The Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) has recently developed a new protocol for accrediting schools entitled "Focus on Learning" (FoL). This monograph explains how the FoL process can influence student learning and serve as a vehicle for school improvement and accountability. The following…

The hidden curriculum in the new social studies involves the classroom environment, the instructional situation, and the teacher's role. Higher-level questions, student expression, and absence of verbal dominance by the teacher are some of the factors compatible with the new social studies. (Author/KM)

Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) Verbal, Performance and Full Scale IQ's were compared for blacks and whites (matched in age, sex, geographic region, father's occupation, and urban-rural residence). Although whites had significantly higher verbal and Full Scale IQ's at all age levels, Performance IQ was significantly…

Presents the rationale for deliberate psychological education as a mode for individual, direct and developmental intervention in schools. Following the rationale, a detailed description is given of classroom learning experiences actually employed to achieve the overall objectives of psychological maturation of pupils. (LA)

Attempts to identify common assumptions which underlie introductory courses in organic chemistry, and relates these to some learning difficulties experienced by students. (Author/JR)

Considered the development of perceptual awareness in childhood, when habits of behavior are being formulated and response sets are being established. (Author/RK)

Author's main objective was to make it possible for students to enjoy creating through participating in musical experience rather than just reading the material. (Author/RK)

Examines some alternative approaches to teaching science in the elementary school, and in particular compares the attributes of instructional approaches to those of experimental approaches. (JR)

Author surveyed youth, boys and girls from the ages of 13 to 22, to determine what they considered important relative to their vocational preferences. (Author/RK)

Article presents guidelines for the use of computer assisted instruction. (Author/RK)

Describes a study unit involving research in the community by twelve year old students on mercy killing. Teacher accountability determined the outcome of the objectives. (JB)

The study found that concordance between a rule and a recent model's behavior was most effective in leading to acceptance of the rule, despite a tendency for the subject's to adopt lenient self-reinforcement criteria when given an opportunity to do so. (JB)

The EBCE task is to develop within three to five years a body of experience and research data that would document the feasibility of an entire alternative secondary education system, harnessed to the career education ideal and drawing its curriculum from the life of the adult community. (Authors)