Reported is the development and use of an instrument designed to measure intellectual and humanistic aspects of attitudes towards teaching science. The instrument was validated by a factor analysis technique. Test-retest reliability for the instrument was determined to be 0.87. Using this instrument, two methods of elementary science instruction…

Children who are referred to mental health clinics in the preschool years pose problems for diagnosticians because of the lack of standardized instruments for assessing personality and measuring behavior of preschoolers. In response to this problem, the Children's Behavioral Classification Project has been extended into the preschool years and the…

Results of an interim evaluation of selected aspects of the Follow Through Program are described. Analyses are described for two cohorts: children entering the program in 1969 (2 year's data) and those entering in 1970 (1 year's data). Measures on program impact on the children included achievement, quantitative skill, language arts, cognitive…

Reported is a study on teacher's visually perceived nonverbal behaviors and their relationship to student's affective responses among 30 junior high teachers. Each teacher was requested to present a lesson at the front of the classroom. About 20 minutes of one of their classes were videotaped. Two 5-minute segments (episodes) and one 15-second…

A curriculum has been designed to teach the following 5 components of motivation to achieve in school: (1) affective, or enjoying school, (2) conceptual, or seeing oneself as a learner, (3) purposive, or goal setting, (4) instrumental, or actively moving toward goal attainment, and (5) evaluative, or self-assessing progress toward goals. Field…

Cooperation among individuals depends upon both the goal structure of the situation and the cooperative skills of the individuals. Since cooperation is probably the most important and basic form of human interaction, the skills of cooperation successfully are some of the most important skills a person needs to master. Cooperative skills include…

This study was designed to assess the relative effectiveness of one available guidance program at the elementary level, Developing Understanding of Self and Others (DUSO). The program is appropriate for young children, ages 5 through 8, and attempts through listening, inquiry, discussion, and role playing to help children better understand…

This reference book is designed for the social science researcher, the applied behavioral scientist, and other practitioners or researchers who need instruments measuring human behavior. The first section of the book provides reviews of 84 instruments designed to measure social functioning--38 oriented to personal variables (13…

A study was conducted to: (1) Continue the investigation of a new approach to measuring the affective dimension of experience, and (2) Present a description and documentation of the affective impact of the Urban Arts Program of the Minneapolis Public Schools. The procedure classifies and evaluates information gathered in the form of diaries; it is…

This book is a critical evaluation of A. S. Neill's contribution to educational theory and practice. The study includes some biographical material, but this material is introduced to provide a focus for Neill's ideas. The author devotes special attention to Neill's contributions to the psychological aspects of freedom within the social and…

Since many summer reading programs emphasize mechanical reading skills, it was felt that a less orthodox approach to summer reading instruction would yield more information on their relative effect on achievement. The experimenter avoided the usual emphasis on the development of a sequence of skills by devising a program of individualized, high…

The investigations focused on two main subject areas. The first series of experiments explored the validity of verbal association based inferences as an attitude measure and predictor of behavior. When compared with paper-and-pencil methods, the association based attitude index (EDI) showed high positive correlation as a group measure and medium…

Individual differences in self-attributions in a forced-compliance task and following manipulations of facial expressions were found to relate, suggesting that the self-attribution processes are similar and that variations among individuals in these processes are general across contents and inputs. (Author)

The value of a practicum as part of a reading methods course is explored through a questionnaire soliciting reactions of pupils and of student teachers. The statements gathered are interpreted as indicating that the experience has a positive effect on the attitudes of all participants. Classroom teachers are urged to allow their pupils to…

Based on a synopsis of research studies, the relationship of second language learning to affective factors, such as language shock, attitude motivation, ego permeability, etc., is examined. Also, it is suggested that affective variables may be more important than maturation in the problems of adults in learning a second language. (MS)