This full scale inquiry into English primary education is organized under (1) the growth of the child; (2) the home, school, and neighborhood; (3) the structure of primary education; (4) the children in the schools: curriculum and internal organization; (5) the adults in the schools; (6) independent schools; and (7) primary school buildings and…

To evaluate the Utah State Board of Education's Integrated Shop Program (ISP) for small rural high schools, 7 ISP schools in their 2nd year (1970-71) of the ISP were compared on 3 measures to 2 selected control schools (small rural high schools that offered vocational agricultural mechanics and industrial arts but did not offer formal courses in…

This evaluative research is concerned with specific educational programs which attempt to adapt instruction to individual differences. Attention is limited to the Frick School, a large urban Pittsburgh school in which the Learning Research and Development Center develops its new educational programs, and to the Follow-Through network where these…

The Pennsylvania Questionnaire combines in one document elementary and secondary attitudinal items which are intended to measure six of the ten goals of quality education for the state. Item groups include understanding others, interest in learning, citizenship, creativity, appreciation of human accomplishments, and preparation for the demands of…

Data presented in this study of the Academic Interest Measures (AIM) include score distributions for a national sample of high school juniors grouped by sex, ability, and curriculum (effects of socioeconomic status were found to be negligible); relationships between AIM and many other variables, such as ability test scores, students' ratings of…

On December 21, 1961 the Brazilian Congress passed the Law of Directives and Bases of National Education, implementing the educational provisions of the Constitution of 1946. This Law of 1961 was Brazil's first general education law and was widely publicized as decentralizing the administration of and the responsibility for Brazilian education,…

This paper describes a program designed to identify and measure creativity in school children. Individual differences in age, intelligence, and personality; teacher and student behavior; and instructional materials and processes are considered. (DLG)

This study gives a general description of the phenomena by which immigrants enter Canadian society, the culture they bring with them, and the degree to which they become acculturated through Canadian institutions, namely employment, and more particularly education. Canadian society is seen as a mosaic of various ethnic and minority groups in…

This study of vocabulary change investigates the regional vocabularies found in eight of the Southern states and seeks conclusions about the relative changes in uniformity in current local use. Assumptions, procedures, and techniques for research are presented here. The results reported were obtained from a printed vocabulary questionnaire…

In 1968, a random sample of 70 Wesleyan University juniors participated in a study designed to: 1) determine the extent of drug usage among students; 2) investigate the social and psychological characteristics of users and non- users of marijuana; 3) investigate the attitudes and motivations of persons who had reacted differently to the increasing…

This paper seeks to underline the importance of at least acknowledging the existence of a complex set of rules in a grammar of social interaction--and the further reality that while there may be a grammar of social interaction, there are also grammars of social interaction for different groups. It should be possible to find that apparently…

The first of a two-volume study of the relative accessibility of French vocabulary in French-speaking Canada presents statistical data concerning the frequency, distribution, valence, and accessibility of vocabulary related to 16 fundamental centers of interest found in normal conversation. The scope, procedures, and results of the study are…

The second of a two-volume study of the relative accessibility of French vocabulary in French-speaking Acadia, this study presents statistical data concerning the degree of difficulty of recall of vocabulary related to 16 fundamental centers of interest found in normal conversation. The data are derived from responses of 700 students ranging from…

Socialization patterns from a Hawaiian-American community are described in terms of the strategies and tactics utilized by Hawaiian-American children in dealing with the contingencies set for them first by their parents and later by teachers in the public school. Despite poor scholastic performance from the standpoint of educators, the viewpoint…

The child in the bilingual education situation must be aware of the two languages involved as two separate systems corresponding to the two distinct cultural entities that are part of his environment. The child must learn to separate, yet identify with, each system as a useful and necessary means of communication. The teacher-directed method is…