This study examined the relative effectiveness of different media in presenting modeling stimuli to adult trainees in a supervisory skills training program and assessed their satisfaction with the training and their performance. Eighty undergraduate students were randomly assigned to one of four conditions--audio only, text only, audio plus text,…

The selective learning hypothesis holds that individuals' learning of prose passages will be affected in varying ways by the passages' threatening or unpleasant content. To test this hypothesis, 19 college students read six prose passages--three containing threatening material and three nonthreatening--and then completed a cloze test for each…

TWO HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) NO SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF EXPECTATIONS FOR THE FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD ROLE AND THE LEVEL OF LOCAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AND (2) NO SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIP EXISTS BETWEEN THE LEVEL OF EXPECTATIONS FOR SELECTED EXPENDITURES AND THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR THESE…

IN A STUDY THAT WAS PRIMARILY CORRELATIONAL IN NATURE, RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EVALUATORS' ATTITUDES TOWARD EDUCATION AND PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHING BEHAVIOR WERE DETERMINED BY ADMINISTERING QUESTIONNAIRES TO OVER 3,000 ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY TEACHERS AND GRADUATE STUDENTS OF EDUCATION FROM INDIANA, MICHIGAN, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, TEXAS, AND…

The premise that additional cooperation between the librarian and classroom teacher promoted acquisition of library skills, was investigated. The mutually exclusive subhypotheses were also tested. Twenty senior high school students in two small Mono County, California high schools served as the target population for the study. The experimental…

This study was intended to assess the response of educational administrators to crises by measuring the degree that school superintendents vary their responses according to the characteristics of a crisis. A questionnaire was developed, pilot-tested, and revised, then sent to all 39 school superintendents in Rhode Island. The resulting data were…

Utilizing data derived from survey questionnaires administered during 1968 to 427 white high school senior males, the following hypotheses were tested: (1) no class differentials exist with regard to the proportion in each class who place a high value on success; and (2) of those respondents who value success highly, a larger proportion of higher…

The intent of this investigation was to perform a validation study to determine whether RACE (Racial Attitude and Cultural Expression test) differentiates between primary grade students identified as having negative and positive attitudes. Students were categorized by a combination of administrator, teacher and clinical assessment into a negative…

Reported in this document is the development of nine instruments designed to measure social values thought to be "important in the interpersonal relationships" of adolescents and in their relationships with parents and teachers. The instruments sought to measure selected prescriptive values, "some of the social backgrounds for the acquisition of…

To test the hypothesis that the social nature of the pupil team-learning situation differs in a number of respects from nongraded and conventionally graded classroom situations, sociometric response data were analyzed from 581 students, comprising 20 classrooms in grades 7 through 12 in four western New York rural schools. The sociometric device…

A mailed questionnaire survey of public high schools in California and Oregon was conducted to determine if differences exist in the length of tenure and the recruitment of personnel in schools stratified on the basis of adoption of four innovations: Teacher aides, team teaching, variation in class size, and variation in length of class period.…

Jackson County, West Virginia, a rural county which was industrialized in 1956, was reported on in 1966. Natives of the county, characterized by traditional patterns of behavior, and in-migrants, characterized by rational patterns, were compared regarding educational values and attitudes. The basic hypothesis of this study was that the in-migrants…

This essay examines flaws in the standard hypothetical-deduction inquiry model and offers another quite different model of inquiry, the multiple-completing model, for use in the school classroom. In positing this new model of inquiry the assumption has been made that a pedagogical inquiry model need not necessarily be an accurate reflection of…

This study investigates the possibility that the reinforcement strength of stimuli can be enhanced by observational learning as well as by pairing with unconditioned reinforcers. The reinforcement strengths of two candies were determined for 40 preschool children as measured by rate of response on a button pressing apparatus. The children then…

This report presents an investigation of three hypotheses concerning facial expressions in young children: (1) children seem to emit the same number of changes in facial expressions when they are alone as when they are in contact with another person; (2) the number of facial expressions made when children are along, compared with when they are in…