AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO IDENTIFY SOME OF THE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL VARIABLES DIFFERENTIATING CHILDREN WHO ARE HIGH IN CURIOSITY FROM THOSE WHO ARE LOW. THREE MAJOR QUESTIONS WERE EXAMINED WHICH LED TO THE FORMULATION OF 18 HYPOTHESES. THE QUESTIONS WERE--(1) DO CHILDREN OF HIGH CURIOSITY DIFFER FROM CHILDREN OF LOW CURIOSITY IN SELF-ADJUSTMENT AND…

AN INQUIRY (SPECIFIC DISCOVERY) APPROACH TO LEARNING WAS SUBJECTED TO A RIGOROUS TEST AND EVALUATION PROGRAM, INVOLVING ELEMENTARY INSTRUCTION IN THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. STUDENTS IN THE FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH GRADES SERVED AS SUBJECTS. EVALUATIVE CRITERIA WERE (1) SCIENCE CONCEPT ACHIEVEMENT, (2) DIVERGENT THINKING OR CREATIVITY, AND (3)…

This study investigates how 40 working-class women participate as volunteers in the service, political, and social action arenas of their community--Carondelet, on the South Side of St. Louis. The purpose is to show that working-class women who live in transitional areas are capable of politically addressing the urban problems intruding into their…

The first section of this handbook defines terms and Federal regulations that deal with equal educational and employment opportunities, sex and racial discrimination, and affirmative action. The next two sections present current definitions of minority groups and fact sheets on sex and race discrimination with an emphasis on employment practices…

A fundamental worldwide trend of the past few decades has been the remarkable expansion of national systems of formal education. Two competing theories have been adduced to explain how this expansion affects patterns of equality of educational opportunity. The thesis of industrialization holds that educational expansion tends to increase equality…

Several theories of the alcoholic personality have been devised to determine the relationship between the clusters of personality characteristics of alcoholics and their abuse of alcohol. The oldest and probably best known theory is the dependency theory, formulated in the tradition of classical psychoanalysis, which associates the alcoholic's…

Variables related to children's interest in and play experiences with fire and fire-producing materials were explored in this study. Information for the study was obtained from samples of public school children and their parents. The samples were drawn from the communities of Oakland and Hayward, California, and included 70 boys and 69 girls and…

This paper examines the role of parents and friends (reference groups) in forming college students' sex-role orientations. Emphasis is placed on the mother's domestic, parental, and achieved (professional/occupational) role and on the mother's modeling transmission effect on her daughter's and son's sex-role attitudes. The hypothesis is that…

BORN FREE is a project designed as a collaborative effort of university-based counseling psychologists and field-site educators to reduce career-related sex stereotyping in 14 educational institutions. This is the second-year evaluation of the project. The report introduction states the purpose and organization of the report, describes the…

A review of literature and research on rural education in England indicated declining enrollments coupled with severe government restraints on public expenditures are impacting upon the maintenance and orientation of rural English schools. Investigation of research on the education of girls with specific reference to academic achievement and work…

This curriculum guide is designed for teaching health education to eighth graders but can be modified for use with high school students. The curriculum is divided into four units: 1) mental health, 2) physical health, 3) social health, and 4) behavior patterns. The classroom objectives in each unit are accompanied by teaching strategies and…

Studies on the portrayal of minorities, older persons, and females in elementary and secondary school textbooks used in the 1970s are reviewed in this publication. The studies are divided into the following categories: American Indians, blacks, Hispanics, Asian and Pacific Island Americans, religious groups, older persons, and females. In the…

This issue of the "Equal Opportunity Review" is devoted to an annotated bibliography to be used as a guide to recent literature on urban and minority education accessible through the ERIC system. The following topics are addressed in the bibliography: (1) integration and urban life (46 citations); (2) bilingual, bicultural, and multicultural…

This summary provides an overview of Project OPTION, designed to reduce the influence of sex role stereotyping on student career choice; to increase student, parent, school, and community awareness of the negative consequences of sex bias; and to promote sex-fair and sex-affirmative teaching strategies. The materials include: (1) background…

Extensive statistical data summarizes the characteristics and academic progress of transfer students from the Florida community colleges to the state university system in 1974, 1975 and 1976. Summary data are presented by sex, race, age, and university; date of entry, credits earned prior to entry; college of origin, and grade point average (GPA).…