Reviews literature relating to socioeconomic status among high school students in order to develop a model to explain how the average SES level in a school may influence the educational plans of 3,050 individual students in 18 high schools. Findings are presented. (Author/DB)

Shows how differences among types of professional schools can be explained on the basis of systematic research, using empirical data on a large sample of professional schools and analytical properties of the professions for which the schools provide training. (Author/CK)

Describes research testing the hypothesis that complex technologies (or teaching methods) generate more complex organizational structures. Uses two sets of longitudinal data from San Francisco elementary schools. (CK)

Assesses teacher education programs to determine possible improvements. Findings indicate that recommendations of teacher education graduates are the best sources of information for program alteration. For journal availability, see SO 505 397. (Author/DB)

Evaluates some reasons for the increase of Catholics who disagree with papal encyclicals and for the decline of practicing Catholics. Provides suggestions that could improve the situation and possibly reverse the current trend of Catholics disassociating themselves from the Church. (Author/RK)

The influence of intellectual competition on the self-esteem of average intellectual ability adolescents attending high ability suburban schools is the subject of this study. Examines how students perceive themselves after nine years of competition with peers of higher intelligence. (Author/RK)

The recent drop in public faith in educational leaders does not mean that all segments of the public are disenchanted with America's schools. (Editor/RK)

Examines the dialogue communication behavior of a group of chronic, male schizophrenics and demonstrates a relation between these same indices of communication behavior and types of anxiety expression. (Editor/RK)

The premise of equipotentiality, which has been widely adhered to among learning theorists, states that the laws of learning should not vary with the use of particular stimuli, responses, or reinforcements. Investigates this premise. (Editor/RK)

The role of body-image boundary definiteness as a mediating personality variable in interpersonal spatial behavior under conditions of perceived threat was investigated. It was hypothesized that personal space would be positively correlated with body-image boundary definiteness. (Editor)

Focuses on the opinions of superintendents regarding their attitudes toward theoretical formulations of organizational behavior. (Author/RK)

The relative merits of several methods, Bayesian and classical, for the estimation of student mastery are investigated. (Editor)

Two arguments against the Hansen-Weisbrod study (which stated that subsidies in California public higher education discriminate against students from lower income families) are presented: (1) comparison should be based on the age of the family head (35-60 years), and (2) student financial aid should be added to tuition subsidies. (Author/EC)

To analyze salary differentials between male and female non-academic university employees, data were collected on age, education, sex, marital status, years at the university, and job. An analysis based on the job title, the Manpower Administration classification scheme, and the authors' classification reveal that women earn less than men. (EC)

This article contains an annotated version of a comprehensive final examination given to an intermediate graduate level college course in data analysis. The author thinks a final examination in a data analysis course ought to test students' abilities to evaluate contemporary empirical political research. (Author/RM)