If a foundation grant is to be made to the appropriate organization and in an adequate amount, both the funder and the funded must prepare thoroughly and communicate objectives clearly. Recommendations for successful fund-raising and fund dispensing are given. (Author/MSE)

Observed the social communication and task relevant behaviors of 80 kindergarten and first-grade children, each of whom was assigned to do a task with either a friend or a nonfriend. Results showed that friends exhibited less sharing and communicative behaviors and more task relevant behaviors. An explanatory model is suggested to account for…

Used modeling and role playing to strengthen the cognitive and social skills of students in a high school with high dropout and delinquency rates. Subjects who received special training were able to think of more adaptive ways of approaching problematic situations, and perform more effectively in a self-presentation situation. (Author/JAC)

Outlines a three-stage training program that focuses on teaching a limited set of skills to children for use in conflict resolution. Stages include readiness activities, skill training, and structured generalization. Results indicate peers and teachers have observed improvement in children who participated in the program. (Author/JAC)

Attempts to clarify the epistemological basis of interaction analysis by exploring the modes of observation researchers adopt when using interaction coding schemes and outlining the validation requirements these options entail. Modes of observation include the viewpoint of the experiencer, the process of experiencing, and what is experienced. (JAC)

Reports the findings of an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study about the educational problems of the handicapped. Compares different countries' approaches to mainstreaming and identifies lack of social skills and lack of specific professional skills as the primary and secondary barriers to employment. (DC)

Curriculum theory must attend to three problem areas: educational practice, ethical criteria, and content. Educational practice includes questions about predictions, explanations, and descriptions. Ethical criteria are used to clarify improvements in values. Substantive content ranges across areas of human inquiry from the humanities to natural…

The Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement Program focuses teachers' attention on interpersonal behaviors that can lead to improved student achievement. (Author)

Examines the success of (N=13) premarital counseling programs. Reviews programs which outlined standardized intervention procedures and utilized dependent measures to assess the program's effectiveness. Premarital counseling programs were generally found to be atheoretical in their approach to intervention, loosely designed, and nonspecific as to…

Investigated the influence of methodological variables on the performance of older adults. Contrary to expectation, communication performances with non-peers required less time and fewer utterances than with peers. The more distracting home setting required more attention cues to maintain partner attention than the laboratory setting. (Author/JAC)

Through this fable of a liberal arts major, the mastery of human skills is stressed before that of vocational skills. The sign of a successful student and employee is mastery of both skills. (Author/BEF)

The article describes the capabilities and features of basic microcomputer systems and describes special education applications: computer assisted instruction, prosthesis, testing, communication, and enhancing personal relations. Problems such as the availability of authoring languages, high quality educational software, and computer safety are…

Researchers from several disciplines have contributed to the realization that context or social situation varies in regard to a child's language acquisition. Children acquire both linguistic competence, the unconscious understanding of grammatical rules, and communicative competence, the understanding that language is used differently in different…

Having students read, view, or create imaginative works will not impart to them moral didactic or morally important knowledge, but such practices can contribute to moral education by extending children's visions of moral possibilities and perhaps by increasing their skills in understanding people. (SJL)

Inclusion behavior refers to associations between people in groups. It recognizes individuals by including them in group activity such as getting acquainted, relaxing, or just having fun. Activities are suggested for use in the classroom or training session as well as in social situations. (JAC)