This text/curriculum guide promotes responsible attitudes and behavior toward health, wellness, and sexuality. The student workbook and instructor's manual dispel commonly held misconceptions about sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and present accurate information on their danger and prevention. The instructor's manual presents the goals of STD…

This study examined the effectiveness of selected coping strategies in dealing with teacher stress in the classroom setting. Factors contributing to teacher burnout, (e.g., class size, school size, student behavior), were also weighed. Data were gathered from 117 elementary and secondary teachers by means of a questionnaire, and the Maslach…

A study was conducted to analyze the role that nonverbal communication plays in classroom climate. A 40-item classroom communication climate questionnaire was developed, and administered to 76 students and 8 teachers to determine its reliability and validity. After several changes and deletions, the final version of the questionnaire was…

This guide provides information about various types of alternative education programs that address the educational and behavioral needs of disruptive students. The programs suggested are aimed at students whose behavior is so disruptive that they must be removed from classes or from the school for varying lengths of time. These programs provide…

Journal papers, dissertations and monographs on theory and research in sociometrics in education are cited. Forty references are examined in the areas of classroom socialization structure and skills, the stability of choices in friendship, attraction between individuals, and the relationship between learning styles and sociometry. Teacher roles in…

Sustained attention and inhibitory control of 15 nonhyperactive, learning disabled (LD) boys, 15 hyperactive but not LD boys, and 15 normal boys (11-12 years old) were studied, on teacher ratings of impulse control in the classroom and testing results. Coming to attention, decision making, sustained attention, and attention-concentration were…

A study investigated whether stress management could be enhanced among college students after the completion of a three credit personal health course. The subjects were 20 randomly selected male and female students enrolled in a personal health course at Emporia State University (Kansas). The 20 experimental subjects and the 15 members of a…

Described here are methods being worked out, inductively, to convert to quantifiable factors a set of 144 personal interaction variables observed during individual testing of a multi-cultural sample of 50 high school students referred for school problems. Factor analyses of subsets of variables and comparison of correlations among "factor…

The lack of high school and college mathematics is a major barrier to Native Americans, particularly women, seeking careers in technological fields. Mathematics should be studied because it is functional, is interesting, and expands an individual's universe. In the college classroom, the mathematics students find that classes are large; only 15%…

A study among black male junior high school students examined the degree to which school suspension was related to individual fit with the school environment. "Fit" referred to the congruence between a student's perceptions of school environment (as indicated by educational values, activity preferences, perceptions of racism and school problems,…

An investigation examined teachers' perceptions of nonverbal behaviors of their students within a developmental paradigm. A questionnaire was sent to 901 elementary and secondary school teachers from a 4-state area. It asked teachers to estimate the percentage of students who engaged in 24 nonverbal classroom behaviors of 4 general types:…

Recent research indicates there are a great many nonvisual effects of light on people. The control of rickets and the suntan effect are well understood. Less well known effects include synchronization of a number of physiological rhythms and prevention and control of infantile jaundice. Physiological and psychological effects also vary with the…

The student handbook was developed for use with students who intend to particpate in the Environmental Education Outdoor School Program in Santa Barbara County, California. After the form for the student to complete with personal information, i.e., name, school, etc., the handbook begins with a letter to the students, welcoming them to the…

Junior and senior students (N=175) majoring in elementary education, recreation, and forestry were given an ecological attitude inventory which measured: (1) level of environmental knowledge; (2) verbal, actual, and emotional commitment to the environment; and (3) the degree to which they spoke, behaved, and felt positively toward the environment.…

Spider World is an interactive program designed to help individuals with no previous computer experience to learn the fundamentals of programming. The program emphasizes cognitive tasks which are central to programming and provides significant problem-solving opportunities. In Spider World, the user commands a hypothetical robot (called the…