This document provides transcripts of testimony presented in a congressional hearing held to evaluate drug abuse in high schools, with a focus on Ohio. Testimony from Ohio residents is presented, including the Mayor of Mansfield, Ohio; a principal; a teacher; a sheriff; students who have used drugs; concerned parents; and police and Ohio county…

Since there is general agreement that all teachers do not produce the same amount of learning even when provided with similar or identical classes and teaching conditions, this study attempted to determine the relationships between specific teacher behaviors and pupil-on-task-performance. (Author/RK)

Reports of the use of behavior modification in the classroom are reviewed, with special attention given to whether or not generalization of the effects of the behavior modification programs was obtained. The authors develop a set of 15 proposed "rules" for obtaining generalization of the effects of behavior modification procedures. (Author)

This ethnographic study of a self-contained classroom of eight-, nine-, and ten-year-olds examined sexual differences in peer interactions. Within the observed classroom, males and females established separate social systems which had only limited contact with each other. Males were found to interact with significantly more classmates than…

Teachers of English as a second language in Japan often have difficulty in stimulating spontaneous classroom discussion; Japanese social and classroom custom dictates subdued and respectful student behavior. Suggestions for overcoming this inhibition are made. (CHK)

Recognizing that behavior is a result of the integration of affective and cognitive factors, drug education must focus on the motivations of students. Article focused on the responsibility for development of drug abuse programs that must be shared by schools as well as students and teachers. (Author/RK)

Children with behavior disorders are difficult to educate, but exclusion from school is legally questionable, educationally irresponsible, and socially self-defeating. (Author/DW)

Information is presented from a study examining the amount, type, goals, and consequences of contacts between foreign students and the residents of a local community (a college town in the Northeast). Several types of data on contacts between foreign students and townspeople were collected in a period from January to June 1986. Results indicate…

Researchers as well as others evaluating teachers or programs are often interested in the verbal and non-verbal behaviors related to the learning of students in classrooms. The Student Record of Behavior (StRoBe) is a classroom observation instrument designed to provide simple low inference information concerning student behaviors related to…

This article discusses how to determine the learning style of a child with learning problems and how to use the information to maximize the child's potential. Assessing the child's learning style begins with close observation in a variety of settings, which provides a generalized idea of the child's behavior. This is followed up by categorizing…

The purpose of this study was to determine which behavior modification procedures were the most effective in reducing and controlling the inappropriate calling out behavior of a fifth-grade socially and emotionally disturbed student. Three phases of interventions were involved. As the study began, the resource room instructor was using a behavior…

Classroom management is a course design which seeks to move beyond the almost exclusive emphasis in this subject on the manipulation of student behavior. Socioenvironmental awareness and awareness of the school culture are viewed as a context within which issues of time, physical environment, and behavior management may reasonably be addressed.…

This book describes the range of causes, remedies, research, and theory on troublesome behavior in schools, focusing on what may be of practical value to teachers in ordinary classrooms and schools. It demonstrates how problem behavior can be understood in terms of students' motives; students' domestic, peer group, and classroom context; and how…