This paper presents the results of a two-part survey that investigated elementary classroom teachers' awareness of the relevance of students' spelling performance to the identification of reading disability. In part one, 61 of 84 surveyed teachers of grades 2, 3, 4, and 5 (73%) and 16 of 22 school psychologists (73%) indicated that they do,…

Violence at school can have a significant impact on young people, affecting their mental health, academic achievement, and socialization and adjustment. This brief examines that impact. It begins by defining school violence and examining the prevalence of exposure to, and victimization from, violence at school within a developmental framework. The…

Argues that black psychologists must play a key role in changing attitudes and behavior if minorities are to succeed in the process of "revolutionizing" the system: black people must get themselves psychologically together, then teach their chaldren how to maintain the mental edge. (Author/JM)

The authors distributed questionnaires about the role of school psychologists to teachers, psychologists, and principals. They found that experienced teachers have higher expectations for more novel interventions such as in-school and in-class services, and that psychologists make different kinds of treatment recommendations depending upon…

Discusses the sexism inherent in the socialization of boys and girls by reviewing some of the research on sex differences in intellectual functioning, stereotypic sex roles, and sexism in the schools. Suggests ways in which school psychologists can help effect the liberation of both sexes. (SF)

Article focused on academic freedom and the right of academic persons to discuss ideas which they can defend by research and logic. (Author/RK)

With an increasing number of cases currently coming to the courts' attention to examine the conditions under which educational and psychological testing practices violate one's constitutional rights, this article considers the responses from school systems, professional organizations, the Federal Government, school psychologists, and the testing…

This study questions the use of a general IQ score as a basis for conclusions relating to studies of intelligence, especially with minority children. Instead, it looks at item-responses from Stanford-Binet tests. Using Guilford's Structure of Intellect Model applied to organismic responses, the authors tallied the item responses. (Author/LA)

To aid the staff of a public school for trainable mentally retarded elementary and secondary aged students, a consultant clinical psychologist was employed for a 2-year period. (Author/DB)

Author reviews a book on America's founder of research in child study, G. Stanley Hall, and suggests omissions which could have made it more interesting. (RK)

Contemporary researchers have either a materialistic orientation, represented by behaviorism, or a nonmaterialistic orientation, represented by phenomenology; both are similar in their concern with internal as opposed to external determinants a relatively recent ideological shift in psychological research. (Author/JM)

It is argued that developmental task analysis is of primary value in the psychoeducational programming of children with learning and behavioral problems. (Author)

Categorized, specific. (CJ)

Relates personal, largely unsuccessful, initial attempt at group therapy, with view toward lending support to novice counselors trying similar experiments. (CJ)

The paper presents data relating to changes in teacher choice of classroom management procedures, the frequency of passive, disruptive, and attending behavior for 20 criterion children over 26 days, and pre-post mean-gain achievement testing results on these children. (Author)