A total of 702 tenth grade students in Detroit, Michigan responded to a questionnaire that was designed to measure the impact of the city's court ordered desegregation plan on their attitudes. The questionnaire focused on several areas including educational aspirations, student racial relations, attitudes toward race, and school conditions which…

A brief history of corporal punishment in the public schools, a review of major federal court decisions regarding corporal punishment and due process for students, and an analysis of current trends in disciplinary policy are presented in this report. The conservative trend revealed in school discipline is identified in large part as a response to…

This training manual for ethnographic research was developed for use in the Student Perceptions and School Behavior Project. The first part of the manual discusses project objectives and methodology. The major goal of the project was to gain an understanding of how adolescents perceived their world--school, home, and community; to analyze the…

This paper examines the discrepancy between black working class students' positive attitudes toward academic achievement and their failure to achieve good grades. The research presented was drawn from a study which altered a high school's reward structure, and then tested its effects on student attitudes toward academic achievement. The results of…

This booklet explains a program of discipline and suspension for students who come in conflict with school policy. The Alternative Discipline and Suspension Program (ADSP) operates in an environment of strict adherence to set rules where a student must earn advancement through and eventually out of ADSP back to regular classroom attendance. This…

An instrument is presented for recording and analyzing student and teacher behavior in laboratory or activity-centered vocational education classrooms. The instrument uses categories of behavior, such as: (1) asks extended thought questions, (2) shows or illustrates, and (3) management of lesson, for teachers; and categories such as: (1) asks…

Described is a multi-faceted money system which utilizes positive and negative reinforcement while at the same time incorporating peer pressure and reinforcement for behavior modification. The system uses such items as money, checks, deposit slips, and bank books. Children have jobs such as pencil sellers, banker, or door monitor, and receive pay…

There was little change in the directions of litigation concerning pupils in 1978. As a result of federal statutes requiring the education of handicapped students, the courts have begun to wrestle with some very complex problems concerning the limitations of the federal law and the state legislation passed to comply with the federal legislation.…

Stemming from a major evaluation study of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project, this paper presents a selective list of behaviors compiled by teachers to describe Year One (6-year-old) children in their classrooms according to six designated areas. These areas are (1) logical development (number, spatial, measurement, problem solving,…

A SURVEY ON YOUNG PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE SYRACUSE SCHOOLS DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR 1959-60 WITHOUT HAVING GRADUATED IS PRESENTED. AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCHOOL DROPOUT WAS SOUGHT. THIS INCLUDED WHO HE IS, HIS BEHAVIOR IN SCHOOL, HIS JOB EXPERIENCE AFTER LEAVING SCHOOL, RELATIONSHIP OF DELINQUENCY TO THE DROPOUT, AND FAMILY BACKGROUND AND WELFARE…

THE TWO MAJOR PURPOSES OF THE STUDY WERE (1) TO DETERMINE THE RELATION OF ANXIETY ABOUT SCHOOL TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PERSONALITY AND BEHAVIOR VARIABLES MEASURED IN THE CLASSROOM AND (2) TO EXPLORE THE EFFECTS OF DIFFERENCES IN A CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE UPON THOSE RELATIONS. THE TEST ANXIETY SCALE FOR CHILDREN (TASC) AND THE DEFENSIVENESS SCALE FOR…

THE PURPOSE WAS TO SUBSTANTIATE THE HYPOTHESIS THAT TRAINING COLLEGE STUDENTS IN SELF-PERCEPTUAL THEORY, IN OBSERVING CHILD BEHAVIOR, AND IN ANALYZING BEHAVIOR FROM A PERCEPTUAL ORIENTATION INCREASES THEIR ABILITY TO INFER FROM THE BEHAVIOR RECORDS OF A CHILD HIS STATEMENTS ABOUT HIMSELF. THREE GROUPS OF SUBJECTS, ONE EXPERIMENTAL AND TWO…

RESEARCH STUDIES CONCERNED WITH THE APPROPRIATENESS AND EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE CURRICULUM STUDY (BSCS) MATERIALS ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS NEWSLETTER. BSCS TESTS WERE ANALYZED AND RELATED TO OTHER TESTING INSTRUMENTS USED IN CONNECTION WITH THE BSCS PROGRAMS. DATA COLLECTED FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF TEST NORMS WERE ALSO USED IN A…

AN ANALYSIS OF STUDENT ACTIVISM DEVELOPED FROM A REVIEW OF LITERATURE ATTEMPTS TO (1) PROVIDE A DEFINITION OF ACTIVISM, (2) IDENTIFY THE FORCES THAT CREATED STUDENT ACTIVISM, (3) ANALYZE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ACTIVISTS, (4) DETERMINE THE IMPLICATIONS OF ACTIVISM FOR COLLEGE POLICY, AND (5) IDENTIFY QUESTIONS FOR FURTHER RESEARCH. THE AUTHOR…

THIS DOCUMENT IS INTENDED PRIMARILY FOR TEACHERS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION IN TEACHER TRAINING CENTERS, RESEARCHERS, AND EDUCATORS INTERESTED IN THE EFFECTIVE USE OF AUDIOVISUAL AIDS. NEW TYPES OF PUPIL AND TEACHER BEHAVIOR IN RESPONSE TO NEW AUDIOVISUAL TECHNIQUES ARE EXAMINED. ONLY TECHNIQUES CONSTANTLY AT THE DISPOSAL OF THE CLASSROOM TEACHER…