Studied the performance of procrastinating students enrolled in both a self-paced engineering course and a teacher-paced mathematics course. Concluded that student procrastination does not relate to student performance or type of pacing. (MLH)

An overview is presented of systematic behavioral analysis as a method for modifying both social and cognitive behaviors through reinforcement. Various techniques are explained: response differentiation, shaping, chaining, fading, extinction, timeout, and response cost. (SJL)

Needs of teachers and students occasionally conflict. The problem can be solved if the teacher is able to communicate his or her needs, respect students' needs and rights, and show confidence in their ability to be highly adaptable problem solvers. (JD)

Examines the relationship between teacher perceptions of student behavior and children's academic achievement at different levels of intelligence, social status, and family environment. Data were collected as part of a national survey of 11-, 12-, and 15-year-old English school children. (BD)

Strategies that may be used to evaluate and record the progress of students and ways of enlisting parents' aid and understanding of problems are discussed. (JD)

The traditional view of academic life is that students undergo recurring patterns of stress. In an attempt to investigate this notion, data were collected from five different student services. A common pattern was found, showing higher rates of stress during the first semester. (Author)

Changing social values, recent court decisions, inconsistency in thought and action, and consolidation of schools into massive factories are some of the factors that relate to the problem of student discipline. Some solutions are suggested. (Author/MLF)

One of the major strategies utilized to address the problem of suspension and expulsion in High Point, North Carolina schools was the establishment of alternative learning centers in each junior high school. (Author/MLF)

Recent surveys of drug use in the secondary schools indicate cigarettes, marihuana, and alcohol as being the three drugs most frequently used by male and female high school seniors. (MA)

This study investigated the relationship between teacher referral and pupil self-referral relative to perceived school adjustment of 417 4th grade pupils. The results suggest that a significant relationship exists between teacher referral and pupil self-referral. (Author)

Forty teachers, grades one to three, successfully manipulated the behavior of withdrawn children, using a socially desirable set of instructions under conditions of high teacher motivation to influence their target pupil's behavior. The teachers were unable to decrease inappropriate behavior in disruptive children. (Author/CP)

From a sample of eighth-grade pupils, 96 class clowns were identified and compared to a sample of 237 nonclown classmates. Clowns were predominantly males, and were seen by their teachers to be higher than nonclowns in Asserting, Unruliness, Attention Seeking, Leadership, and Cheerfulness, and to be lower in Accomplishing. (Author/CP)

Teachers use punishment for undesirable behavior more frequently in response to male students than female students. (JD)

Both technical health words and common health words produce communication blockages in college sex education classes. (MM)