A family contracting approach, delineating those behaviors which could not be used as sole justifications for involuntary hospitalization is recommended to decrease a psychiatric patient's fear of arbitrary, family-initiated commitment. The contract outlines the decision rules which might necessitate involuntary hospitalization. Advantages are…

The fundamental dynamic in the troubled marriage is seen as pathological nurturance, i.e., the perversion of the sense of caring. Derived from the early role reversal, it leads the spouses to take up hopeless tasks of recompense and rescue. The result is resistive, discordant behaviors as a means of coping. (Author)

The purpose of this paper is threefold: (1) to discuss issues related to the design of interaction on the World Wide Web using models of interaction developed for distance education; (2) to examine several techniques for the analysis of interactions and the quality of the learning experience in a computer-mediated group conference; and (3) to…

Discusses the number of observations necessary to obtain a trustworthy sample of classroom transactions by reanalyzing existing data. Eleven to twenty observations appear necessary for teachers' questions which require students to hypothesize. The reliability of a single observation was zero for four other questioning types. (CC)

Excepts from THE LANGUAGE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN (Penguin, 1973), which evolved from a project initiated by the English Committee of the Schools Council of England and conducted under the direction of Mrs. Connie Rosen; focuses on the talk of primary school children in the presence of a teacher. (Author/JM)

Using the Primary Pupil Reading Attitude Inventory with first and third graders, the relationships between attitude toward reading and achievement, sex, and grade placement were investigated. (Author)

It was concluded that important differences occurred in interaction patterns, but not in pupil affect, when two different curricular organizing strategies were used. (Author)

Describes and evaluates an institute which grew out of an attempt to find solutions to some of the problems resulting from the unitary school" concept which was inaugurated in South Carolina to implement court orders to desegregate public schools. (Author/JM)

This paper discusses the use of interaction analysis in this country and abroad. (VM)

This study investigates those features of adult-child verbal interaction which are associated with high verbal ability. These aspects include: (1) Who initiates adult-child dialogues? (2) How long are they? and, (3) What are the parent's attitudes toward school achievement? (JM)