The study examined the effect of increased teacher-wait-time in increasing frequency of responses of two developmentally delayed 2 1/2-year-olds. Teacher wait-time of 5 seconds was found to be superior to teacher wait-time of 1 second in both frequency of response and accuracy of response. (Author/DB)

This study assessed the stability of student/teacher interactional behavior over one academic year. A total of 52 classes with the same teacher were observed, and teaching behavior was quantified using the Cheffer Adaptation of Flanders Interaction Analysis System. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

In August 1984, each member of the entering freshman class at Clarkson University received a Zenith Data Systems Z-100 PC desktop computer. Although there have been some problems (such as losing homework due to one power failure), results of a student survey indicate overall positive attitudes toward the experience. (JN)

A teacher discusses an English class' response to Solzhenitsyn's novel "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" and the controversial film, "Scum." (HOD)

Examines the influence of abstract art on children's book illustration and considers the child's response. (HOD)

Describes a course designed to teach written business communications in a simulated business environment. Summarizes student response to the course. (AEA)

Described are reactions to a game in which students establish social groups, detail their governing principles, and identify and cope with deviant behaviors. (GW)

Reflection requires time. In one class, students were asked to engage in a process of written reflection about the writing they had done immediately after they prepared their papers, as they sat in class preparing to hand in those papers. Reflective writing, which Peter Elbow and Pat Belanoff call "process writing," appears throughout…

This paper presents and discusses the responses of a class of first-grade students and a class of fourth-grade students to the elements of psychological maltreatment in the fairy tales "Cinderella" and "The Twelve Months." Responses of the first-grade students indicate that both boys and girls felt that the fairy tale heroine let herself be…

This paper contends that students who are learning to use computers can benefit from having an overview of the history and social context of computers. The paper highlights some milestones in the history of computers, from ancient times to ENIAC to Altair to Bill Gates to the Internet. It also suggests some things for students to think about and…

Junior high school students from one school were asked to list the things they liked and disliked about school in order to develop an instrument for assessing the attitudes of junior high school students in a different school. (HMD)

Article suggested four characteristics which are vital to the maturation process of the artist and discussed the real meaning of talent. (Author/RK)

The teaching procedures and class activities used in a consumer education course at John Marshall High School, Los Angeles, California, are briefly discussed. Both teacher and students responded enthusiastically to the course. (Author/RM)

Since one of the teacher's primary aims is to build a student's confidence in his own ability, teaching poems which are lyric and readily accessible is a good way to begin a poetry unit. (Author/RB)

Author discusses common sense, reasoning processes, and the scheduling of examinations and their predictability. (RK)