This article, the third in a series, examines 114 outdoor education-related fatalities in Australia in the period 1960-2002. It reviews the environmental circumstances in which fatalities have occurred and the extent to which environmental circumstances contributed to fatal incidents. All of the accidental deaths (105) could be linked to…

Reports a study designed to assess the correlation of science knowledge and science attitude of third-year preservice elementary teachers (N=92) using Christman's Science From Concepts Achievement Test (SFCAT) and Shrigley's Science Attitude Scale for Preservice Teachers. A low positive correlation was found to exist between science attitude and…

Religiosity is a complex concept and difficult to define for at least two reasons. The first reason is the uncertainty and imprecise nature of the English language. Colloquially, in "Roget's Thesaurus" (Lewis, 1978), religiosity is found to be synonymous with such terms as religiousness, orthodoxy, faith, belief, piousness, devotion, and holiness.…

In a study of food preferences of deaf teenagers in a school for the deaf, students preferred meats, fruits, and desserts over vegetables. They had fewer "correct" and more "incorrect" and "don't know" responses to food and nutrition knowledge statements than hearing students. (Editor/JR)

This study reports on the effect of a multimedia presentation upon student knowledge levels concerning physical education program offerings at a university no longer requiring participation in the program. The study sought to (a) develop an objective test to measure student knowledge about the University of North Carolina/Greensboro General…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate cognitive growth of elementary school students (K-6) in an integrated dental health education program. The project was initiated by the Rural Dental Health Program in a rural Pennsylvania community. The sample population of the research project consisted of 1,917 students from nine elementary schools in…

Two contrasting views of the form and structure of knowledge are discussed -- an audiovisual model vs a computer tape library. The importance of two distinct psychological systems to represent language and knowledge of the world is stressed. (AM)

The research effort focused on the communication needs of school professionals and parents of handicapped children. The research sample, drawn from a 20 county area of North Central Texas, was comprised of 447 parents/advocates of the handicapped and 606 school professionals (special teachers and mainstream teachers) serving the handicapped in…

A continuing debate among those studying the Holocaust in Europe during the Nazi era is when Americans first learned of the mass murder of Jews being carried out in the extermination camps. Historians suggest that Americans had been made skeptical of charges of German brutality by World War I "atrocity propaganda," and that the language…

The effectiveness of an educational intervention program in increasing the parenting skills and knowledge of adolescents with infants was evaluated. The early part of the program consisted of an "informal" group which received individual counseling without a formal curriculum. This group consisted of 29 mothers whose babies were two months of age,…

THE ROLE OF THE LANGUAGE ARTS IN EDUCATING CITIZENS FOR THE FUTURE IS DISCUSSED. IT IS IMPERATIVE TO HELP CITIZENS DEVELOP ABILITIES AND SKILLS WHICH WILL ENABLE THEM TO COPE WITH LIFE'S PROBLEMS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD. KNOWLEDGE, A SENSE OF VALUES, SELF-INVOLVEMENT, AND A SENSE OF WONDER SHOULD BE DEVELOPED IN TODAY'S STUDENTS SO THAT HE…

THIS TWO PART STUDY ASSESSED THE EXTENT OF DRINKING AMONG REPRESENTATIVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AND THEIR SOURCES OF ALCOHOL, DETERMINED THE KINDS OF INFORMATION ABOUT ALCOHOL HELD BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN GENERAL, AND SURVEYED THE KNOWLEDGE AND BACKGROUNDS OF TEACHERS WHO TEACH ABOUT ALCOHOL IN THEIR CLASSES. FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE STUDY,…