To document the effects of television public service announcements (PSAs) in a community setting, a public service campaign was designed and implemented to stimulate awareness of and behavioral response to problems of hypertension among urban Mexican Americans in Houston. Three pretested Spanish language PSAs were designed to motivate the audience…

The problems of education in an inner city environment seem intractable, but this book offers a hopeful prescription. It argues that the problems have appeared insoluble in part because observers have been more committed to certain ideological, methodological, and theoretical fashions than to understanding what might work. On the basis of…

Effective schools have staffs that stress the importance of educational goals and have a well-defined mission. They also clearly communicate the expectation that all students can and will reach the stated goals. Reviews of studies of exemplary schools find that the principals express high expectations for both teacher and student performance,…

One of a series of implementation documents prepared in conjunction with the revised minimum standards adopted in 1983 by the Ohio State Board of Education for elementary and secondary schools, this publication discusses the basic elements of a code of conduct for students that complies with the requirements set forth in the minimum standards.…

This report describes a 9-month, nationwide project which investigated the teaching strategies and teacher attitudes which successfully encouraged girls in science. Subjects included 205 females and 147 males from seven high schools. In addition to analyzing instructional techniques, classroom climates, and teacher-student interactions, a selected…

A followup study was made of a previous investigation of the learning and teaching style of preservice elementary school teachers. In the original study, 20 female education majors were given the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) test to determine individual dominant personality types. The portable Rod and Frame Test, the Group Embedded Figures…

The attitudes and expectations of five cooperating teacher-student teacher dyads toward students in two predominantly Mexican American schools were investigated. Data were obtained from participant journals, interviews, conferences, and classroom observations. This paper presents profiles of the dyads, with summaries of teachers' attitudes and…

Since the identification of stress and the relationship of individual stress responses to physical and mental health, medical and behavioral professionals have been training individuals in coping strategies. To investigate the possibility of teaching cognitive coping skills to a nonclinical population in an academic setting, 41 college students…

Review surveys have been developed to elicit information about the perceived appropriateness of many aspects of the teacher's role and also about the level of teacher performance in that role. Surveys were developed for elementary school, secondary school, and private school teachers. The three surveys are basically the same, but the survey for…

A study examined multiple outcomes of relaxation training simultaneously in seventh grade classrooms. "Project Relaxation" measured cognitive (achievement) and affective (discipline, attendance, tardiness, and self-concept) changes with a program of relaxation training for 532 seventh grade students in 10 private and public middle schools in South…

Current research on adolescence provides plenty of facts about delinquency, unemployment, and illegitimacy, yet tells us little or nothing about the inner life of adolescents. In an attempt to provide more information, the research reported on here describes the "periods" of adolescence as they are structured in the various…

This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for a sex equity workshop targeted at secondary school teachers. The workshop is intended to expand awareness of sexism and to increase sex-affirmative behavior in the educational environment. The guide describes the content, process, and sequential learning experiences for six sessions, plus…

This guide provides procedures and supporting materials for a sex equity workshop aimed at secondary school student leaders that is intended to expand awareness of sexism and to increase sex-affirmative behavior in the educational environment. The guide describes the content, process, and sequential learning experiences for seven sessions.…

This project paper reports the interobserver agreements and reliabilities for the observation procedures used in the Descriptive Study of Phase IV of the Individually Guided Education Evaluation Project. Only data from four observers--at the two Developing Mathematical Processes Schools and the two Wisconsin Design for Reading Skills Development…

This paper reports the results of the final stage of a 30 month study of knowledge use in staff-initiated inservice workshops. In earlier stages of this study, knowledge acquisition, use, and impact correlated with multiple sets of participant, workshop, school, and community characteristics. Based on those results, a refined model was developed…