Provides and explains a teacher self-evaluation instrument designed to measure inquiry teaching. Recommends that a lesson be videotaped after which the educator scores the presentation on the criteria of lesson content, student behavior, teacher behavior, and questioning techniques. (CP)

Recent research on the topic of effective teaching is reviewed in this article, with emphasis given to teacher behavior, research methodology, and directions for future research. (DS)

Describes the operational tests of the two-way interactive cable television system using a firefighter training series administered to the Rockford (Illinois) fire department. Cognitive and affective measurement instruments described indicate a significant difference favoring two-way systems of in-service training programs. (JMF)

Presents a study of the relationship of managerial communication and employee morale by means of a questionnaire covering variables such as the quality of relationship, quality of communication, job satisfaction, willingness to move, and identification with a work group. (JMF)

Journal availability: J. B. Lippincott Company, East Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19105.

Suggests an explanation for the link between environment, malnutrition, and rate of mental development in children. It is argued that biological factors and difficult socioeconomic conditions interact to slow mental development by undermining the establishment and maintenance of a "syntonic,""synchronic," and "reciprocal" relationship between the…

This paper examines: (1) events leading to the present concern over student's rights; (2) a summary of the author's theoretical assumptions concerning school change; (3) recent work in developing change processes in two Ontario secondary schools; and (4) moral and ethical considerations regarding student rights in the process of planned change.…

Reexamines the conceptualization, measurement, and relationships among trust, disclosure and interpersonal solidarity. (MH)

Observed 3-year-old boys and their parents in dyadic play situations to determine how the difference in the ages and roles of parent and child influence the quality of their interaction. Also examines how the sex of the parents influences the nature of their interaction with their young children. (Author/JMB)

This article reports three field experiments undertaken to test the mindlessness of ostensibly thoughtful action in the domains of spoken and written communication. In all the experiments the subjects were randomly chosen adults. (CM)

The study analyzed the interaction sequence of a mother and her 2-year-old Down's syndrome child, with emphasis on the mother's teaching strategies. (Author/SBH)

A number of infantile nonverbal behaviors are listed that can be interpreted as signs of a child's fundamental psychosocial orientations to others during the first year. Ethological studies of child and adult nonverbal communication suggest a considerable degree of neoteny in the human sign system. (SW)

Social order patterns in alternative schools are examined. By focusing on systems of interaction and on social contexts as collaborative accomplishments, the author examines these schools as experiments in social order, as well as in curriculum and pedagogy. (MJB)

Because feelings workers experience as part of counter-transference may affect attitudes toward clients and their performance of casework, such feelings are the concern of supervisors and workers. An exercise which has been used successfully in the exploration by worker and supervisor of feelings that are nontherapeutic is presented. (Author)

Describes a research project examining non-professional knowledge of and attitudes to sensitivity training groups. A questionnaire was distributed to college students, police officers and members of a group dynamics class. Results indicate that all three groups had fairly positive attitudes towards sensitivity training. (NG)