The fundamental principle of Education for All (EFA) is that all children should have the opportunity to learn. The fundamental principle of Inclusive Education (IE) is that all children should have the opportunity to learn?together. Diversity is a characteristic that all children and youth have in common?both within each individual child and…

In preparation for a conference on learning and individual differences, the invited authors prepared chapters, which were distributed in draft form. Presentations were followed by discussions, which were recorded, and then edited for this volume, so that the discussion transcript follows each paper. The chapters in part 1, General Background and…

This Analysis yielded three relatively independent and psychologically meaningful factors: Introversion, Social Maladjustment, and Emotional Maladjustment. These factors have a substantial general correspondence to certain Psychological Screening Inventory scales, although it was not possible to define a five-factor solution that corresponded…

Failure is built into our grading system as the necessary opposite of success with the additional justification that students need to understand individual differences. A better approach would be to help children build on positive strengths in anticipation of the tests of real life. Career education may provide alternative approaches for teachers.…

A general developmental model for interindividual differences, intraindividual differences, and intraindividual changes is described in terms of individuals, variables, and occasions. (ST)

Personality differences betweeen adolescent males who engage in illegal behaviors with accomplices and those who engage in illegal behaviors alone are examined. Contrary to the findings of earlier researchers, in the present study, no personality differences between the two groups were found. (Author)

Describes the nongraded open-concept school implemented at Dick Dowling Elementary School (Port Arthur, Texas). (MM)

Comments on a study which appeared in the Journal of Counseling Psychology v18 p431-436, by Graff, MacLean, and Loving. (CJ)

It appears that most persons surveyed had a relatively high degree of verbal commitment and affect, with lower levels of actual commitment and knowledge--they were willing to do a great deal to help curb pollution, but, in fact, they actually did fairly little and knew even less. (Authors)

This article reviews national statistics on student success and failure and the conclusions drawn include a proposal to organize education to capitalize on age and specialization differences among children. (JA)

This paper will discuss three alternative research strategies, which have been used to gain information about the effectiveness of counseling procedures. (Author)

The main experimental hypothesis of this study, that high sensation seeking subjects would be characterized by a significantly greater number of escape attempts than low sensation seeking subjects, has been strongly supported. (Author)

A model for the analysis of paired comparison data is presented which is metric, mathematically tractable, and has an exact algebraic solution. (Authors/MB)

The number of children who can actually profit from the open classroom are few in number. (Author)