A basic skills program designed for first- to sixth-grade students who were underachieving in reading or arithmetic was evaluated. The program was designed to raise the students' levels of achievement and to improve their attitudes toward learning. A staff development program designed to introduce teachers to new methods of teaching basic skills,…

Education of the child, including preschool education, has been and still is a topic of great concern to many people. Translation of this concern into constructive programs for early childhood education is a profound problem, one that is debated often and emotionally. There is a dichotomy between those who favor educational practices based on…

In a three-year study to determine the effectiveness of additional counseling and guidance in aiding realistic educational and occupational choice by junior high school students, the 721 members of the seventh-grade classes of three Muskegon junior-high schools were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The Ohio Student Inventory…

In order for adult education to be successfully applied in other countries, it is important that an understanding of the people's traditional background and educational attitudes is acquired. A continuing educator must also be a continuing learner. In Africa, education is considered a continuing or recurrent process throughout life serving to…

This paper argues that teachers of remedial students must make their students create their own order and meanings which may be at variance with the established order around them, but are valid nevertheless. Current research stresses the need to develop a positive self-concept, particularly in remedial students and in those whose cultural values…

Survey-71 was initiated to learn more about graduates of State University College in Fredonia, New York. Data was compiled on how students viewed their college education, their activities and interests while attending Fredonia, the influence of a college education on their lives and activities after leaving college. This document contains…

This study is an exploration of the patterns of consensus and dissensus among the country's leaders in their attitudes, opinions, perceptions, and reservations about social and economic changes through education. It is a case study of a country where the ideas of education playing an important role in modernization is only partially accepted. How…

Reading is a subject about which many people have opinions. Therefore it is necessary for those in the field to determine a perspective through which to examine issues. Such a perspective implies recognizing diverse theories about educational processes and human development and analyzing them, creating a balance among the cognitive and emotional…

This questionnaire is part of the New England Educational Assessment Project, which seeks to promote greater recognition of the importance of social studies and of the contributions made by social studies teachers to education as a whole. Administered to all secondary social studies teachers in the six New England states, the questionnaire has the…

The Student Utah Education Association has prepared a set of 21 recommendations for improvement of teacher education at both university and public school levels, with brief notes on the rationale behind each and the action which should be taken. Those relating to teacher education institutions include: the establishment of student-faculty or…

In this longitudinal study of rural adolescent males (Negro and white), 3 hypotheses were tested: (1) that occupational and educational aspirations of these youth will either be stable at a low level or change downward from higher levels over time, (2) that Negro youth will experience significantly more downward deflection of status projections…

This study, the third in a series, is designed to assist both the public schools and the University in developing fast, efficient techniques for needs assessment, whereby the programs of both public education and higher education may be improved to meet the needs of the clientele that each serves. The first study, involving 46 school districts,…

A questionnaire, "How Students Perceive Their School," was completed by 4,694 students, chosen at random, in grades 11, 12, and 13 of the Senior Secondary Schools in North York. The questionnaire was comprised of 39 closed-ended questions, excluding grade and sex, and 9 open-ended queries on which students were asked to comment if they…

This report is another in the series being prepared on the numerous investigations comprising the U. S. Metric Study, by the U. S. National Bureau of Standards. This report concerns the effects of increasing worldwide use of the metric system on education in the United States. Its purpose is to present the educational advantages and disadvantages…

This absolute scale contains nine times, each of which consists of a 100 millimeter vertical line with small division marks every 25 millimeters with the words "high" at the top and "low" at the bottom of the line. Above each of the vertical lines is a word or phrase. For the second grade scale these words are: arithmetic, counting, adding,…