This paper presents some background information and a brief report on the progress of the first two and one-half months of the Synanon study of the social behavior of communally-reared children in which an attempt is being made to apply ethological methods of observation and analysis to human infant behavior. The children range in age from 6 to 40…

This paper describes the Detroit Education Task Force and its efforts to develop a problem-solving agenda for the Detroit public schools. The paper describes the background and history of the task force and analyzes its relationship with the Detroit Central Board of Education and with administrators of the Detroit school system. The educational…

This study investigated two models of organizational and individual interaction to discover which model better describes the relationship between the degree of bureaucracy in school organizations and the work motivation of teachers within those institutions. Argyris (1973) posited that bureaucracy has a negative relationship to employee work…

This study investigated congruence in ego stage and group relevant aspects of teachers' and learners' personalities, and between their preferences for and perceptions of group work and personality behaviors, as related to learners' learning achievement and to teacher and student satisfaction with learning group membership. Subjects (130 learners…

This book contains 17 papers prepared for a colloquium series on development and related research dealing with conditions and processes of learning, subject matter content and sequence, instructional media, and instructional methods and teacher behaviors: 1) "Organized Retention and Cued Recall" by Endel Tulving; 2) "Developmental Processes in…

This study was designed to develop a series of instructional modules to teach inservice teachers the Flanders System of Interaction Analysis. Instructional modules were constructed based on research information, and then modified from feedback from experts and random trials. Two field-test groups were used to provide data for validation testing,…

Using a cognitive learning theory as a conceptual base, predictions were developed as to the effects of various kinds of trainer behavior in laboratory human relations (T group) training. Data were collected by questionnaires administered to members of ten laboratory training groups, each with two trainers. Factor analysis was done on seven…

This paper is designed to help youth's significant others harness dissident youth's energy into the reins of society's problems. Included is a comparison between healthy rebellion (arising out of love for something) and neurotic rebellion (having no purpose except to fight conformity or the establishment). The author classifies secondary and…

A study tested two hypotheses: (1) that an inservice training program will alter teacher verbal behavior and (2) that this altered behavior will be associated with increased pupil achievement. Subjects were elementary teachers in two buildings, one the experimental (23) and one the control group (20) and their pupils in grades 1 through 5 (596…

Conducted during 1968, this study was primarily concerned with whether Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) enrollees became any more employable as a result of their work experience. It was also concerned with factors that induce enrollees to remain in NYC or to leave it. The study pioneered in a method of quantitative observation of enrollees and work…

This paper, one of a group prepared by the Classroom Interaction Project of the University of Missouri's Center of Social Behavior (see related documents AL 002 750-752), is organized into two parts. The first section, a presentation of results of research into the sociolinguistic distribution of syntactic structures in black and white classrooms,…

The job performance of area-specialists and county agents in Kentucky and Indiana Cooperative Extension Services was measured; and relationships between their job performance and personal and organizational variables were identified. Data were collected by 350 self-reported work samplings per respondent during one work cycle in the Spring of 1966,…

The Howard University Institute for Youth Studies conducts a project in Washington, D.C., to train disadvantaged young adults, aged 22-35, as subprofessional group leaders, counselors, trainers, or supervisors for work with enrollees in an entry level Human Service Aide (New Careers) training program. The program is also meant to include youth and…

To investigate children's ability to describe and make inferences about feelings, thoughts, and intentions that occur in interpersonal relationships, 60 middle class girls were divided into three age groups: 6, 9, and 12 years. Each group viewed two sections of a movie portraying episodes of social interaction. After each section, the children…

This study developed a model for depicting the phenomenon of communication in extension education in the developing nations, with emphasis on the role of extension communicators in such settings. The present model was formulated on the basis of existing ones, then was compared with the actual situation as found in the literature on communication…