This study was undertaken to determine motivational factors connected with the learning of English by francophone students living in a milieu where there is little contact with anglophones. Research is reviewed which supports the contention that the attitudinal/motivational dimension, or integrative motivation, bears an important relationship to…

This report discusses the measurement of behavioral and attitudinal aspects of young children's socioemotional development and briefly describes a variety of instruments designed to measure such development. Information given for each instrument includes: author, source, variables examined, type of measure, age of children test is designed for,…

"Of Mice and Men" is developed as an interdisciplinary unit to be team taught by math, science, language arts, and social studies teachers and team guidance counselors. Developed as an individualized program for middle school students, a variety of supplementary materials is provided to exemplify the types of activities suggested for students.…

The project described consisted of a field experiment in the delivery of a social service by means of a commercially-operated cable television system. A five-program series was developed and produced which provided foster-parent training leading to the licensing of prospective foster parents. Some 64 volunteers began the training program. Half the…

This curriculum guide for fifth-grade teachers contains values-based classroom lessons on the topic of group action. The lessons are intended to assist students in the development of a positive self-concept and inter- and intrapersonal skills necessary for individual and group effectiveness. Teaching techniques include use of transparencies and…

This study manipulates the variables of children's ethnicity, sex, and ability to ascertain the nature of the interaction relationship between teacher expectancies and student performance. The subjects were urban teachers who were asked to read case histories and then rate the child on a Likert-type family and pupil behavior rating form and a…

This study examined cognitive and affective development among children in ten preschool (Head Start) programs in the Boston area that varied in socioeconomic class, racial composition, and cultural emphasis. Data, collected over a two-year period, were compared in an effort to ascertain the effects of socioeconomic status and racism on the…

This longitudinal study investigated mother-infant interaction patterns and infant social and emotional development as influenced by maternal and non-maternal infant care and by selected maternal and infant characteristics. Extensive data (including maternal attitude scores, demographic infomration, infant care observations, developmental test…

This is a partial report of a longitudinal investigation designed to assess the psychological effects of an experimentally conducted day care program on children during the first 30 months of life. The experimental subjects were Chinese and Caucasian children from working and middle class families who were cared for at a special group care center…

This publication includes reports of research on children in progress or recently completed from September 1972 through February 1973. Each entry includes information concerning the investigator, purpose, subjects, methods, duration, cooperating groups, and findings (if available). The reports are listed under several topical headings: (1)…

The manual, designed for two-day workshops with 20 to 40 State officials, is directed toward recognizing the special role that State officials have in initiating and furthering systematic or team efforts to cope with the drinking-driver. It is one of five workshop manuals developed to assist State and local agencies involved in the development of…

These guidelines describe areas of concern as indicated by recent litigation, questions received from local school districts, and complaints received from parents and students. They also present, as a frame of reference, the status of current school law where and as it applies to the area of students' rights and responsibilities. The document is…

Project activities involved: (1) examination of exploratory measures of social incompetency of junior high school adolescents, (2) development and trial of educational units designed in response to problems in black urban schools, and (3) a compilation and review of cross-sectional Test of Social Inference (TSI) data. Extensive test data was…

This guide for kindergarten teachers covers the following areas: (1) Understanding the Job--theory or philosophy of kindergarten education, about the child, the kindergarten teacher, social living in the kindergarten, aides and paraprofessionals; (2) Setting the Stage--facilities in the kindergarten, suggested equipment for kindergarten, the…

This document describes the instructional programs and results of a second major longitudinal intervention program carried out at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee, and addresses itself to different research questions and develops instructional programs considered more extensive and systematic than an earlier study, The…