Looking at holiday observances and patterns of contact and interaction among kinsmen, this paper examines the values middle class people hold about both close and distant kinsmen and investigates how consistent their actual behavioral patterns are to these expressed values. A questionaire was constructed and administered to a class of…

This check list provides a method for observing and recording the development of children aged 1 to 6 and handicapped children in six categories of skills: gross motor development, fine motor development, social, self help, cognitive, and language. The scoring system is designed to provide information on the rate of development in each category;…

This manual describes the Learning Accomplishment Profile (LAP), a check list, and tells how it is administered, scored, and used to evaluate children's skill development and rate of development. The items were drawn from a number of well-known assessment tools, and measure skills appropriate for normal children aged 1-6 and handicapped children.…

Variations in classroom instruction were observed, and related to student achievement in reading and mathematics. A six-construct model was applied to data on students and instructional practices in sixty second grade classrooms at nine geographic sites, seven of which were sponsored by Project Follow-Through. The constructs were: (l) initial…

Until recently, research on management and careers typically examined white, middle-class male subjects. Patterns, norms, and career problems brought to light by this research are not necessarily applicable to wider populations. When studies on women did appear, at first they were typically more polemical than scientific; they sought to prove…

Correlations indicating the direction and magnitude of relationships between measures of classroom processes and residual scores on the Metropolitan Achievement Test are presented and discussed for second and third grade classrooms. Many of the findings are differentiated according to the socioeconomic status of the pupils and the context of the…

Recent investigations have demonstrated greater variance in change in intellectual performance between different generations or age groups than is true for generalized developmental change across chronological age. Such findings have led to a careful investigation of certain environmental factors which might account for such change. A new…

This seventh in a series of nine learning modules on instructional management is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in identifying and using classroom procedures to develop self-discipline in students, and in developing the type of environment which allows learning to take place. The terminal objective for the…

Alternative theoretical approaches influencing the research design of the Beginning Teacher Evaluation Study are discussed. One line of research used an Experimental Teaching Unit (ETU) to create a semi-standardized situation for comparison of teachers. Though this approach introduces a uniformity which appears to increase comparability, it is at…

Fifteen teachers from grades one through twelve and sixty pupils were sampled using a contextual approach to the investigation of teachers' verbal and nonverbal behavior. Pupils were categorized as accepting, concerned, indifferent, or rejecting by their respective teachers, and the student-initiated question frame was selected as a suitable and…

The seven scales of Self-regard are: Purposeful learning of skills, Completing tasks, Coping with fears, Children's responses to requests, Dealing with frustrations, Socially acceptable behavior, and Developing imagination in play. Together they assess developmental levels of an integrated self-regard or Self-concept. This third edition of the…

To assess the impact of various rating scale formats in rating student teachers, a Likert-type scale (Highly agree/slightly agree/neither/slightly disagree/highly disagree) was derived from the graphic scale currently used by the cooperating teachers and university supervisors. They rated the music student teachers on an eight-point scale from…

This instructor's manual is designed to assist instructors in the teaching of a half-course in vocational development theory. (The course is geared toward diploma or graduate students in counselor education.) Included in the manual are the following materials: an introduction to a companion student's manual, answers and suggestions for questions…

This social studies framework for grade two is intended to help teachers develop programs best suited to their students' needs. The two main sections to the guide are a teacher notebook and a syllabus. The teacher notebook elaborates on the key features of the program, suggesting relevant classroom applications. Discussed are concept and skill…

This teaching guide is a part of those materials developed for the Work Maturity Skills Training Program. (The Work Maturity Skills Training Program is a set of individualized competency-based units that are designed to help participants develop the competencies they need to find and retain jobs.) Following a brief description of the purpose and…