Author attempts to evaluate the possibilities or agreement that might be reached in interpreting the various aims of moral education. (RK)

Emphasizing immediacy of time and place of an experiment, operant behaviorism neglects the polymorphism of learning channels, social influence, exchange over time (diachrony) and over space (arbitrage), and institutions, and its proposed solutions disregard the complexities of culture. (Author/MB)

The roots of the American testing movement lie deeply imbedded in the American progressive temper which combined its belief in progress, its racial attitudes and its faith in the scientific-expert working through the state authority to ameliorate and control the evolutionary progress of the race. (Author)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Findings suggest that, if curiosity is to be developed meaningfully in the schools, affective development must be fostered at the same time that cognitive skills are taught. (Authors)

The social skills of 119 learning disabled (LD) high school students was compared to that of 60 nonhandicapped adolescents and 57 court adjudicated juvenile delinquent adolescents, The non-LD youths performed significantly better than the other two groups of youths on seven of the eight skills. (Author/SEW)

Results suggested that LD adolescents do not automatically generalize recently learned social skills to novel role playing situations and the natural environment. Also, high performance in a novel role playing situation does not necessarily mean that a student will show a correspondingly high performance in the natural environment. (Author/SEW)

Compares patterns of friendship in infants, toddlers, and preschool children who attended either a child-care center or a program for emotionally disturbed children. Younger children had fewer and more stable friendships; emotionally disturbed children limited friendships to single partners. Complexity of social interaction increased most within…

The study identified a common core of behaviors as perceived by 50 elementary teachers who work with socially and emotionally disordered (S-ED) students. The behaviors ranked as most detrimental were those describing active and/or aggressive actions. When these behaviors are exhibited, elementary teachers perceive them to be detrimental to…

Field independence at preschool age (3 1/2 years) was tested and regressed on measures of 24 children's social and exploratory behaviors and on measures of maternal interaction behaviors during infancy and preschool. Children's exploratory behaviors' and mothers' behaviors were not predictive of cognitive style, but social behaviors were.…

Presents an inner city early intervention program based on a social competence conceptualization. Key elements of the school-based program and an evaluation are described. The program focuses on children's competencies and problems in assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Ratings by teachers indicated interventions improved competencies, but…

Intrinsic motivation is discussed as the main concern of evaluation of leisure and recreational programs. Two factors influencing leisure behavior are perceived freedom and perceived competence. Two types of intrinsic rewards are possible from leisure participation: rewards and those obtained from a change in environment. Evaluation should then…

Conflict is examined in relation to the situation in which it occurs, by the goals toward which it is directed, by the inherent human costs and benefits of its employment, and in terms of the intentions of the participants in the process. (MLW)

Presented are some considerations relating to the problem of why human studies is still regarded as a new subject and why resistance to human studies as a new subject is so great. (PB)