Determines patterns of drug usage and related behavior of college, university, and junior college students on a state-wide basis. This article focuses on sex as it relates to the total pattern of drug abuse of nine specific substances among a large group of college students and examines results in terms of both practical and statistical…

Article discusses two opposing models that have been developed to explain what happens when a child is exposed to violence. (GB)

Authors queried students as to their attitudes toward teachers and how they are influenced by them. (RK)

This study is an attempt to discover predictors of examination averages and marijuana usage from factors derived from 70 biographic and personality variables. The sample consisted of 521 students living in residence at the University of Alberta. The 70 variables included the first-order personality factors from Form A of Cattell's (1962) 16PF…

Article focused on student attitudes and practices concerning higher education and presented statements by students in reaction to questions such as, "How do you make good grades without putting in too much time?" (Author/RK)

Discussion of student motivation and participation, emphasizing the teacher's role in managing students' behavior. (ST)

Author's advice to inner city principals is to develop some foresight, be prepared, and anticipate action. (Editor/CB)

This study describes how a graduate student in counseling and guidance worked with a team of teachers in implementing a group-contingent reinforcement system with first graders. The group contingencies proved highly effective in increasing the percentage of work completed and reducing disruptive responses. (Author)

This paper is an attempt to show the difference in the course of treatment of two successive groups of university students which functioned significantly differently in the manner and degree to which they examined defenses and manifested transference problems. (Author)

A method for reducing multivariate descriptions of college environments to a two-dimensional configuration is briefly described. (Author)

Paper examines research information on the attitudes and practices of the college student regarding contraceptives. It discusses the types and use of contraceptives, origin of information on contraception, reasons for abstinence by sexually active students, and the degree of communication between sexual partners on contraceptive techniques.…

This study was concerned with relationships between personality traits of third-grade children and the extent to which the children showed problem behavior in the classroom. In addition, relations among personality traits, IQ, and absence records were determined. (Author)

Conclusion is that it is not necessary to record the behavior of every pupil or an entire class in order to adequately measure a specific dimension of the classroom. Rather, observational efficiency can be attained through the utilization of sampling procedures for a given type of classroom situation. (Authors)

Author stresses legislation to completely eliminate corporal punishment in schools. (GB)