English methods and practices for teaching writing differ little from that of most American Schools. But they show that learning and fun can go together. (MR)

Teacher performance evaluations should be teaching learning centered; planned and continuous; cooperatively designed and implemented. (Author/AF)

Preschool play behavior of today was compared with play norms collected more than 40 years ago. Present play behavior was judged to be significantly less social. (NH)

The results suggest that the more time nurses spend in their school buildings, the more likely teachers are to observe health problems among their pupils. The data do not support the existence of relationships of health observation practice with use of the teacher-nurse conference, or nursing preparation or experience. (CJ)

Natural observations of 15- to 20-month-old nursery school children showed that children exhibited more social behaviors involving seven categories of contact (smiling, going towards, speaking to, etc.) after eating together around a communal table than before, and showed less aggressive behvior. Further research is recommended. (NH)

Research supported by a Public Health Service Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health and a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Work sampling is a managerial accounting technique which provides information about the efficiency of an operation. This analysis determines what tasks are being performed durinq a period of time to ascertain if time and effort are being allocated efficiently. (SK)

Investigated whether, in a sample of 30 infants, anger could reliably be observed in facial expressions as early as seven months of age. Also considered was the influence of several variables on anger responses: infants' familiarity with the frustrator, repetition of trials, and sex of the child. (Author/RH)