Describes how two self described "optimistic feminist teachers" soon realized how difficult it is to combat elementary students' ingrained views of gender and power roles. Explores how creative drama could be used to explore gender assumptions, and which pedagogical techniques can help prevent gender bias in the classroom. Notes the teachers…

Asserts that knowing how children develop is essential to understanding their behavior. Describes role of schools and school boards in addressing student behavior problems related to child development. (PKP)

Examines decision reliability associated with estimates of risk status for 114 first grade students. The study focused on social behaviors as measured by the School Social Behavior Scales and Social Skills Rating System. Overall, the decision reliability between the two measures was moderate when social behaviors were rated by the teacher and low…

Greek-letter organizations continue to face the challenge of closing the gap between the high standards they profess to espouse and the inappropriate behaviors of their members. Resources are available, however, to help senior student-affairs officers and Greek members to develop standards and expectations. (Author)

Examined 188 preschool teachers' perceived control over child behavior. Found that high perceived control was related to teachers' high intentions for action in child behavior problems. Job satisfaction, center quality, social recognition, and satisfaction with education were related to perceived control. Perceived control mediated relationship…

Discusses changes in the content of teacher education programs that would prepare teachers to effectively address student violence, discussing the influence of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, recommending that colleges of education assume leadership roles in preparing school personnel to combat student aggression, and noting the…

Described the participation styles of college students enrolled in two basic weight training classes. Participation styles fell onto a continuum between slackin' and sweatin'. Observation and interview data indicated that there were four participation styles in the slackin' category and two in the sweatin' category. The transtheoretical model for…

Investigated whether male sexual drive discourse themes in heterosexual dating could be reproduced in a laboratory and whether those themes could be disrupted via laboratory intervention. Single, heterosexual college students role played various dating scenarios under differing conditions (dominant discourse themes and disrupted dominant discourse…

Examined trends in cigarette smoking among high school students in 11 states that collected Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data during the 1990s. Student self-reports indicated that in 6 states, the prevalence of current smoking and frequent smoking increased. For five smoking behaviors, trends among students in most of the states were…

Examined gender differences in the consistency of attributions over time, general attributional style, and explanations for performance in a college course. Student surveys showed no differences in general attributional style by gender, nor interactions between gender and accuracy in predicting course performance on participants' perceptions of…

"Moral" or "character" education is neither a discrete, afterthought curriculum nor an unreflective community-service activity. Grappling with thorny dilemmas and the meanings of civil behavior is not beyond adolescents. Few issues can be persuasively reduced to sharply painted absolutes. Small-group discussion of these issues…

Examines self-handicapping and defensive pessimism, the factors that predict these strategies, and the associations between these strategies and a variety of academic outcomes. Findings reveal that task orientation negatively predicts both self-handicapping and defensive expectations and positively predicts reflectivity. Students high in…

Study surveys students taking stimulant medication for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder about their experiences and attitudes related to their treatment with the medication. Although the students reported that the medication helped them somewhat in the areas of behavior, social ability with friends, parents, and teachers, and attention,…

Evaluates the violence prevention effects of The Peacemakers Program , a school-based intervention. The program includes a primary prevention component delivered by teachers and a remedial component implemented by school psychologists and counselors. Results reveal significant, positive program effects on six of the seven variables assessed,…

Investigated whether correlates of substance use changed across historical time. A high degree of consistency was found across historical time in predictors of past month cigarette or alcohol use and past year marijuana or cocaine use. Some predictors were consistently linked to substance use. Consistency of other predictors was contingent upon…