Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Four of the Quality Education Program (regarding interest in school and learning) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Eight of the Quality Education Program (regarding vocational development) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

Categories of effective and ineffective behavior in regard to Goal Nine of the Quality Education Program (regarding student understanding of human accomplishment) are listed. Both the rationales for areas of effective student behavior and the categories of teacher strategies are also included. (See TM 001 375 for project description.) (MS)

THE SIMULATION OF A DESIRABLE COUNSELING PROCESS WITH EMPHASIS ON SYSTEMATIC COUNSELOR REINFORCEMENT OF NEGATIVE SELF-REFERENCE STATEMENTS BY STUDENTS WAS REPORTED. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT DEFINITE MEASURABLE COUNSELING PROCEDURES COULD BE EXPERIMENTALLY TESTED AND HAVE PRACTICAL CONSEQUENCES. THE VERBAL OPERANT CONDITIONING PARADIGM…

The problems of developing a low cost, quality institutional research program capable of longitudinal research, continuous broad bandwidth monitoring and data comparisons with other institutions, led to the development of the Hampshire Cycles Survey as an initial set of student quality of life indicators. Cycles is a multidimensional survey…

The Teacher Practices Observation Record (TPOR) and the Florida Climate and Control System (FLACCS) were reviewed to determine their appropriateness for measuring teacher competencies defined by teachers in Carroll County, Georgia. The TPOR looks at the way the teacher develops subject matter and thinking processes of pupils through the eyes of…

The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) operates approximately 222 schools, ranging from small 1-2 teacher day schools to large residential boarding schools. In September 1974, the BIA established student rights and due process procedures. All BIA schools were to develop a student rights and responsibility (SRR) program, initiated at the local school…

Described is a device for use by teachers who are deaf, to assist them with the improvement of their instruction through the Flanders Interaction Analysis method of assessing teachers' classroom performance. Explained, and illustrated with photographs, is an electrical device which, when attached to a videotape recording camera, displays a…

The purpose of this study was to explore some of the differential consequences of student acts of brinkmanship for the student role and the teacher role. A concomitant concern was to investigate the relationship between teacher perceptions of student brinkmanship and teacher pupil control ideology. Three hypotheses were tested in two junior high…

In this study, the cognitive dissonance theory (Aronson, 1972) was applied in an attempt to produce an attitude change by dissonance reduction; that is, to induce a student to behave in a manner contrary to his/her held attitude, thus becoming aware of the inconsistency in his/her behavior and attitude. The attitude would then change to be in line…

Author proposed to state general propositions sufficiently developed by the outcome of court cases to better understand the weight against which particular situations involving the physical punishment of a student may be tested. The rationale upon which authority for punishment of pupils has evolved was also reviewed. (Author/RK)

This article discusses how to recognize and cope with verbal insults and "games" that lower-class students may use to disrupt classroom activities. (CD)

Teaching practices in a total of 273 first and third grade Follow Through classrooms were examined in relation to (1) their consistency with the goals of seven sponsors' educational models, and (2) their effects on children's performance in areas ranging from reading and arithmetic achievement to nonverbal reasoning, independence and school…

Courts seldom overturn school board punishment of students for drug abuse; in fact, relatively few cases even reach the courts. Problems usually arise from poorly written statutes and board regulations that are either vague or inconsistent with statutory requirements. (JG)

A series of recent decisions, largely in federal courts since 1972, are examined for inferences that may encourage institutions to set forth more clearly the conditions that precede dismissal on academic or misbehavior grounds. Guidelines are suggested for administrative procedure and faculty practices such as grading. (JT)