Presents a model of teacher professional growth that views professional development as teacher learning. The model includes four analytic domains in which teacher change occurs, indicates potential relationships among change domains, and identifies mechanisms operating to produce these relationships. The article illustrates the model with data…

Examined college students' (n=276) definitions of social and problem drinking for male and female students in two common drinking situations. Results indicated that definitions of social and problem drinking were strongly influenced by drinking context, and estimates of amount opposite sex problem drinkers drank was greater than that for same sex…

Findings indicated that low levels of word recognition skills, which are characteristic of dyslexic children, persist into adulthood, particularly in terms of slow word recognition. Further, adults with childhood diagnoses of dyslexia do not use word-recognition processes that are appropriate for their age level or, in some cases, for their…

The relationship between moral judgment and moral actions as Kohlberg defined it is extended to include more comprehensive social psychological factors. (Author/BB)

Bateson's integrative multilevel approach to learning, which is based on a theory of communication, is discussed. Implications of Bateson's learning theory for a more integrated approach to behavioral change are considered. (IAH)

According to a recent survey, many veteran education faculty are unhappy about their work in its institutional context. Teacher educators possess low status within a reward system increasingly centered on research and publication. The challenge is to develop good teacher preparation programs while ignoring the glories of the research institution.…

Some experiments concerning concrete-operational Piagetian skills are discussed in light of the interbehavioral approach in order to highlight the interacting role of antecedent stimuli and the setting of events in complex cognitive behaviors. Conservation, class inclusion, and classification are considered. Implications for a theory of…

Hearing-impaired speechreaders focus on visual characteristics of speech sounds, termed visemes. Determination of viseme groupings requires consideration of the sound's visible characteristics and articulatory differences of speakers. Coarticulation effects that modify viseme groups include vowel-context effects on consonant viseme groupings,…

Argues that the cultural analysis in Merten's (PS 524 830) article must consider meanings used by cultural participants to shape and evaluate their own and their peers' actions. Emphasizes emic categories as an opening to understanding rejection. Suggests that knowing more about variables will not necessarily further understanding of rejection…

Discussion of constructivism and instructional design focuses on the development of a design model for constructivist environments that supports the construction of knowledge, a meaningful context for learning, and collaboration among learners and with the teacher. Differences between constructivist and objectivist approaches are considered.…

A form of autosuggestibility in which children's answers to memory tests were shifted in the direction of their illogical solutions to reasoning problems was studied in 5 experiments with 396 primary-grade students. A model of how gist intrusion causes autosuggestibility is developed. (SLD)

Gender differences in reported anger and fear toward hypothetical males and females were explored in 120 6- to 12-year olds, 129 14- to 16-year olds, and 178 adults. Anger-producing or frightening situations or those depicting male stereotypic behaviors elicited the most gender consistent differences. (SLD)

Presents a practical, multimodal Helping model, to meet needs of children with anger. Describes the steps to be followed in each of the 12 sessions of the therapy. Notes that the model adheres to a person-centered philosophy. The model considers the health, emotional, learning, personal, and cognitive environments of the child during therapy, and…

The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) results of 1,200 students in 9 British secondary schools in 1 district were subjected to multilevel modeling to derive school effectiveness measures. The relative ordering of schools changed markedly depending on the output measure and student factors. Ranking based solely on GCSE results was…

In two experiments, preschool children and adults were asked to judge which way an equilateral triangle was pointing under several contextual conditions. Results indicated that children and adults attended to both global and local levels of a pattern. (BC)