Since there is a moderate positive correlation between behavior and self-esteem, a teacher who desires to modify the classroom behavior of a student should follow a procedure that is congruent with enhancing and maintaining the student's self-attitude. (Author)

Critically reviews the existing literature on the effects of school desegregation on race relations and student attitudes, and discusses the critical issues that should influence future research in this area. Available from Duke University Press, Box 6697 College Station, Durham, NC 27708. (Author/IRT)

Elementary school teachers were asked to describe a third-grade child and their attitudes about working with the child, based upon case reports which described either a boy or a girl, and sex-consistent or inconsistent behaviors. Sex-inappropriate behavior was viewed less favorably than sex-appropriate behavior. (GDC)

The major difference between individualized and traditional instruction methods is the pattern of student interaction with the teacher, with the classmates, and with the learning materials. (JN)

Reports a survey of elementary and middle school teachers regarding behaviors they perceived as signalling a lack of communicative competence on the part of students. Results indicate, that from a teacher's point of view, communication competence involves a complex of behaviors including attitudinal/motivational, as well as cognitive dimensions.…

On the premise that "anxiety" and "achievement motivation" may be indicative of coping strategies, questionnaire measures of these traits plus academic tests were administered to 956 British pupils taught by teachers representing formal, informal, and mixed teaching styles. For part two of this study, classroom behavior, see AA…

Explored behaviors of students at various times during an examination to examine the relationship between test anxiety and test performance. Results indicated that low test anxious students differed significantly on all eight dependent variables with the level of test anxiety having a significant effect. (Author)

A Western Carolina experiment examined what kinds of data could be obtained from students that could (1) help make physical facility planning more objective and factual and (2) determine what the academic or learning consequences of these decisions might be. Focus was on student use of time and facilities. (Author/MLW)

The purpose of this study was to describe the effects of teacher expectations on specific teacher behaviors and student behaviors during physical education instruction. (MM)

Summarizes the results of a study which identified discipline problems in fifty vocational agriculture classes of student teachers and beginning teachers. Reviews effective and ineffective ways to handle discipline problems in the classroom. (LRA)

A representative sample of 347 college men and women were queried on their experience with premarital sex. Responses were correlated to subjects' self-reported philosophy of sex, relationship with parents, physical attractiveness, religious feelings, drug use, commitment to last sexual partner, and attitudes toward marriage and women's liberation.…

In this study the effect of the Vocational Exploration Group on high school students was investigated, using measures of attitude, information-seeking behaviors and knowledge of interests and skills. Analyses of variance showed that treatment subjects had significantly higher scores on the knowledge measure than did control subjects. (Author)

Functioning as a researcher, a second-grade teacher evaluated the effectiveness of puppetry in the reduction of student arguments and teacher intervention in those arguments. The teacher defined and observed the behaviors to be changed, designed and implemented the puppet intervention, and then observed the behaviors again, noting reductions in…

Reviews and evaluates the current research on the use of home-based reinforcement programs to modify both disruptive and academic behaviors in the classroom. (Author/MP)

Describes and evaluates a university psychology course which provides an academic and personal look at drinking and problem drinking. The structure of the course encompasses three phases: lecture, seminar, and student presentation. (Author/KC)