This student-oriented instructional booklet provides strategies for students for notebook organization, time management, note-taking, reading and highlighting assignments, homework completion, and test-taking. The booklet's first section, "Preparing for Classes," offers tips for keeping a notebook, an assignment sheet, a calendar, a daily and…

Chapter 1 of this monograph provides an overview of student evaluation in physical education. A discussion is presented on the purposes of evaluation: diagnosing, grouping, motivating, grading, and programing. Included in the overview are sample forms for evaluation breakdown for seven units of a physical education course and a student cumulative…

A literature review focused on the effectiveness of ability grouping in kindergarten through the sixth grade. A total of 28 annotations were organized in terms of: (1) types of grouping; (2) effects of ability grouping on behavior, self-concept, and friendship; and (3) academic achievement. Several studies found that students assigned to high…

The prohibition of student plagiarism by educational institutions creates problems associated with: (1) communicating acceptable practices for citing the works of others; (2) establishing appropriate penalties for those who do not follow the announced standards; (3) ensuring, through due process, the protection of the rights of those accused of…

This document contains testimonies of witnesses and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine alternative programs designed to provide education to disruptive and delinquent students who may be a threat to other students and teachers in the regular school. Statements are included from Senator Hatch, who presents…

Two research projects were conducted to assess the relationship between teachers' views on the acceptability of intervention strategies for dealing with behavior problems and their classroom use of such interventions. One study with student teachers (N=72) investigated acting-out and passive behavior problems and the acceptability of behavioral,…

The Classroom Management Improvement Study (CMIS) tested the effectiveness of research-based classroom management principles and strategies in elementary school classrooms. Participating in the study were 41 teachers, divided into a treatment group that received a CMIS teacher's manual and participated in two workshops, and a control group. Half…

This study examined how readily teachers learn the components of the troubleshooting model of Tillman (1982) via a guided design approach, the consistency of the language of the model with the language of teachers, and the concerns teachers express about guided design as an instructional innovation. Forty-five teachers enrolled in a graduate level…

Maryland's Perryville High School Positive Disciplinary Project involves both actively disruptive students referred by the administration and students who have demonstrated the potential to be disruptive who are referred by teachers, guidance counselors, or parents. In either instance, the student becomes a part of the program for the entire…

This manual, an update of the 1979 publication, "Pennsylvania Guidelines for Student Discipline," is intended for use by Pennsylvania school districts as they review or revise their student discipline codes. It presents a structure for responses to student misconduct, which lists student misbehaviors by type and assigns appropriate…

The purpose of this study was to determine the needs related to nutrition education in the state of Hawaii. Twenty-four-hour diet recalls were obtained from 932 students in grades 5, 8, and 11. Larger percentages of older children than younger children reported diets poor in nutritional quality. Cholesterol intake of males increased with age and…

This paper describes conceptualization and research on student motivation to learn, which is treated as the ideal motivational state for students in classroom settings and defined as the tendency of students to engage in academic activities with the intention of trying to get the intended academic benefits (knowledge and skills). Student…

Argues that the McCarthy era, the civil rights struggle, and the Vietnam War all provided stimuli that shook up national identity and made belonging in this society questionable: unfortunately, the vast majority of those who had been shaken up found ersatz belonging--few became politically conscious. (Author/JM)

Evaluations of workshops offered to primary teachers in Ontario, Canada, show encouraging changes in student learning achievement and claimed behavior. (Author/RH)

Teachers from 20 traditional literacy (teaching 3 R's) and 12 functional literacy (developmental oriented) centers in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan, India were studied. Data are analyzed regarding personal characteristics, educational background, the role of supervisors, teaching aids, social participation, recruitment and selections, student…