Summarizes recent studies based on the contingency model of leadership effectiveness, which suggest why research has failed to show that leadership training and experience increase organizational performance. The contingency model postulated that group performance depends on the match between situational favorableness, i.e., the leader's control…

In materials for educators working with children from ages 10-15, Farquhar Middle School served as a shooting location for 6 filmstrips on How To Manage an Individualized Program." Filmstrips were made by the Institute for the Development of Educational Activities (IDEA). (Editor)

The author contends that students must be alerted to the dangers of overpopulation of the world and to the methods that exist to control population growth. He suggests topics for student inquiry. (CK)

Author states that teacher- education students should have an opportunity to learn by methods of first-hand investigation and theme centered inquiry used by childrens, as a move toward the inter- disciplinary study they may be involved in as teachers. (Author)

Discusses the pros and cons of the open area school and examines independent study as a complement to group instruction as exemplified in the open area school. (Author/MM)

The effect of systematically including peer interaction trials during a group training session for two severely retarded adolescent students was studied. For two of the three skills, the student showed incidental learning of the skill presented just prior to the peer interaction trial. (Author/SEW)

Argues against the use of rigid syllabuses for the teaching of literature and advocates instead a seminar approach in which students are required to read and think beforehand, with one or two of them having been given specific assignments as stimuli to discussion. (HOD)

Describes a group project teaching technique that was used to teach a college-level social research methods course. Students, working in small groups, planned an original study, developed an instrument, and gathered data to test their hypotheses. Lectures and readings also comprised an important part of the course. (SR)

Reviews cooperative learning strategies (instructional strategies in which students work in small heterogenous groups to master academic content) that appear to effectively increase positive race relations and achievement in desegregated schools. (Author/GC)

Results of this 2-year study of an Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII demonstration project indicate that teaching a class of 43 second-grade children from a small rural community in west Texas in large groups is as effective as an individualized approach to bilingual education. (Author/RH)