus protests, how their frequency and types vary, how institutional responses to them differ, what institutional policies and practices have been changed because of them, and other related matters. The survey instrument was a questionnaire…

The main question discussed in this paper is whether the confrontations which have been taking place on college campuses these past few years provide the basis for a new consensus which will enable all to move forward with confidence and a renewed sense of achievement. In discussing these confrontations, however, several fallacies need to be…

The first part of this paper is a summary of Peterson's research done on the student protest movement. In 1965, questionnaires were sent to deans of students at all 1,000 accredited four year colleges in the country. The 1968 survey was conducted in the same manner with new issues substituted in the questionnaire. Results of both surveys included…

The PLAN Student Observation Scale (PLAN-SOS) was developed to measure the percentage of time that students spend performing various behaviors judged to be important to the learning process in the system of individualized instruction upon which Project PLAN is based. An earlier document reported the use of this instrument in comparing PLAN…

The main purpose of the study was to describe teacher and pupil behavior during science lessons. Subjects of the investigation reported in this document were 144 first, second, and fifth grade pupils and the twelve teachers who taught these pupils. Each classroom was observed during five lessons of Science - A Process Approach. The instrument used…

This paper analyzes verbal interactions between teachers and students to determine the speaking and listening skills which a teacher must possess. A simple model of classroom verbal interaction presents four possibilities: a) teacher-initiated conversation, b) pupil-initiated conversation, c) teacher response to pupil, and d) pupil response to…