This investigation was conducted to determine if 5-year-old students randomly chosen from an open classroom for 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds communicated at random across sex, race, and age groups. The classroom was composed of nine learning centers and was organized around the following activities: math, dramatic play, blocks, art, reading, listening,…

Relationships were studied between classroom racial balance (the evenness with which minority group students are distributed over classes in a grade) and the interracial attitudes of grade 3 students. Students took three attitude tests designed to measure different components of children's interracial attitudes: the Sociometric Choice Measure, the…

Designed to accompany an inservice teacher training program, this comprehensive syllabus presents 12 lessons on behavior problems which each include (with the exception of the first and last lessons) a narrative presentation of instructional material, a relevant case study with treatment, and a selected bibliography. The first lesson serves as an…

The hypothesis of this 3-year study was that contact with supportive influences (peer leaders, personal counseling interviews, group counseling sessions, and warm, sincere, interesting teachers) would improve the academic performance of underachieving secondary school students. The subjects, 440 seventh, ninth, and 10th graders from the Kalamazoo…

In a pilot study based on a technique to assess the dimensions of self concept held by young children, 38 lower socioeconomic status Negro and 36 upper-middle socioeconomic status white four-year-old children were given the Brown-IDS Self Concept Referents Test, and retested after three weeks; there was a relatively high level of reliability in…

This paper examines the power of particular affect and rejection socioquestions to produce characteristic patterns across all the sociometric choices of 576 fifth-graders in 18 classrooms. Of particular concern are the degrees of centrality exhibited in response to socioquestions which pertain to academic competence and failure and the overall…

Reviewed in the paper are studies on college and university living, facts and proposals from persons cognizant of residential living, and information about present residential accommodations of students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The aim of the paper is given to be collecting previously unknown data about housing of…

The research reported in this paper attempts to measure the contribution of schooling to the learning of the norm of universalism, the acceptance of which by any person implies his willingness to be treated, under certain conditions, as a member of a category rather than as a unique individual. Because the learning of universalism is seen as…

The aim of the study was a search for factors influencing the achievement of black and white elementary pupils in urban schools of varying racial and social class composition. Key variables tested include school racial composition (current and cumulative), school social observers, and the interracial friendliness of classmates as evidenced by…

VARIATIONS IN THE INFORMAL SOCIAL SYSTEMS OF 20 HIGH SCHOOLS, THE SOURCES OF THESE VARIATIONS, AND THE EFFECTS OF SUCH VARIATIONS ON THE ACADEMIC ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR OF STUDENTS WERE STUDIED. TWO RELATED ASPECTS OF THE SCHOOL SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS RECEIVED MAJOR RESEARCH EMPHASIS--(1) THE CHARACTERISTIC GLOBAL DEMANDS, FEATURES, AND EMPHASES OF…

Designed by the Ilinois Bilingual Evaluation Center as a pilot project, the purpose of this study was to explore the process or nature of events in a bilingual classroom and to investigate the feasibility of using observational techniques to examine this process in an evaluation context. The subjects for the study were three children of Spanish…

Using "Patterns of Childrearing," by Sears, Maccoby and Levin (1957) as a starting point, this paper touches on the schism between developmental and social psychology and attempts to assess the progress of research in social development during the past quarter century with respect to five major perspectives that are at once evolutionary,…

Equal status within the contact situation, shared goals, cooperate dependence in reaching these goals, and the support of authorities, law or custom are the criteria which Allport (1954) argued were vital for promoting positive interracial attitudes and behavior. The study reported here investigates the development of interracial interaction…

The proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Special Interest Group on Research on Women are compiled. The symposium focused on examining the factors which contribute to low incidence of women in both professional and leadership roles. Six papers present research gathered from cross-cultural,…

Deidentification is the phenomenon whereby siblings are defined as different or contrasting. In pathological deidentification, the natural flow of sibling conflict and reconciliation seems obstructed as one sibling is assigned the fixed identity of "devil," who constantly harasses the other, "angel," sibling. A clinical…