This guide is designed to assist in evaluating the learning environment of a day care center through observation. For the purposes of this guide, various aspects of the day care program are divided into categories, which in turn are divided into issues (essentials for which data can be obtained by observation. Categories and issues are as follows:…

This research was initiated to determine whether the extent of a white child's first-hand contacts with black peers would influence his attitudes toward blacks. The subjects, 49 white, middle to upper class kindergarten children, all from two-parent homes with mothers who did not work outside the home, were divided into three groups: (A) children…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book in which the author researched the development of sociability among secondary school youth. The book sets forth, mainly on the basis of empirical studies, the outcome of educational action to develop sociability among the youth. The inquiry also embraced the…

Academic anxiety, person/group relations, and subject satisfaction were investigated in three secondary schools in various stages of curriculum reform: a traditional school, a school in which a short-course elective program was being implemented, and a school in which such a program was fully implemented. Attitude measures were completed by 482…

Describes a graduate seminar for in-service elementary school teachers which provided opportunities for meeting and observing peer teachers and deliberating on their teaching. (CM)

The authors review studies on the effects of these three types of learning situations on students' motivation, self-concept, attitudes, and psychological health. While concluding that all three can be appropriately used in the classroom, they give particular attention to the teacher's role in implementing cooperative activities. (SJL)

Job satisfactions of industrial arts teacher educators and the importance they place upon their professional role activities, work environment, departmental supervision, and relationships with colleagues were measured and assessed. The National Job Satisfaction Study Instrument (NJSSI) was developed by the investigators to collect information to…

FOCUS is an alternative school program for alienated high school students, designed to prevent them from dropping out. The key components of the program are discussed. (KC)

Social problem solving was taught to four groups of third and fourth graders: (1) control; (2) video modeling tapes; (3) tapes plus discussion; and (4) tapes plus role playing. Significant treatment effects were revealed on problem solving thinking, group interaction, and locus of control. (Author/GDC)

This research was an investigation of the effect on attitudinal and cognitive variables of minority or majority group membership in the classroom. Three categories of schools were selected, with high (80 percent), medium (50 percent), and low (20 percent) enrollments of migrant children, respectively. (Editor/RK)

Examines the problems of a gifted student going through elementary and secondary school and suggests some guidelines for parents and teachers in helping these students to satisfy their emotional needs. (RK)

Moral dilemmas are not confined to adults. They are also part and parcel of children's lives. The deputy director of the Schools Council Moral Education Project outlines the basis of the team's thinking and describes some of the materials being developed to help children make more considerate decisions. (Editor/RK)

Student cultures and the influence they have on students' growth and development have to be of interest to student development specialists unless the student development emphasis in higher education is to continue to be partial and incomplete. Presented at the American College Personnel Association Convention, March 1977, Denver, Colorado. (Author)

Fifty-six junior-high-school pupils were questioned about their attitudes toward mentally retarded and crippled children. (Author)

Describes how a teacher paired a low-ability, difficult migrant child with a high-ability child for classroom writing activities and how the low-ability child's writing improved measurably as a result. (SRT)